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A wooden roller coaster may lose all its original wood

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That nostalgic wooden attraction you love is basically a philosophical paradox. Due to constant splintering and weather damage, the track requires such aggressive daily replacement of boards and bolts that within a few years, virtually none of the original materials still exist.

A wooden roller coaster may lose all its original wood
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