Rebel Yell (roller coaster)

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Rebel Yell
The lift hill
Location	Kings Dominion
Type	Wood - Racing
Status	Open
Opened	May 3, 1975
Manufacturer	Philadelphia Toboggan Company
Designer	John C. Allen
Track layout	Twin
Height	85 feet (25.9 m)
Length	3,368 feet (1,026.6 m)
Max speed	56 mile per hour (90.1 km/h)
Duration	2:15
Max Vertical Angle	50 degrees
Capacity	1200 riders per hour
Height Restriction	44 inches (111.8 cm)
Rebel Yell at RCDB
Pictures of Rebel Yell at RCDB

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. It is one of the few racing roller coasters with a backward-facing train on one set of tracks. 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.

[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 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 backwards in the mid-1990s.
The ride's name comes from The Rebel Yell, a battlecry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
Rebel Yell was featured in the 1977 movie, "Rollercoaster".

Roller coasters at Kings Dominion
Anaconda - Avalanche - Flight of Fear - Grizzly - Hurler - HyperSonic XLC - The Italian Job: Turbo Coaster - Rebel Yell - Ricochet - Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster - Shockwave - Taxi Jam - Volcano, The Blast Coaster