Rebel Yell (roller coaster)
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| Rebel Yell | |
| Location | Paramount's Kings Dominion |
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| Type | Wood - Racing |
| Status | Open |
| Opened | May 3, 1975 |
| Manufacturer | Philadelphia Toboggan Company |
| Designer | John C. Allen |
| Track layout | Twin |
| Height | 85 ft (25.9 m) |
| Length | 3368 ft (1026.6 m) |
| Max speed | 56 mph (90.1 km/h) |
| Duration | 2:15 |
| Max Vertical Angle | 50 degrees |
| Capacity | 1200 riders per hour |
| Height Restriction | 44 in (111.8 cm) |
| Rebel Yell at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Rebel Yell at RCDB | |
Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster located at Paramount's 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. It is one of the few racing roller coasters with a backward-facing train on one set of tracks. 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.
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.
[edit] Trivia
- The trains on one side of Rebel Yell were turned to face backwards in the mid-1990s.
- The ride's name comes from The Rebel Yell, a battlecry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
- Rebel Yell was featured in the 1977 movie, "Rollercoaster".
| Roller coasters at Paramount's Kings Dominion |
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Anaconda - Avalanche - Flight of Fear - Grizzly - Hurler - HyperSonic XLC - Italian Job Turbo Coaster - Rebel Yell - Ricochet - Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster - Shockwave - Taxi Jam - Volcano, The Blast Coaster |
