Status Operating Inversions 0 Max speed 80 km/h Capacity 1,600 people/hour | Opening date May 23, 1938 Designer Ed Vettel Height 23 m Opened 23 May 1938 Track length 884 m | |
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Model Out and Back roller coaster Similar Toboggan, Ravine Flyer II, Kentucky Rumbler, The Raven, Cornball Express | ||
Blue Streak is a wooden roller coaster built in 1937 at Conneaut Lake Park in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. It is the only wooden coaster operating in the park and the biggest. Blue Streak follows an out and back design. It is the 17th oldest wooden roller coaster in the United States, and it is one of two shallow coasters designed by Ed Vettel still operating. The second is The Cyclone at Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado. This Blue Streak at Conneaut Lake Park first opened in 1938. The layout of the Blue Streak is very simple out and back style roller coaster. The trains immediately enters a tunnel in the shape of an 'S" and enters a 77 foot high climb up the lift hill. The train plummets down the first drop reaching up to top speed of 50 Mph and into a flat section lasting for about a couple of seconds. The flat section is followed by 2 medium size hills following a wide turnaround section. After the turnaround, there is the uphill turn. The uphill turn slams riders against their seat. The ride then follows 4 smaller camel back hills, providing airtime, then entering the break run and making a 360 degree turn back into the platform/station.
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The Blue Streak underwent major renovations in 1997, 2002, and 2010. In 2002 its original 1938 trains were brought back to replace the silver National Amusement Devices trains used since the 1960s. As of the park opening in 2011, the Vettel trains are no longer used pending repairs and restraint updates. The turn around section of track was rebuild (date needed). The first drop of the ride was also repaired and re-tracked for the 2016 season. The ride received salvaged lumber from the Geauga Lake Raging Wolf Bobs coaster.
The Blue Streak has been opened and closed many times. The dates are as follows,
On June 24, 2010, the American Coaster Enthusiasts donated a plaque that declared the Blue Streak a Coaster Classic and a Coaster Landmark.
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