Status Closed Closing date 1912 (1912) Manufacturer Edwin Prescott Closed 1912 Inversions 1 | Opening date 1901 (1901) Type Steel Designer Edward A. Green Opened 1901 Material Steel | |
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Loop the Loop (also known by some sources as the Flip Flap Railway) was a dual-tracked steel roller coaster which operated on Young's Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey from 1901 until 1912. Loop the Loop was one of the earliest looping roller coasters in the United States.
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History
Loop the Loop was designed and built in 1901 by Edward A. Green and Edwin Prescott on Young's Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was the goal of Green and Prescott to create a looping coaster which would not be subject to the same extreme g-forces which plagued Lina Beecher's earlier Flip Flap Railway on Coney Island, New York.
The Loop the Loop on Young's Million Dollar Pier attracted considerable attention, and was promoted in a number of ways by John L. Young, the owner of the pier. For example, Young commissioned a photograph contest which offered a $40 prize for the best photograph of the new coaster (as well as numerous lesser prizes). Toy replicas were also made of the coaster.
Ride experience
Like its sister coaster in Coney Island, Loop the Loop was a racing coaster with parallel tracks which each progressed through a single vertical loop. Another common factor was that both coasters incorporated an oval loop to reduce the g-forces produced by the earlier Coney Island Flip Flap Railway which utilized a circular loop. Despite the design improvements and substantial improvement in g-forces, however, the ride was reported to be unpleasant. This, paired with the ride's low capacity (only four individuals could ride the coaster every five minutes), meant that the Loop the Loop at Atlantic City was ultimately a failure.