Cedar Creek Mine Ride
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Cedar Creek Mine Ride
Cedar Point · US · Arrow Development Mine Train
“A mine train skirts the lagoon, carrying Cedar Point’s 1969 pride.”
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Fast facts
- Cedar Creek Mine Ride opened at Cedar Point in 1969. sixflags.com
- The ride was built by Arrow Development as a Mine Train coaster. en.wikipedia.org
- Its height is 48 feet, or 14.6 metres. en.wikipedia.org
- Its top speed is 42 miles per hour, or 68 kilometres per hour. en.wikipedia.org
- The course has no inversions. en.wikipedia.org
- Its listed capacity is 2,400 riders per hour. en.wikipedia.org
- The reported construction cost was $1.5 million. en.wikipedia.org
The story of Cedar Creek Mine Ride
In 1969, Cedar Point gave Frontier Town a new centrepiece: Cedar Creek Mine Ride. For the visitor walking back from the midway, here was a modern steel mine train with a frontier name, set among the park’s western streets and waterside scenery. sixflags.com· sixflags.com
Arrow Development supplied the machinery, part of the company’s early generation of tubular-steel coaster work. The ride’s two chain lifts, mine building, turns, and lagoon-side drop gave Cedar Point a family-scaled achievement with the sound and ceremony of a railroad outing. coasterpedia.net· sixflags.com
The figures are modest by later Cedar Point standards, and that is part of its character: 48 feet high, 42 miles per hour, and no inversions. Its work is not to conquer the skyline, but to carry travellers low over the water and back through the trees. en.wikipedia.org· coasterpedia.net
For its fiftieth anniversary season in 2019, the ride received fresh touches including station music, first-tunnel effects, and queue scenery. It remains in operation, one of Cedar Point’s older coasters still welcoming summer passengers. coasterpedia.net· en.wikipedia.org
Sources
- sixflags.com Preferred source
- en.wikipedia.org Acceptable source
- sixflags.com Preferred source
- coasterpedia.net Preferred source