Backety-Back Scenic Railway

Backety-Back Scenic Railway was a wooden roller coaster located at Crystal Beach Park.

[1] The Backety-Back Scenic Railway was notable for a backward-traveling innovation which would be adopted many years later in more modern steel roller coasters.

[5] Backety-Back Scenic Railway was built in 1909 by Pennsylvanian John H. Brown and construction of the coaster cost $50,000.

[8] Being a shuttle roller coaster, Backety-Back Scenic Railway traveled over its course both forwards and backwards.

[8] In 1910, a 17-year-old girl, Louise Koch was killed after falling from the Backety-Back Scenic Railway.