Steel Force (roller coaster)
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| Location | Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom |
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| Type | Steel - Sit down |
| Status | Open |
| Opened | May 30, 1997 |
| Manufacturer | D.H. Morgan Manufacturing |
| Designer | Steve Okamoto |
| Height | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Drop | 205 ft (62.5 m) |
| Length | 5600 ft (1706.9 m) |
| Max speed | 75 mph (120.7 km/h) |
| Duration | 3:00 |
| Capacity | 1700 riders per hour |
| Cost | US$10,000,000 |
| Max G force | 2.5 |
| Steel Force at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Steel Force at RCDB | |
Steel Force is a roller coaster at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Built by Morgan Manufacturing and designed by Steve Okamoto, it opened in 1997 as a coaster just barely qualifying as a hypercoaster, its lift hill being exactly 200 feet tall. It is 5,600 feet in length and has a 205-foot first drop and a top speed of 75 mph. Gives the rider over 2.5 G's at the bottom of the first hill. Two 120ft tunnels and a 510-degree helix accentuate Steel Force’s high speed thrills. After its midcourse brake run, the coaster has four “camelback” humps to provide airtime on its return to the station.
It takes three minutes for 36 passengers seated two by three in one of three trains to ride the 2000 tons of steel and 12,150,000 pounds of concrete footings held together with 2,742 anchor bolts. Steel Force provides for 1700 riders an hour.
When Steel Force was opened it laid claim to being the longest, fastest, and tallest roller coaster on the East Coast, since losing that title it has been ranked among the top 10 steel coasters in the world.
Steel Force’s logo was originally intended for the stand-up coaster Mantis, which had opened at Cedar Point a year earlier. Mantis initially was to be named “Banshee,” but had its name changed for sensitivity reasons. The logo was no longer appropriate after the name change, so Dorney Park adopted it for its Steel Force coaster a year later.
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