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Topper track classification?

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With the success with Texas Giant, where we all agree that they have changed it from a wooden coaster to a steel one with the all steel track. The the question is, if a coaster get compleatly overhauled with Track-Topper technology, would it be classified as a steel or wood??
The reason why I ask is that most of the stack is still wooden...

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My classification measurement:
Steel- Completely steel rails. Ex. Behemoth, Gemini etc
Wooden- Wooden track and wooden support- Ex. GhostRider, Blue Streak
Hybrid- Any combination, Wooden track/steel supports (Voyage) Prefab (El Toro SFGAdv) Steel track wooden cupports (Texas Giant but this is as far as hybrid goes, only reason it is hybrid is it was a wooden coaster. If RMC ever makes a stand alone Iron Horse I will call it a steel.)

So Hybrid, but if someone called it wooden I wouldn't tell them they are **** stupid.
 
So what about the SFNE Cyclone? I mean its def smoother than a Vekoma by now, but it sure as **** aint Texas Giant topper smooth and fast. It still feels somewhat woody.
 
We shall call it a "Boner" because it is boner inducing, even to those who have not ridden. And because a Woodie is technically a Boner, but a boner is much harder, thus the steel part of the equation.
 
Cyclone got topper, Texas giant got iron horse which is a different concept entirely.

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Steel Hybrid, when compared with the Voyage, which is steel supports and wooden track, making it a Wooden Hybrid.
 
I still consider topper track to be a wooden coaster. Yeah, the top two boards are replaced with iron, but the rest of the track is still wood. Plus all wooden roller coasters have strips of sheetmetal running along every surface that a wheel, whether it's a road wheel or an upstop wheel, touches. Topper track is just making that steel strip larger.
 
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Taken from TPR

I still see wood in the rails.
 
^See, I think they're different things all together. TNTG was retracked, meaning all the wood was removed and the supporting structure under the rails, and the rails, was replaced. My understanding of the topper track is that it just replaces the rails.

Is this not what happens?
 
New Texas Giant got Iron Horse which is a completely different thing than the topper. Topper doesn't replace the wood, while Iron Horse completely removes all the wood and is wooden supports/steel rail.
 
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