Re: Big Dipper takes $5m ride from Luna Park

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

The "Scenic Railway" is still at St Kilda's Luna Park, it was the "Big
Dipper" that was removed.

The Scenic Railway is quite unique in that it has a "driver" (actually a
brakeman) to stop the cars from going too fast and derailing. The Big Dipper
didn't have this feature, and from (vague) memory, had a much more
complicated "bogie" with wheels gripping the side or bottom of the rail as
well. As far as I know, the Scenic Railway is just a "normal" railway (with
some pretty impressive gradients), as far as the track/wheel interface is
concerned.

"Bill Bolton" <billbolton@computer.org> wrote in message
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> "William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > (Melbourne) Big Dippers (or Scenic Railways as they were sometimes
called)?
>
> According to my Father, who lived in Melbourne for many years, the
> long gone "Scenic Railway" at the St Kilda Luna Park was somethig
> quite different to the Roller Coaster.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
> Bill Bolton
> Sydney, Australia