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The Texas Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster at the defunct Six Flags Astroworld in Houston, Texas, and was known for its airtime, speed, and feeling of being out of control. It was tall, had of track, and the ride lasted for two minutes and fifteen seconds. It was opened in 1976, after a failed attempt by Astroworld to buy the original Coney Island Cyclone. ==History== In the 1970s the Coney Island Cyclone was in a state of disrepair, and was in danger of being demolished to expand the nearby New York Aquarium. Astroworld did not have a wooden roller coaster at the time, and the owners attempted to buy and move it to Houston. After further study, the owners decided that a move would be prohibitively expensive, and so settled on building a replica of it. Astroworld hired William Cobb to design the replica of the Cyclone. He created a mirror image of it, which was also larger and faster than the original. During its construction, which was done by the Frontier Construction Company, the north end turnaround was damaged by a tropical storm, which delayed its opening until 1976. When it was opened, it was one of the tallest and fastest wooden coasters in the world, and was considered by many to be the best one in the world. In 1979, the first turn was lowered by two feet to prevent stalling, so that it could operate safely in higher winds. In 1983 an accident occurred in which at least one park employee was killed and several injured. During a test run of the coaster, the train was being pulled up the first slope until a wire snapped, which sent it backward towards the storage shed, where it careened off the track killing an employee below and injuring some passengers. After AstroWorld's closure in 2005, the Texas Cyclones trains were shipped to La Ronde, a Six Flags park in Montreal, Canada. A small section of the track was also removed after the ride had closed and sent to the National Roller Coaster Museum in Texas, where it is currently stored. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas Cyclone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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