One of the first “roller-coaster” rides in the U.S. was actually a short coal railway in Pennsylvania that hauled coal downhill between mines and used mules to bring the empty cars back up the hill.

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CLEAR LAKE | A team of Forest City High School students recently learned on the fly how to build a roller coaster out of paper. Gabe Staudt, Ellie Reece and Ally Larson were among the participants in ...