An amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, closed one of its roller coasters Friday after a crack was found on a support beam. Carowinds shut down Fury 325, which the park's website ...

Carowinds Amusement Park in North Carolina will replace a steel support column on the Fury 325 roller coaster after a guest noticed a crack, which apparently formed along a weld line. In a ...

An amusement park visitor in North Carolina spotted a crack in the support pillar of a roller coaster while people were on the ride. Jeremy Wagner posted to Facebook on Friday that he discovered ...

A North Carolina amusement park will be replacing a support pillar on a ride after a video of a crack in the roller coaster's column went viral last week. The crack was discovered in the Fury 325 ...

Engineer Korey Kiepert answers each of these questions plus plenty more on Roller Coaster Support. The photo of Gold Reef City was taken by NOLWEEN and used under the Creative Commons 3.0 license ...

If you're a roller coaster fan ... Kingda Ka and the Green Lantern rides will be taken down. Kingda Ka was ranked as the world’s tallest and fastest coaster, and has been ridden 12 million ...

Siren's Curse will be the “tallest, fastest and longest ‘tilt’ roller coaster in North America" when it opens in summer 2025 Getty Coaster fans are getting ready for the rush of a thrilling ...

My face is sliding backward! Many modern roller coasters begin with a quick launch – 0 to 120 mph in less than four seconds – rather than the ka-chunk, ka-chunk of a chain slowly towing a car ...