Rebel Yell (roller coaster)
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| Location | Kings Dominion |
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| Park section | The Grove |
| Coordinates | 37°50′15.5″N 77°26′41.9″W / 37.837639°N 77.444972°WCoordinates: 37°50′15.5″N 77°26′41.9″W / 37.837639°N 77.444972°W |
| Status | Operating |
| Opened | May 3, 1975 |
| Type | Wood - Racing |
| Manufacturer | Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters |
| Designer | John C. Allen |
| Track layout | Twin |
| Height | 85 ft (26 m) |
| Drop | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Length | 3,368 ft (1,027 m) |
| Max speed | 56 mph (90 km/h) |
| Duration | 2:15 |
| Max vertical angle | 50° |
| Capacity | 1200 riders per hour |
| Max G force | 4.2 |
| Height restriction | 3 ft 8 in (112 cm) |
| Rebel Yell at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Rebel Yell at RCDB | |
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Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. It opened with the park in 1975.
Rebel Yell is a racing roller coaster featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other. Its design was inspired by the Racer, another wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion's sister park, Kings Island, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In turn, Rebel Yell's design was the basis for Thunder Road, at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina.
There is one red and one blue train on each side. When only running one train on each side, an effort is made to run one train of each color. There are often fun spirited arguments on the lift hill about which train is better.
The Rebel Yell received the ACE Coaster Landmark award on June 20, 2003.[1]
[edit] History
- Rebel Yell originally paralleled Lake Charles, a large man-made lake on the northwest corner of Kings Dominion. Two thirds of the lake was drained in the early 1990s when the space was needed for construction of a water park. (The Anaconda roller coaster still runs over and under the remainder of the lake.) The roller coaster now divides the water park in half with a walkway running under it.
- The trains on one side of Rebel Yell were turned to face backward from 1993 until 2007. Beginning in 2008, both trains were faced forward again so that the ride operates under the train manufacturer's specifications.
- The ride's name comes from The Rebel Yell, a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. At the end of the ride, the trains pass through a tunnel that reverberates with a sound that resembles screaming.
- Rebel Yell was featured in the 1977 movie Rollercoaster.
- Portions of the ride were re-tracked for the 2010 season.
- Seat dividers and individual lap bars were added in the early 1990s.
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