Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1. Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway Location: Mauch Chunk, Pa. Year it opened: 1827The founding father of roller coasters was ...

ARLINGTON Turns out, the ride isn t over for the Flashback at Six Flags Over Texas. The popular roller coaster is being moved to another amusement park a common (if not well-known) practice within the ...

VALENCIA – Nearly 16 years ago, Magic Mountain cloned the Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster. But the replica wooden coaster’s days are numbered, and a steel coaster called Flashback also ...

Six Flags over Texas announced Thursday that it will close two longtime attractions at the park in Arlington. Six Flags over Texas announced Thursday that it will close two longtime attractions at the ...

Patrons ride the Flashback at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. The Texas Chute Out, foreground, and the Flashback rides are closing after Labor Day. Patrons ride the Texas Chute Out at Six Flags ...

Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia said two of its 17 roller coasters would be closed for the 2007 season to make room for expansion. The wooden coaster Psyclone will be dismantled and the ...

Six Flags was a summer ritual when I grew up in North Texas. Getting dropped off by parents as far from the gate as possible, stuffing oneself with overpriced, sticky-sweet funnel cakes, trying to get ...

VALENCIA – Nearly 16 years ago, Magic Mountain cloned the Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster. But the replica wooden coaster’s days are numbered, and a steel coaster called Flashback also ...