Original Ravine Flyer. (if anyone has more photos, please contact Waldameer Park at 814-838-3591 or info@waldameer.com)
9-13-07 From Tom Ridge Center tower - see Lake Erie
9-30-07 East turnaround
9-30-07 Looking west from turnaround
9-30-07 West side beginning to climb up
9-30-07 looking down first drop
9-30-07 East side turnaround banking
9-30-07 Beginnings of the West tunnel
10-12-07 after 3rd drop, then go up hill again
10-12-07 exiting 171' tunnel
10-12-07 bottom of 1st drop
11-01-07 West Bridge abutment & 1st drop
11-01-07 Need bridge to cross highway!
11-01-07 1st drop (side view)
11-03-07 Looking up 1st drop
11-03-07 After final drop, going uphill again
11-03-07 Working on 1st Drop
11-03-07 Side view 1st drop
11-04-07 Beginnings of Loading Station
11-30-07 Lift hill and final bunny hops before brake run
11-30-07 Station deck and old Ravine Flyer station
11-30-07 From roof of old Ravine Flyer station
12 07 07 Station coming along
1 11 08 Station building
1-12-08 1st bridge sections arrive
1-12-08 View down lift hill
1-12-08 Storage track, lift hill
1-12-08 From top of Gift House
1-14-08 Bridge: 1st section up
1-15-08 Bridge 2nd section up
1-15-08 Bridge 3rd section up
1-15-08 Motor house started
1-15-08 From top of Gift House
1-15-08 from Lakeview roof
1-15-08 Spur & Lift Hill
1-15-08 up Lift Hill
1-16-08 4th Bridge section up
1-18-08 1st bridge arch
1-18-08 Bottom 1st drop
1-18-08 View to bridge
1-18-08 Up/thru lift hill
1-18-08 Parallel track - extreme banking
1-18-08 Lift hill/motor house
1-26-08 Bridge complete structure
1-26-08 View from turn around
1-26-08 90 degree bank
1-26-08 Bridge from road
1-30-08 lift hill from 90 degree banking section
1-30-08 passby station
1-30-08 Motor House & banking
1-30-08 lower lift hill looking east
1-30-08 parallel tracks by Sea Dragon
1-30-08 Bunny Hops
1-30-08 Lift Hill & Motor House
1-30-08 Motor House
1-30-08 Station, brake run and passby
1-30-08 From Tom Ridge Center tower
1-30-08 Ready to pump concrete in east Bridge abutment
1-30-08 Going back up bank
2-4-08 From Top of Lift - Turnaround & Tom Ridge Center
2-4-08 From Top of Lift - Sea Dragon & Kiddieland
2-4-08 From Top of Lift Hill - back down lift
2-4-08 From Top of Lift Hill - Lake Erie
2-4-08 From Top of Lift Hill - the Peninsula
2-4-08 From Top of Lift Hill - looking east
1-29-08 panorama from Tom Ridge Center (photo courtesy Gravity Group)
1-29-08 panorama from track (photo courtesy Gravity Group)
2-3-08 at Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters factory with ACE members
2-10-08 Track banking by Lakeview shelter
2-10-08 entering 90 degree bank & 60' drop
2-10-08 From Lakeview roof
2-17-08 Storage track (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Lift hill (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 First drop, beginning to build tunnel (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 From Tom Ridge Center tower (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Last climb up bank (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Last valley (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Extreme banking (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 90 degree bank (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 90 degree bank up close (photo courtesy Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Inside 171' long tunnel (photo courtesy Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Track on bridge is started (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Station & final brake run (photo courtesy of Gravity Group)
2-17-08 Turn around motor house thru lift hill (photo courtesy Gravity Group)
2-29-08 looking east accross bridge
2-29-08 Looking back out tunnel to bridge
3-1-08 View into tunnel from bridge
3-2-08 Connecting to turnaround
3-2-08 East side structure
3-2-08 View back to bridge
3-2-08 Back to bridge
3-2-08 View from Lakeview roof
3-16-08 Ist tunnel looking back up 1st drop
3-16-08 1st drop into tunnel
3-16-08 1st tunnel & bridge
3-16-08 1st tunnel, bridge, turnaround
3-16-08 into 1st tunnel, 76' long
3-16-08 entering bridge section
3-16-08 crossing bridge
3-16-08 entering turnaround section
3-16-08 bridge view from east side
3-16-08 2nd tunnel, 171' long
3-16-08 up on right track, down on left track after 90 degree bank
3-16-08 90 degree bank section
3-16-08 first section with track steel added
3-16-08 final bunny hops - track steel added
3-16-08 final bunny hops
3-16-08 brake run
3-16-08 brakes in station
3-16-08 control house framed
3-21-08 final climb up, thru lift hill
3-21-08 brake run, station
3-21-08 lift hill, motor house, bunny hops
3-21-08 into station brakes
3-28-08 Down first drop
3-28-08 Bridge from top of lift
4-7-08 Up lift hill
4-6-08 Turnaround view from top of lift
4-6-08 Panorama of Presque Isle from top of lift (courtesy Larry Bill, The Gravity Group)
4-6-08 Panoramic view of bridge & turnaround (courtesy of Larry Bill, The Gravity Group)
4-13-08 Outbound at crest of bridge
4-13-08 Looking north over Peninsula Drive
4-13-08 Off bridge, to turnaround
4-13-08 Turnaround banking
4-13-08 Approaching 105' double down drop
4-13-08 Top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Back down to bridge
4-13-08 Great view of Lake Erie from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Waterpark from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Waterpark, Ferris Wheel from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Ferris Wheel, Lift hill from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 1st drop from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Tom Ridge Center from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Turnaround from top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Extra parking lot form top of 2nd hill
4-13-08 Back over bridge
4-13-08 Back to bridge
4-13-08 Entering bridge tunnel 2nd time
4-13-08 Crest of bridge back to west side of Peninsula Drive
4-13-08 1st drop thru bridge tunnel
4-13-08 Back up to park
4-13-08 View from Tom Ridge Center tower
4-13-08 Traveling south to bridge
4-13-08 1st drop, tunnels
4-13-08 View of turnaround from Peninsula Drice
4-13-08 Bridge, lift hill from east side of Peninsula Drive
4-13-08 1st drop from bridge abutment
4-13-08 Bridge, turnaround
4-13-08 Bridge, turnaround from 1st tunnel
4-13-08 Halfway down 1st drop
4-13-08 entering 1st tunnel
4-13-08 View from roof of Lakeview Grove, original Ravine Flyer station
4-13-08 Maze of track from top of Sea Dragon ride
4-13-08 RR track gravel bed started
4-13-08 Parallel tracks, 90 degree bank
4-13-08 Lift hill, final run to brakes from Sea Dragon ride
4-13-08 90 degree bank
4-13-08 Coming out of 90 degree bank
4-13-08 Bottom of 3rd major drop, then back up to park
4-13-08 Up to park, through lift hill
4-13-08 Panorama from top of 2nd hill
4-16-08 Parallel track, 90 degree bank
4-16-08 Lift hill from behind Ferris Wheel
4-16-08 Bridge, 1st drop from east side of Peninsula Drive
4-16-08 1st drop looking over tunnels
4-16-08 From top of Ferris Wheel
First drop
90 degrees!
Final bunny hop
Down first drop
8-3-08 from top of XScream tower ride
