![]() ![]() The coal mines in the area had a basic problem: how to cheaply and effectively transport the coal from the mines on top of the mountain to the port in Mach Chunk, some 18 miles downhill. The Mauch Chunk Railway was devised not as a pleasure ride, but as a transportation system for the coal mining industry. ![]() ![]() The Mauch Chunk Railway is the American beginning of the roller coaster. First, a bit of history of the roller coaster. Does this sound like good fun to you? If you are one of the millions of people who visit theme parks each year then read on, you are certainly not alone. Many people love nothing more that going on a day out and strapping themselves to a steel train and plunging through a heart-pounding steel maze.
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