Photo: Silver Dollar City/AP Photo
Wooden roller coasters are elegant, but they couldn’t be made to do all the terror-inducing things that are hallmarks of the newest steel coasters—that is, until now. The Outlaw Run, scheduled to open in 2013 at the Silver Dollar City amusement park in Branson, Mo., will be the first wooden coaster to turn riders upside down.











Willie Jones
Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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