CBC side friction?

If the Crystal Beach Cyclone was a side friction(Im pretty sure it was), how did it stay on the track with no up-stops on it?

Cause the trains were realy cookin with air-time on it going over those hills especialy through the bunny hops under the lift.

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It had upstops.  They would have needed more than a nurse if it didn't!!

This is what side-friction track looks like: http://www.coastergallery.com/GA/L06.html
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I know but even on videos and pics I see it as a side friction. It looks so much like one.

How did it have upstops if it was s-friction?

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At least I dont call a vertical loop a "loopdie-loop"!

It was not a side friction. Never.
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I don't know what you are referring to in regards to it being a side friction coaster.  It wasn't.  What picture have you seen that makes it so?  Just wondering....  Perhaps Ronald Anderson, with his expertise, might join in on the conversation with the excellent book knowledge he has of those older/legendary rides.
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RememberIdora said:

How did it have upstops if it was s-friction?

Again, it wasn't! (and never was) Look at it:
Crystal Beach Cyclone
For comparison: Regular coaster
Side friction: Leap the Dips

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How about a comprimise? It was a side friction with upstops :)
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Interesting BigKirby, I didn't know Millennium Force was a side friction! (Or every other coaster for that matter) ;)
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Yup. You just have to look at it a different way :)
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The other coaster at Crystal Beach , the Giant Coaster, was a true side friction coaster. It had track wheels and side wheels,but no up stops of any kind. It was that way until the day the park closed for good. I know, because I had ridden on it. It did come up off the track, you could feel it and hear it.

The Cyclone, like all of Harry Traver's creations, had up stops, although they weren't wheels. He used just a heavy piece of steel that engaged the under running steel "only when nescessary."

The CB Cyclone was not a side friction coaster.It had flanged wheels( like railroad train wheels) with upstops.Two coasters that I know of with this arangement that are currently operating are the PNE Coaster and Coaster Thrill Ride at the Puyallup Fair.What is unique about Coaster TR the coaster structure itself is a John Miller design and the trains are Prior& Church trains that came from a defunct coaster in Vancouver,BC(Happyland Dipper 1925-1947)

There is an excellent drawing of the wheel/upstop arangement that Harry Traver used on his coasters in the book "Harry Traver,Legends of Terror".This book may be still available through ACE.
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The Teddy Bear at Strickers Grove has flanged wheels.  I linked to a pic above.
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In David Bennet's book named Roller Coaster: Wooden and Steel Coasters, Twisters, and Corkscrews

Page 30 has the original plans for Upstop wheels designed by John Miller.  Patented on February 2, 1922, before Traver. 

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Hey GemenI has no upstops just a bar and we all know what kind of air you can get on it.

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Those are upstops, Magnumforce (just not upstop wheels), although it is an interesting point. 

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But it has the rasied guiding side track with the acute track arms.

I know now its not a side-frictionb but why the reaised sides?

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At least I dont call a vertical loop a "loopdie-loop"!

I'm thinking to accomidate the flanged wheels.
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