Two vintage pieces of amusement-park history have spent decades in a private collection in Orlando, and now they’re among items on their way to museums dedicated to roller coasters and to carousels.

Roller coasters are not only great fun to ride, they’re also fascinating pieces of engineering. Building your own full-size coaster is sadly beyond most people’s means, so the average enthusiast will ...

[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example of physics, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — When Jared Holladay was in middle school and stood in line for his favorite roller coasters, he didn’t just watch the ride. He watched how the ride worked, from the chains that ...

Riverton Parke students in Jo Dee Biddle’s Advanced Placement calculus class is working on building scale model roller coasters for their first semester project, and they’re doing it in a competitive ...

Even for children, life has its ups and downs, but for a group of gifted students at Grant Middle School, the roller coaster ride can be fun and informative. The eight students in question were faced ...