217 inches

42 inches

5 feet

P-S rack & pinion

Cragar

4 wheel disc

2 - 16 foot ring slots

DJ Safety

Westinghouse J34-34

1951 McDonnell F2H U.S. Navy "Banshee" Korean War Fighter

6,500 lb. Thrust Afterburner

Diesel -26 Gallons per run

Just under 300 MPH

6 seconds

• mounted train bell
• train whistle

• it uses over 26 gallons of diesel fuel per run. That's approx. 105 gallons to the mile!
• at 270 MPH the Cannon Ball Express is moving about 1 1/2 football fields per second.
• at full power it produces 6500 pounds of thrust or equivalent to 13,000 horsepower
• in 1951 the Westinghouse Turbo Jet Engine originally cost $68,000
• the turbo engine military RPM rating is 104% or equivalent to 12,500 RPM's
• this engine consumes over 12,000 cubic feet of air per second, the same a emptying an average size 1500sf house of its air in just one second!