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Racer Coaster at Kennywood Park

1950

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Racer Coaster at Kennywood Park
  • Title
  • Racer Coaster at Kennywood Park
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F25.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F25.I01
  • Description
  • Children riding the “Racer” at Kennywood Park. The Racer, built by John Miller in the late 1920s, was the third roller coaster at Kennywood and replaced the park’s original Racer. The Racer is 73 feet tall and 2,250 feet long and is the last remaining continuous-track racing roller coaster in the United States. It is a single-track ride leaving from the right-hand side of the station and returning on the left-hand side.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Racer (Roller coaster: West Mifflin, Pa.)
    Roller coasters--Pennsylvania--West Mifflin.
    Kennywood Park (West Mifflin, Pa.)
    Children--Pennsylvania--West Mifflin.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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