Rebel Yell is a wooden roller coaster

Wooden roller coaster

A wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with laminated steel running rails overlaid upon a wooden track. Occasionally, the structure may be made out of a steel lattice or truss, but the ride remains classified as a wooden roller coaster due to the track design...

 located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia

Doswell, Virginia

Doswell is an unincorporated community in Hanover County in the Central Region of the U.S. state of Virginia. Originally called Hanover Junction, it was located on the Virginia Central Railroad, which later became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at a crossing of the Richmond,...

. It opened with the park in 1975.

Rebel Yell is a racing roller coaster

Racing roller coaster

A racing roller coaster, sometimes referred to as a dual track coaster, consists of one whole track or two separate coasters that travels along parallel or mirrored tracks to simulate a race between the trains. The coaster trains travel along tracks just a few feet apart of one another...

 featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other. Its design was inspired by the Racer, another wooden racing coaster at Kings Dominion's sister park, Kings Island

Kings Island

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, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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. In turn, Rebel Yell's design was the basis for Thunder Road

Thunder Road (roller coaster)

Thunder Road is a wooden roller coaster located at the Carowinds theme park in Charlotte, North Carolina. It opened to much media attention in 1976.Thunder Road is a racing roller coaster, featuring two individual tracks that parallel each other...

, at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

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.

There is one red and one blue train on each side. When only running one train on each side, an effort is made to run one train of each color. There are often fun spirited arguments on the lift hill about which train is better.

The Rebel Yell received the ACE

American Coaster Enthusiasts

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 Coaster Landmark award on June 20, 2003.

History

• Rebel Yell originally paralleled Lake Charles, a large man-made lake on the northwest corner of Kings Dominion. Two thirds of the lake was drained in the early 1990s when the space was needed for construction of a water park
  Water park
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  . (The Anaconda
  Anaconda (roller coaster)
  Anaconda is a steel roller coaster built in 1991, located at Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell, Virginia. It was built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer; it was one of the few Arrow looping coasters built in the 1990s and was Kings Dominion's first roller coaster with more than one...
  
   roller coaster still runs over and under the remainder of the lake.) The roller coaster now divides the water park in half with a walkway running under it.
• The trains on one side of Rebel Yell were turned to face backward from 1993 until 2007. Beginning in 2008, both trains were faced forward again so that the ride operates under the train manufacturer's specifications.
• The ride's name comes from The Rebel Yell
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  , a battle cry
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   used by Confederate soldiers
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   during the American Civil War
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  . At the end of the ride, the trains pass through a tunnel that reverberates with a sound that resembles screaming.
• Rebel Yell was featured in the 1977 movie
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   Rollercoaster.
• Portions of the ride were re-tracked for the 2010 season.
• Seat dividers and individual lap bars were added in the early 1990s.