An all-wood wonder

I T'S the biggest roller coaster I the world has ever known. And it's all wood.

High as a l2-story building, with twin parallel tracks tumbling over a l-314-mlle course, the $6 million structure, aptly dubbed Colossus, recently opened at Magic Mountain, an amusement park just north of Los Angeles.

The lumber was suPPlied bY KoPpers Co., Inc., which also Pressure treated the material, using the "Cellon" process, for enduring protection against decay and insect attack.

Choice of wood as a construction material - 1,209,687 board feet of select, virtually hand-chosen lumberwas a painstakingly explored planning decision.

Story at a Glance

Wood was chosen by the designers as the only material that could impart the "Personality" required for the world's largest, longest, highest and fastest roller coaster.

"Unlike most amusement rides," notes Terry E. Van Gorder, President of the 2}O-aqe fun center, "a roller coaster seems capable of developing a distinctive personality of its own.

"Wood contributes importantly to this elusive identity facet in that, with its natural resiliency, it introduces precisely the degree of elastic sway that transforms a ride into a unique and memorable experience'"

It uses almost twice the amount of wood of any other roller coaster ever built.

Incorporating virtually every sophisticated refinement ever discovered about roller coasters and wood, the highest point on the structure is 125', and the first steep drop, tilted at an angle of 55 degrees, is ll5'. Still another descent is 105'.

Passenger coaches exceed 60 miles an hour, creating for a total of I I times, a lighter-than-air feeling of weightlessness under a maximum gravity force of 3.23.

With its dual set of tracks, Colossus becomes the first roller coaster ever to carry multiple coach sections, all going at once, propelling guests in a side-bv-side race to the finish.

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.Med.lbra Corp.is building a $3 million manufacruring plint at While City, O_1 for-iti Setpty Products and Sierra Wood pio_ ducts operations; Medco's Dia_ mond Industries div. plans a !ew center near Salem, Or.,. Golding Lumber Saiis'.

Westminstel, Ca., is celebrating its lst year in business.

Pope & Talbot has announced a l0-year growth program that rnctucles new and enlarged wood products plants, tim-ber acqulsttlons and major invest_ ments in pulp and paper. Tacoma Narrows Lum- ber.Co., primarily a Dougfir and cedar- mill, has permanently closed its Steilacoom mill. .

Ll/eye.r h a e u se r, Ge o rg ia - pa c iJi c and Willamette IndusTries hive been .found guitty in U.S. district court of charging false freieht rates; the gov. said freight raies were based on shipping from Portland, Or.. wlieth-er the ptywood was in fact shipped from there or elsewhere. . it e companies are separately appeal- tng the verdict.

. A nationwide freight rate increase to go into effec-l his mo. rs. Detng sought by the RRs, wh ich also plan to ask for rncreased demurrage charges eff. Feb. . Empire pictJic Ind"ustries, Tigard, Or., intends to build a door & door frame plant in Dillard..

Aaron's Home Center in Bakersfield was recently hit by a multi-million dollar fiie as was

Bakers,field Sandstone, . arson is suspected in both cases. . . Hayward Lumber in Lancaster, Ca., has also been destroyed by fire...

Coopers (part of Lone Star Industries) has opened a new retail unit at Fox Hills, in Culver City, Ca.; they plan to open a new Oceanside,Ca.,store in Feb./Mar. . Eagle Building Products has a new Glendale (Phoenix) Az., warehouse.

Louisiana-Pacly'c expects to complete rebuilding of its main office at Samoa, Ca., in about 6 mos.; it was severely damaged in a $ I .5 million fire last mo. . . Trus Joist has opened a new manufacturing plant in Junction City, Or.

Next month's National Housewares Exhibit, Chicago, has booked a record |,827 exhibitors; show will be the biggest in the National Housewares Manufacturers Assn.'s 40-year history. the National Wood' work Manu.facturers Assn. has moved to new Hq. near Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

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