For 5 years I operated and worked on the maintenance crew of the Coaster.  I also played baseball, and happened to have a game one evening--so I missed work.  When arriving the next morning, I was stunned to find one of the Coaster cars had come off the track and was sideways having been pushed about 250 feet by the attached cars in the train.  Just my luck--I missed all the excitement, and the fire caused by the sparks whuick ignited the oiled tracks.  I must have ridden the POP Coaster more than 1000 rides while working there, includinf a taped French version of the show "You Asked For It" where i moved from seat to seat and from car to car as the Coaster made it's trip. 

Years later I rode the Coney Island Coaster..nostalgic--Red Allante