Dual-tracked roller coaster

Riders slap hands on the Racer at Kennywood

A dual-tracked roller coaster is a roller coaster which consists of two tracks. There are three types of dual-tracked roller coasters: racing, dueling and Möbius Loop roller coasters.

Not all parks choose to operate both sides of their dual-tracked coasters; Rolling Thunder and Colossus are two examples of this. Other parks operate one side frontwards and one side backwards.

Variants

Dragon Challenge in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a dueling inverted roller coaster.

A racing roller coaster consists of two separate roller coasters that travels along parallel or mirrored tracks to simulate a race between the trains. The coaster trains travel along tracks just a few feet apart from one another. They often get close enough for riders to reach out and slap hands with riders on the opposite train, though this is extremely dangerous and can result in ejection from the park.

A dueling roller coaster features two (or more) roller coasters, usually with a similar layout, built close to each other. The rides are designed to do just as the name indicates: to duel. The coaster's layout often consists of strategic maneuvering to produce near-misses between the two coaster trains, designed to induce a greater adrenaline rush for the rider than a stand alone roller coaster.

A Möbius loop roller coaster can be either a racing roller coaster or a dueling roller coaster. Its unique feature is that there is one continuous track instead of two separate ones. As a result, the station that a train leaves is not the same one to which it will return.

Examples

Coaster Name	Park	Location	Track	Type	Builder	Year Opened	Notes
American Eagle	Six Flags Great America	Gurnee, Illinois	Wooden	Racing	Intamin	1981	Tallest, fastest, and longest racing wooden roller coaster in the world.[1]
Batman & Robin: The Chiller	Six Flags Great Adventure	Jackson, New Jersey	Steel	Dueling	Premier Rides	1997	Closed in 2007, currently in storage
Battlestar Galactica	Universal Studios Singapore	Sentosa, Singapore	Steel	Dueling	Vekoma	2010
Colossus	Six Flags Magic Mountain	Valencia, California	Wooden	Racing	International Amusement Devices	1978
Dauling Dragon	Happy Valley, Wuhan	Hubei, China	Wooden	Racing	Martin & Vleminckx	2012	China's first racing roller coaster. Designed by The Gravity Group.
Dragon Challenge	Islands of Adventure	Orlando, Florida	Steel	Dueling	Bolliger & Mabillard	1999	Although this ride is listed as dueling, the individual tracks do not run at the same time due to a variety of incidents. Inverted roller coaster.
Gemini	Cedar Point	Sandusky, Ohio	Steel	Racing	Arrow Dynamics	1978	With wood structure. Tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world when built.
Grand National	Blackpool Pleasure Beach	Blackpool, Lancashire	Wooden	Möbius Loop	Charles Paige	1935
Gwazi	Busch Gardens Tampa Bay	Tampa, Florida	Wooden	Dueling	Great Coasters International	1999
Joris en de Draak	Efteling	Kaatsheuvel	Wooden	Racing	Great Coasters International	2010
Lightning Racer	Hersheypark	Hershey, Pennsylvania	Wooden	Racing	Great Coasters International	2000
Matterhorn Bobsleds	Disneyland	Anaheim, California	Steel		Arrow Dynamics	1959	Weaves around and through a replica of the Matterhorn.
Milky Way	Mitsui Greenland	Arao, Kumamoto	Steel	Racing	Senyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.	1991	Stand-up roller coaster
Le Monstre	La Ronde	Montréal, Québec	Wooden	Racing	William Cobb & Associates	1985/86	One track opened in 1985, the other in 1986
Montaña Rusa	La Feria Chapultepec Magico	Mexico City	Wooden	Möbius Loop	National Amusement Device Company	1964
The Racer	Kings Island	Mason, Ohio	Wooden	Racing	Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters	1972	Credited for starting the "Second Coaster Boom". One train formerly ran backwards until 2008. Worlds fastest (1972–1976)
Racer	Kennywood	West Mifflin, Pennsylvania	Wooden	Möbius Loop	Charile Mach	1927
Ramses	Parque de Atracciones de Zaragoza	Zaragoza, Zaragoza	Steel	Racing	Safeco	2002
Rebel Yell	Kings Dominion	Doswell, Virginia	Wooden	Racing	Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters	1975	One train formerly ran backwards until 2008.
Rolling Thunder	Six Flags Great Adventure	Jackson, New Jersey	Wooden	Racing	William Cobb & Associates	1979	Ride has two tracks in a figure 8 pattern, but the hills are arranged differently on each track. Standing but not operating.
Stampida	PortAventura	Salou, Tarragona	Wooden	Racing	Custom Coasters International	1997
Space Mountain	Magic Kingdom	Lake Buena Vista, Florida	Steel		Arrow Dynamics	1975	Oldest operating roller coaster in Florida.
Thunder Road	Carowinds	Charlotte, North Carolina	Wooden	Racing	Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters	1976	Crosses the North Carolina/South Carolina state line. One train formerly ran backwards until 2008.
Twisted Twins	Kentucky Kingdom	Louisville, Kentucky	Wooden	Racing	Custom Coasters International	1998	Standing but not operating.
Vertigorama	Parque de la Ciudad	Buenos Aires City	Steel	Racing	Intamin	1983	Standing but not operating. Track was completed but electrical was never finished.
Vleermuis	Plopsaland	De Panne, West Flanders	Steel	Racing	Caripro	2000	Suspended roller coaster.
Windjammer Surf Racers	Knott's Berry Farm	Buena Park, California	Steel	Racing	TOGO	1997	Closed in 2000.

References

External links

• Möbius Loop roller coaster at RCDB