Rebel Yell (roller coaster)

Infobox roller coaster
name=Rebel Yell


caption=The lift hill
location=Kings Dominion
section=
type=Wood
type2=Racing
type3=
status=Open
opened=May 3, 1975
closed=
manufacturer=Philadelphia Toboggan Company
designer=John C. Allen
model=
track=Twin
lift=
height=85
drop=81
length=3368
speed=56
inversions=
duration=2:15
angle=50
capacity=1200
cost=
acceleration=
gforce=4.2
restriction=44
rcdb_number=88

Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. It opened with the park in 1975.

Rebel Yell is a racing roller coaster featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other. Its design was inspired by the Racer, another wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion's sister park, Kings Island, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In turn, Rebel Yell's design was the basis for Thunder Road, at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina.

There is one red and one blue train on each side. When only running one train on each side, an effort is made to run one train of each color.

It is an ACE Coaster Landmark. [ [http://www.aceonline.org/CoasterAwards/?type=3 ACE Coaster Landmark Awards] ]

History

*Rebel Yell originally paralleled Lake Charles, a large man-made lake on the northwest corner of Kings Dominion. Two thirds of the lake was drained in the early 1990s when the space was needed for construction of a water park. (The Anaconda roller coaster still runs over the remainder of the lake.) The roller coaster now divides the water park in half with a walkway running under it.
*The trains on one side of Rebel Yell were turned to face backwards from 1993 until 2007, when it was faced forward again due to many complaints of riders with back problems.
*The ride's name comes from The Rebel Yell, a battlecry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. At the end of the ride, the trains pass through a tunnel that reverberates with a sound that resembles screaming.
*Rebel Yell was featured in the 1977 movie, "Rollercoaster".

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