West View Park Dips recreation - NoLimits 2
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- Dips was a roller coaster designed by Edward Vettel that operated at West View Park in West View, Pennsylvania, from 1909-1977. It originally opened as a side-friction coaster but was modified for the 1929 season to run with upstops. The layout was changed slightly, and the famous turnaround was added. The version I recreated is that modified one. The coaster closed with the park in 1977.
As an adult, this ride is so tame, but as a kid, it was thrilling......especially that curve near Route 19.
I rode that coaster many times. Very accurate reproduction.
Close, but the turn is off
First hill was a bit higher. Loved the video.
The dips @ westviewpark: my first love!
...since 1957, no other ride gave me quite the same thrill !!
...from tunnel to turnaround curve to surprise final drop, the dips never ceased to amuse & amaze its riders with speed/surprises and exhilaration
.....a great coaster, by any measure; often think of it as an old friend!
My parents when at the park... I never made it there but I Dad told me about the roller-coaster 🎢 that went down the valley... amazing👏
That's be the Racing Whippet, unless he was referring to the tunnel on the Dips
The last few bunny hills you were out of your seat. very nice memory.Thanks
No other wooden coaster in the country had a better designed tunnel than the Dips. It was truly unique!
It was great, but the Coney Tornado and Santa Cruz Giant Dipper were great too!
My stomach remembered every twist, turn, and dip. GREAT RECREATION.
That's literally in my backyard. Great job!
Me too! Where did you live!?
@@joeheid4757 above Giant Eagle.
@@rhomis Not quite my backyard. I was born and lived my 1st 5 years on Waverly Ave. Look it up. I saw Danceland burn down. I'm old enough, barely. I walked to WVP my entire life. Great memories.
@@joeheid4757 great memories for sure. Nothing like a school picnic at that park all day with your friends.
My pap worked at the park until it closed. Thank you for this.. will definitely be sending it to him 💞
I remember it being called "The Big Dipper" and the first hill was a lot higher. I know, I lost my glasses and couldn't see to drive home!
Nope. It was always the Dips, never Big Dipper. Kennywood had a junior coaster, the Dipper.
That would have had some crazy airtime
Took me back 65 years. Remembered COD curve, last dip and sounds.
Overall it is nicely done. Getting the Horseshoe right will always be a nightmare as it just didn't photograph good.
I would like to add some suggestions though, especially about that backend. The Camelbacks were a bit shorter than the preceding hill, by a whole support section. And the top of the turnback was near identical in height to the second camel hump. It was more of an airtime run through the camelbacks into the turnback. The drops are a bit light, I would consider another 5° to the steepness of the dual camelbacks, the preceding hill and the comming up into the turnback.
Now, the turnback is actually banked not a flat rise to the peak. The track banking started about halfway up into the turnback. The train hit that banking hard enough that it required trim brakes. That was why I suggested the alterations, to ramp up the speed a bit. I have a nice picture the camelbacks that show the lead in hill and peak of the turnback. If you were interested in revisiting this project.
Take this all in the spirit it is intended to be. Just trying to be helpful as this was my white whale of coasters. The park closed before I got the nerve to ride it (I'm deadly afraid of heights) and I spent endless hours just staring at it as young teen. It is hard for me to make a truly educated evaluation without seeing at least a good profile still.
Just out of curiosity, how high did you have the first hill. Somebody dug up some paperwork that suggests the first drop was 87' add maybe 3' for the bottom structure, for 90' total height
I think the coaster was built in 1910.
1909, but this is the modified version, so I went with the dates after the modification.
This seems very scaled down... why is the ride so small?
I couldn't find any actual figures except that it was the first coaster in Pennsylvania "with dips over 50 feet," and this has a first drop of roughly 50 feet. Like most of my recreations, I have to take liberties and guesstimate when there are no photos or figures. I think it's pretty accurate, all things considered.
Who is collecting the Tickets ? I have ridden this 3 times now !🎫🎫🎟