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Am I high or is the picture of the flip flap railroad loop decidedly not circular?

You’re high. But also the photo was taken at an angle to the track, so it’s not gonna trace out a circle on your screen.

No, he’s not wrong. The exit is about 20 ft further forward than the entrance.

A true circular loop the entrance and exit would be directly side by side.

That would be a helix, not a circle.

Right ... no rollercoaster loops can be truly circular - in this universe anyway.

"You can check-out any time you like But you can never leave!"

I'm not high now and I read the article they cited for that fact. Nowhere in the article does it say the first loops were a circle. In fact, it says the opposite:

>New York City's Coney Island, home to several amusement parks, followed with its own looping coaster in 1901. Using an ellipse rather than a circle for the loop,

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