page_title: Jazz Railway
section_title: Ride experience
hierarchical_section_title: Jazz Railway / Ride experience
caption_attribution_description: English: Modification of public domain patent image of a roller coaster track element
context_page_description: Jazz Railway was an early model line of wood roller coasters incorporating a steel-frame structure. These operated at various amusement parks and fairgrounds during the mid to late 1920s. The coaster model is considered to be the first of the Wild Mouse style roller coaster.
context_section_description: Like modern Wild Mouse coasters, Jazz Railways were relatively compact in their design. The coasters had a footprint of 70 by 160 feet (21 by 49 m). Besides their steel frame structure, another innovation which connected Jazz Railways to the later Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters was its "jump" or "stunt" track (referred to in later Traver Cyclones as a "Jazz Track"). This consisted of rapidly undulating track that created a rapid shimmying motion.
caption: Diagram taken from one of Traver's patents of the rapidly undulating track utilized on Jazz Railways and later coasters
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