Building The Wooden Roller Coaster: Part 2 - The Track

The next part of our building venture is to build a portion of the roller coaster's track. This track is being placed by hand and cut to exacting tolerances.
After it's built, we will see a small test of our aluminum prototype car coasting from the station section!
Interested in more detailed coaster designing? Checkout the Patreon! / therollercoasterproject
Update: There will be a slight hiatus in uploads due to a cross country move; however, we will continue building the biggest little rides the world will ever see.

[@robj7481]

I used to build model rollercoasters. I made a looping working model out of brass tubing and track ties modeled after Arrow Dynamics. It was 20 feet tall, had metal fabricated cars with U-joints, a working lift hill, two teardrop loops and a double corkscrew. The track had a single larger tube for the backbone like the real thing. Although it worked completely, coasters don't behave in miniature the way they do at full size because of the weight and inertia differential. Heavy coaster cars seem to almost defy the laws of physics as they move around the track, seemingly without losing much energy because of "mass in motion" principles. But at small scale, coasters lose energy quickly, unfortunately.

[@CoasterB]

super happy i found that this! Built my own 'RMC' style model a year a back, wasn't working but i'd love to give another design a go, and see if i could get a train rolling

[@alexmasraum7596]

I'm going to do something like this. this is gorgeous craftmanship

[@rllycmig]

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE You Inspired me to try building my own coaster! So awesome Can't wait!

[@gijs.22]

I already had a idea butt this gave me more insparation on how

[@djbearington]

Hi, what type of bearings are you using for your wheels? They seem to have little friction!

[@therollercoasterdesigner]

These are 1/2" sewing machine bearings that I degreased and soaked in a Teflon gun oil.

[@Falconurbex]

How do you get the wood to gp round a bend im building one out of popsickle sticks but i can never get the bend correct and i am stumped how to do the corners can u give me any advice thank you in advance.

[@PiecesOfPrestige]

Excellent build so far! I can't wait to see what this project can bring! Have you been working on it lately?

[@therollercoasterdesigner]

I recently moved cross country so the ride building has taken a bit of a hiatus. Soon, I should be back up and running with more cars and a new way of building he supports. I'll be showing some updated designs I've had time to work on too. Thanks for watching!

[@germanatorenterprises2797]

where in Ohio are you? I am in central OH

[@jomari7385]

hey how did you do the cart pls I want to make one of this miniature ride

[@parmpreetghuman5972]

what are the things.

[@gggamer3215]

yolo

[@alexamerman5357]

boring

[@bradycalidonna5547]

And I’d assume you can do better?