Creating the Disney World Monorail
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2022
- Ever wonder how it all works? How it was built? This is the story of the Walt Disney World Monorail system, one of the busiest monorail transit systems in the world. Riding aboard these trains is a classic part of the Disney experience, and today we will be delving into their creation and operation!
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Monorails are often misunderstood, and there are many myths about them. This video provides a comprehensive look at how monorails can still benefit society in their own way:
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Alex, your narration, editing is top notch. You make Walt proud.
I am no youngster, in fact I’m as old as the Disneyland monorail, but I still get excited to see it and ride it! I don’t know if I’ll get to WDW ever but if so I’d love to ride that too! Thanks for the video!
I don’t care what people say, we need a monorail in LA
Agreed!!!!!
You already have one in Disneyland
Agreed!
Oh thank you so much, Alex!! I LVOE the Monorail! Love the look of the Disneyland Monorail more than the WDW models, but the WDW ones are more functional these days. Your Disney nerd fans love you 🥰
Man you do such a amazing job Alex.
I still remember getting my wings as a child riding in the front of the Monorail. Something my kids will not get to do with the decision of Disney to not allow front passenger riders in the pilots cabin. I still remember the first time riding them when i was 5 in 1990
My first trip to Disneyland was 1969. In the late 1970's, Disney (the corporation) made a series of bad business decisions. In 1980, when I visited the park by myself (I had been there with family before) I will never forget my first trip on the monorail. The air conditioning wasn't working and there was graffiti inside the monorail, which reminded me of New York City subways of the time. I went back a couple years later and things were much better.
I remember the tagging, people just don't take care of things, and they don't teach their kids any better.
You should do the walt Disney World monorail fire disaster in 1985
Wow! Another A for you Alex, plus 7 White Stars. This is just awesome. A wonderful history of the Monorail.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@AlextheHistorian, I have enjoyed it immensely. You are just getting better and better 😀
The early monorails looks so smooth and beautiful in their design!
Great video! Monorails would’ve have been expanded and been a staple transportation service If Walt was around longer.
11:41 I've found the Bally's monorail in November 2023. It went from Sandy Valley, Nevada to a Southern California metal fabrication parking lot...
The monorails are such beautiful trains! Thanks for producing this excellent, comprehensive video, Alex!!
My pleasure!
The Highway in the Sky! I have rode the WDW monorail 1,000's of times. It's part of the Disney experience.
My 1st trip to the Magic Kingdom was in November 2001. I rented a small Kia and was speeding through the rain on WDW Drive. Now MK is 4 miles away from the interstate, so it's a while before you see monorail tracks. after driving a while & only seeing hotels 4 lanes in & 4 lanes OUT with a giant median, I reasoned that the park was a "myth". Until I finally saw those tracks! LOL! Fav. fun memory is when my sister visited with me her 1st time. We rode up front w/ the pilot!
I just love the smell of entering the monorails and just looking out the windows.
Did we talk about the aging tracks and beams? When I worked at WDW we were told during a cast tour the beams were to be replaced soon and that was a long time ago.
Thats weird, the beams at Disneyland are 12 years older and in far worse condition, yet they can keep going for another 15 years at least.
Glad touched on Mary Blair....enjoyed this one as well.
Great job, Alex! The amazing video to go along with the well-written narration are perfect. The music is a nice touch. I learned a lot, too. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
So glad I discovered you, Alex. Your videos are among the very best. Beautifully scripted, edited and narrated. BRAVO!!
Thanks!
Hello. I was a Monorail Operator at WDW opening. I am confused by the "CAST MEMBERS ONLY." Not there when I was. Also the door could be opened manually, ony if you had to open one door for something. The doors were opened by pushing the Black Buttons outside just behind the operators door. One opened all doors, and there was one for each individual car. The telephones were not there. I left in late September 1974 and myself and five others were selected as Trainers and Leads to open Space Mountain. It was in the last 90 days of constrution site. Wrote a training SOP, trained ourselves and the began training 180 castmembers for opening on January 15, 1975. There were "soft" or unnanounced openings for a few hours at a time during December. Lots of testing.
Monorails again. When I left for Space Mountain there were ten trains. The last one was Monorail Black. In fact we had one African American Supervior, Josh Sledge, who brought it out of the Monorail Roundhouse as it was called even though it was not round. It only had five places for train maintenance. There was a few schedules that were overnight so that we could move the trains in and out as needed. We were all crazy. The stories are all true. I left Space Mountain and went to Cash Control. Then on April 7, 1979 I left Disney and spent thirty-seven years, and retired from Amerian Airlines. As of today January 22, 2023 I am back in the Orlando area in a very quiet area living with my husband, a retired Amerian Airlines Captain. He was one of the first openly gay pilots at the airline.
I am still friends with some of the opening Monorail Drivers. The youngest of us cannot be less than 69 or 70 years old. I have not been to WDW in over 25 years and do not plan on ever driving past it in I-4. Be well my friends. I will you all the best. Oh, I was able to entertain families, even on long haul flights traveling to WDW by naming all of the Seven Dwarfs. That is all can admit to.
Superb video, with both the history of the WDW monorail and excellent footage. Good pacing with clear and concise narration too. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers from Montréal.
This was such a fantastic video! It felt like you really covered every part of the monorail's history, and then some!
Another great video. Thanks Alex
I love the monorail! What a story about it!
My dreams of Disney and specifically Disney World revolved more around the monorail swooshing through the Contemporary hotel then the Castle or any other part of the park itself. To me that was the excitement and dream of Disney World a sleek, gliding highway in the sky.
Alex I love your story telling! You make Disneyland come alive for me like it did when I was growing up, which I admit I miss. Keep up the great work!!!
Great video as always Alex!
It was my first time ever been on a monorail and it was a fun ride on to Magic Kingdom. 😍😍
This is a fantastic video!! One of the best on youtube! However, I honestly hope they just keep rebuilding the Mark VI monorails, or replace them with new Mark VI monorails in the distant future. The design should stay the same, that is part of the magic of Disney World!
this is a perfect documentary
i went on the monorail orange with my family for the first time and i filmed it, i was so happy to go on one of the color monorails
I'm So Excited To Go On The Walt Disney World Monorail At Walt Disney World Resort In Florida In The United States Of America During My The City Of Orlando And Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Museum And Universal Orlando Resort And Walt Disney World In Florida Holiday Megatrip On My 30th Birthday Celebrations Next Year In March 2023. Now That's Just Awesome. This Walt Disney World Monorail Trains Are A Bit Like British Rail's Inter City 125 High Speed Diesel Electric Express Trains. Thanks Alex the Historian Mate. X
Really enjoy your attention to detail and the extra information you provide on the history videos. I appreciate all your efforts.
Thanks Mike!
As I recall, there was a monorail crash at Walt Disney World circa 1975, which resulted in one fatality. I also remember from that era being crammed in between two corpulent, sweaty adults at the end of our Disney Day, then a cast member closed the doors, which was like listening to fifty car doors being slammed sequentially. We took the ferry next time.
GREAT VIDEO!
My favorite will always be the Mark V trains at Disneyland.
this cracks me up every time I see it when the ducks finally get the idea and fly off much to the applause of the rows below at the old motor boats cruise dock and when one of the ducks attempts to return then flies off and the camera pans left I'm expecting to see a bloodied bisected duck body splattering to the pavement, but it never happens, only in my dreams.
Nice! Any O scale models available?
Unfortunately no
Wow Great Video as always Alex! I learned so much!
Awesome! Thank you!
woah nicee
The automation doesn't really do too much in avoiding a repeat of the accident, since, iirc, that happened during shunting, not during regular operation.
Improvements are good (like, the railroad could probably use a proper block-system), but in this case the cause laid somewhere else.
Also, on the night they had to constantly chase off people taking photos of the crushed monorail BEFORE the victim was recovered, which is just horrific.
Yes one of the trains was being switched, but the other was in normal service operation. If this same scenario were to happen with the new automated monorails, the one in service, carrying passengers would have emergency stopped when it detected the monorail ahead. One of the ways the collision could have been avoided was if the in-service monorail had seen the one ahead, or noticed it much sooner.
Of course it's entirely possible that full automation introduces entirely new issues that we have yet to see.
The monorail system was cool.
But, those Quick, growling, 6v92 Detroit Diesel powered, GMC RTS Transit Coaches were the finest, cleanest fleet of that model.👍🏁🏁🙏🏾.
I think it is great that they went from a V8 gas powered train to a electric one! And back in 1959!
Will you ever make a video on the Disney world railroad?
Wow I would never imagine a pilot would loose his life In a disney monorail😥
when Brightline make a train station at Disney springs I think the monorail will go to the station when Brightline begins serves to Tampa Florida and they should make a monorail station at animal kingdom and the other resorts
Disney is all about earning money now. They wouldn't open a new free monorail service, they'd rather charge money for it, or offer a type of shuttle/taxi service they can charge premium for.
It’s crazy after Walt and Roy died Disney didn’t even try to make Epcot. That’s why there’s a mess today.
Suspect Walt would convert them to maglevs if he were alive today.
I wish monorail technology was more efficient and practical. It’s unfortunately, destined to remain a niche mode best suited for theme parks.
Did you re-recorded this video?
Yeah I've gotten a better microphone since I made the video the first time
@@AlextheHistorian Nice!
WDW monorails are 50 years old
The oldest monorail in service at wdw was added in 1989. It's monorail blue. It turns 32 this year. :)
“Money Issues”? Disney is a gazillion dollar behemoth, they can’t find the money to fix a broken door?
The Monorail needs to be scrap because there too old and theybhave parts falling off and the system is too expensive to maintain. The City of Las Vegas have plans to scrap their Monorail system.
The first? Germany First
Yes Germany was first. I don't recall saying Disney was first.