Monorail: Kludge Of The Future
This kludge only lasted about 5 minutes before it was handled but I got the photo!
Submitted by: KeyPoulan via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer AlleyCat says, “Who knew the magic and wonder of Disney was held together with (Donald) Duck Tape?”
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It’s the OH-NO rail!
Brilliant
In the words of the Disney monorail announcer guy: “Please stand clear of the kludge…Por favor mantenganse alejado de las cinta adhesiva de conducto”
Pardon me, but you mipspledded the late Jack Wagner as ‘announcer guy’.
This kludge could seem to be a good one until’ it on the platform pokes an old woman in the ass and as a result the railroad company gets a lawsuit for sexual harassment.
I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrooke, and by gum, it put them on the map …
*Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!*
Mono-d’oh!
I like the guy. He’s not interested in this kludge. He has his mind on other things nearby.
Look at the left hand and vizualize what it is going to do next
am i the only one who hears the monorail song from the Simpson
One more time!
*Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!*
Mono-d’oh!
Forget the kludge. Do you notice how people can’t stand up inside? TRWTF is that this monorail car is designed for little people. Where the heck is this?
That is one of the Disneyland Monorails. The ceilings are low on them but then again they aren’t designed for standing, all of the passengers sit. There are severe height restrictions along the route so they couldn’t make the trains any higher.
It’s Disneyland, and the original trains were deliberately built at ~5/8 scale because the original ALWEG design (still running in Seattle) would have been too big. It was a prototype system, and they didn’t want “Huge”. So Bob Gurr scaled them down.
(Just like the DL Railroad, 3′ Narrow Gauge with ~5/8 scaled cars.)
Over the years the Monorail trains got longer by adding two passenger cars in the middle and extending the station platforms, but they can’t get larger or they would start to hit things like buildings, and the bottom of the other beam where they cross under…
Monorail cat could not be reached for comment
“I call the big one bitey.”!!!
You see “Mono” means “One” and “Rail” means “Rail”.
As I read this in Google Reader I start to think… there should be a “Don’t Like!” button also, near the “Like” button.
lol
GOOD CALL SKETCHY!!!!!! LOL
What? no duct tape?
Who knew the magic and wonder of Disney was held together with (Donald) Duck Tape?
Disneyland is held together with duck tape AND pixie dust.
disney magic happens with faith, trust, and painters tape. o ya, theres pixie dust someone along the way too…..
Ahh, here we see European engineering at its finest, with a small touch of American engineering at its finest.
ROFL
Welcome to the World of ‘We really hope it’ll hold till’ Tomorrow!
I should submit the photo to ASME.org, they’ll revoke the Mechanical Engineering Landmark plaque…
This is fairly recent kludge – this photo has Monorail Red with the “third generation” windows fix, with the tilt-out bottom and half-open top. Can’t have a hole big enough to jump out of like the old trains used safely for decades…
And it has the first fix they tried, the emergency exit hatch on the roof with the grafted on vent scoops. When the new monorails first arrived the windows didn’t hardly open at all, and anytime it was over 80-F outside they turned into Easy Bake Ovens…
Now THAT whole mess is truly worthy of an “I Fixed It!” There was over a year of finger-pointing on who messed it up, when it was a comedy of oversights on all sides – search the archives at for the whole grisly story.
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I should submit the photo to ASME.org, they’ll revoke the Mechanical Engineering Landmark plaque… http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Landmarks/Disneyland_Monorail_System.cfm
This is fairly recent kludge – this photo has Monorail Red with the “third generation” windows fix, with the tilt-out bottom and half-open top. Can’t have a hole big enough to jump out of like the old trains used safely for decades…
And it has the first fix they tried, the emergency exit hatch on the roof with the grafted on vent scoops. When the new monorails first arrived the windows didn’t hardly open at all, and anytime it was over 80-F outside they turned into Easy Bake Ovens…
Now THAT whole mess is truly worthy of an “I Fixed It!” There was over a year of finger-pointing on who messed it up, when it was a comedy of oversights on all sides – search the archives at http://www.micechat.com for the whole grisly story.
woohoo, safety rules!!!
I took this picture in November of 2008. Yes, it’s one of the newer monorails at Disneyland. Kludges don’t last long there so I was happy to get the shot!
A job well Gum’D!