Have you ever been on a crowded bus or monorail leaving the parks that was standing room only? I know I have! After long day in the parks, buses, monorails, and boats carry the tired masses back to their resorts (or cars), leaving people standing and ogling the seated passengers,
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Disneyworld to create new monorail job
Great news from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel. Walt Disney World plans to create a new position — and a higher pay scale — for the employees who direct the movements of its monorail trains. The new “central monorail controller” position will be responsible for overseeing traffic along the
Disney monorail briefly shut down after pilot suffers minor electric shock
Walt Disney World monorails were out of service briefly this evening after a monorail pilot received a minor electric shock while flipping a switch, authorities said. The pilot was mildly shocked in the arm while switching on a beacon that identifies the beam the monorail is traveling on, a fire
Disney monorail probe now expected to extend into fall
This article comes to us from the Orlando Sentinel’s Daily Disney: A year-long federal investigation into last summer’s fatal monorail crash at Walt Disney World is now expected to continue for at least several more months. The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that it does not expect to conclude
Monorail guide warned of hazard when trains backed up without a spotter
The manufacturer of Walt Disney World’s monorail trains warned against the kind of reverse driving that contributed to the system’s first fatal crash this past summer, according to documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel. An operating manual written for the Disney trains by Bombardier Inc. warned that driving the vehicles
More Monorail Trouble Strands Disney Guests
More trouble with Walt Disney World’s monorail system left riders stranded Tuesday night.Disney officials said a computer glitch aboard the monorail’s express track left a train stuck between the Transportation and Ticket Center and the Contemporary Resort. The train full of passengers had to be towed to the next stop.
300 stuck temporarily on Disney World monorail
Emergency crews rescued passengers aboard a Walt Disney World monorail train early this morning after they were stranded for nearly three hours because of a power failure, authorities said. The monorail system went down at about 1 a.m., affecting seven trains and stranding about 300 passengers on the red train
Disney monorail crash kills conductor with video
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family… Two monorail trains smashed into each other at Walt Disney World in Orlando early Sunday morning, killing one conductor and injuring the other. A Walt Disney World spokesman said the crash happened at about 2 a.m. Sunday on the monorail’s last
