The major features of the new park were the roller coaster and large dance hall.  But the park also added a carousel, dodge-em’, shooting gallery, penny arcade, children’s playground, and a wading pool.

The 75 feet tall “Wildcat” roller coaster at Fern Brook was designed by Herb Schmeck and built by the famous Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC), now Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters of Hatfield, Pennsylvania.  It was PTC’s fifty-ninth roller coaster; PTC’s first was built in 1904 for Pine Beach in Norfolk, VA. (Early roller-coasters were called toboggan riders.)  The PTC company, which still manufactures amusement rides, also built carousels.  It built the “Wildcat” coaster at Hershey Park in 1923; the “Giant Coaster/Pippen” at Rocky Glen in 1920; the “Twister” at Croop’s Glen, Hunlock Creek in 1927; and the “Bear Cat” at Sans Souci in 1928.  Copyrighted views of PTC roller coasters are available on various internet web sites.

On July 18, 1929, a fatal accident occurred on the Wild Cat when Frank Sudol was killed on the ride. Sudol was attending a United Mine Workers picnic. While riding the coaster he stood up in his car at the top of the second high incline. He fell backwards and his foot caught in the car. He was dragged to the bottom of the dip. He was dead on arrival at the Nesbitt Hospital.

He was originally misidentified as Emery Smith in the newspapers - but his correct identity was made the next day. Sudol left a widow and 8 children.

A few years later in mid-July 1936 Yolanda Flora, age 17, received head and body lacerations when she was beginning the coaster ride and was struck by a stray
piece of timber.