alright guys its time we settled this debate once

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Anon07/24/26, 14:44No.2078294

>end up where you started No, it's a ride. Transportation goes from A to B. I look forward to the next post somewhere halfway in 2027

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Anon07/24/26, 16:05No.2078299

wow only 1,500-2,250 miles put on a train per year? Would have guessed it was ten times that.Simulating (hyper real extreme G) Transportation is not Transportation. Simulated Walking is not Walking. Maintenance don't have maintenance trains to move motors to do work with the assistance of the track's strength. These are Art installations are Loosh Loops like a Gehry or a Koons or those new Sports Stadiums. The concrete pilings regularizing the terrain are an exposition for the engineering work. Older down and back coasters built by hand and guesswork not CAD are more directly attuned to experiencing the bucolic environment (transportation metaphor, not transportion). The precision translation of thing in itself as the lead engineer-artist intended the product to be could be sufficiently represented by a lower cost G force simulator installation at a museum.

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Anon07/24/26, 20:16No.2078316

it's not transportation but it's a form of train and most of this board is trainfags so where else would you discuss them?

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Anon07/24/26, 23:37No.2078323

Walt Disney was a train autist so logically he also liked roller coasters. Disneyland basically just started off as a massive testbed for his train designs before evolving into a fullblown theme park

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Anon07/25/26, 01:40No.2078325

the same way cctv is tv

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Anon07/25/26, 04:00No.2078332

your body will end up in the same spot, but it's a transportation for your soul.

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Anon07/25/26, 18:24No.2078366

Roller coasters are literally trains! There is no closed loop exemption in the rules!

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Anon07/25/26, 20:08No.2078368

Is track cycling tra/n/sportation?

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Anon07/26/26, 19:32No.2078452

Yes, but coasters fall on a spectrum. Many so called "alpine coasters" like picrel are unambiguously transportation. Gravity propelled, rider controlled cars quickly descend the mountain in a way that emphasizes the thrill of acceleration (banked turns), while blending into the natural environment.>b- b- but there's a system that brings empty cars back to the top of the mountain!So? Why would completing the circuit make it any less "transportation? A ski lift is a complete circuit and is even empty half of the time. Is that not transportation?>b- but they're having fun!What if they weren't? What if the guy who works at the top takes it down at the end of the day because it's faster, and not for enjoyment? Certainly transportation for him.Now get rid of the mountain and make it a lift hill. Make the train pause at the top so you can appreciate the height you've gained. Make the train descend in a fun way. When did it stop being transportation?

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Anon07/28/26, 00:22No.2078504

Lucky Lake in RCT 2 has a prebuilt mine train coaster that circles the lake and has multiple stations. So it exists in fiction at least. I think roller coasters in theory could be transit if someone wanted to build one that way.

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Anon07/28/26, 17:24No.2078549

This freestanding airtime hill had to have brakes incorporated after installation, going uphill. The trains do not merely just roll over the cliff they are also accelerated downhill to hit the highest top speed in the world, for tallest/fastest claims.. But Intamin couldn't actually use that speed for even the one feature and had to slow the trains down. The limits of G and speed are fully explored, there is no reason to pour more millions into a longer track completed faster than a shorter track at regular speeds. Transportation categorically does not share this double bind of a need for speed meeting too short a trip to be meaningful for guests to queue for. Roller Coasters are now finished and entirely derivative Art, until the roller ball bearing itself is obsoleted by gravitics.

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