That Time There Was a Gyro Monorail
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2022
- Monorails are very unpopular nowadays as most now know that they are fads, except for the Simpsons. The concept still seems futuristic today even though it has been around for over 100 years. The gyro monorail is definitely the most interesting but ultimately it was a failure.
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The biggest drawback with it is every train car would need it's own stabilization gyro.
mmm... not every train car, but at least one every two... I think...
Or a Jewish mother to jerk it up straight.
It would not cost much to put a third center rail for a mono train being the road bed is already established. I really like this novel concept.
Yes but great for trams. Issue is when it pulls up to a tram stop, everyone has to put their foot out.
@@geoffgeoff143 I assume you're joking, but just in case, the gyroscopes would keep it standing. It's not using the forward motion if the train to keep itself up, only the effect of the huge gyroscopes inside.
In the end, the War Department used 2ft narrow gauge instead.
Merci du partage! Evidemment ici ce concept n'a pas été retenu, mais ailleurs, bien sur que si! Stéph.
Thanks for sharing! Obviously this concept hasn't been adopted here, but elsewhere, of course it has! Stéph.
I've seen videos on how the mechanism operated to keep it stable, and it's really a remarkable bit of engineering. Even if it never caught on, you have to admire the eccentric genius that worked out how to build it.
wow-- this could operate as... a 'tightrope' gyro vehicle. The segment 2:55-3:00 apparently show it riding along a stretched cable, much as a gyroscope can walk along a taught string. I like to imagine crossing over the Niagara Falls gorge in a vehicle like this, or the Grand Canyon.
My working model on a high wire: czcams.com/video/zxm_kAKst6g/video.html
Did Shelbyville have one?
Great idea - but I doubt if would have been significantly cheaper to build a rail track with one rail rather than two - you'd still need all the earthworks, sleepers and signalling etc. And of course, a 2 rail system only needed a simple steam or diesel loco to operate, with no gyros. Cool that it leaned into corners though!!
If I had the money, I'd totally build one of these, It's long since been in the public domain, so I could even use the original patents.
But I'm surprised there's no theme parks that have tried this, would be a fun little ride!
fun, but also a stressful ride
@@reactortechroblox I don't think it'd be any more stressful than going on a rollercoaster.
Germany is STILL trying to make Monopod's as they are now known happen... Their intent is to offer 2-way service in rural Germany using PRT-like gypo-pod's so that a one-track line can be used both ways at the same time... Who knows if it's ACTUALLY going to happen but the concept is still very fascinating that even after all this time? Their are still fans of this technology trying to commercialize it...
You could see this thing being brilliant as a short haul inner city tram that sprawls out into the suburbs .
Low initial investment, because of less materials to build tracks, but very high operation cost😢
the flywheel weight needs to be proportional to the weight of the train and it is effecting the friction force
there for - it could make it less profitable than using the dual rials system with no flywheel weight but with double the parts that effected by friction
Stepping on the toes of the massive established railway industry. No way this was going to happen forthis reason
Gyromonorail!? I hardly know her!!
Who is this Williamston man you speak of? I've never heard of him
Simply, wow!
I think the world is just about ready for this now 😊
Brennan was snuffed to keep his tech quiet. He was probably onto way bigger things we'll never know about. Like Nikola Tesla, his designs evidenced a superior knowledge of physics for his time & place in technological development.
Just like with the new high speed maglev railway being built in japan from tokyo to osaka,
This gyro monoloco need wheels instead of legs so it can be used without relying on its gyro when in lower speeds.
But when the ground is less accommodating or theres the need to speed up, then the wheels can be lifted to remove the drag from the wheels.
Died in a car accident?
Awesome tech. The train is more complicated than a regular one but the savings on track infrastructure could be huge.
They say the train would 'naturally balance' in corners. I don't see how that can be, that is precisely what the gyro would prevent. You would have to actively operate the gyro system to balance it.
The gyro already actively resists a change in its orientation, meaning that any turn will cause a torque that will force the train to angle in towards any turn, instead of being flung out of the turn as inertia would seem to dictate.
The working model you see has survived and is now on display in the National Railway Museum in York. It's missing It's cab but otherwise is mechanically complete.
@@theproceedings4050That is the reason it had two gyros interconected, each one rotating in opposed way.
The gyros moved mechanically and automatically, so it balanced itself. All the driver had to do was operate the accelerator and brake.
ah hell naw we got the TRNE
Monorail did not catch on for several reasons. Mainly because of the heavy weight of the gyro technology.
1 Coach Electric Train & Gyroscope in Middle
Frm Glasgow 2 Edenburg
No Stoping In Between
AC Supply: 200v
Train Width = 2.4 m
Train Length = 12 m
Cabin Height = 2 m
(Like Bus)
Single Track wit no Curve
And Bidirectional Train (Non AC)
Siting Arrangement
Facing each othr
2 Sit & 2 Row
And no Toilet & Curtain
I wouldn't get on a train that looked like that. Might have been suitable for the battlefield, (Churchill) but the soldiers would prefer to be seen getting out of a sheep
@JohnCallahantuai how many World War One battle veterans did you canvas the opinions of?
@IAMPLEDGE Well I had 3 great uncles at Gallipoli and 4 at Paschendaele, and being Kiwis I know they preferred to bring their own sheep over..so it's a no- brainer really
Incroyable. 😅
I once thought of something like this in school when I was taking a test
@wjgthatsit2357 that's nothing. 46 years ago I imagined reading your claim in the comments section of CZcams.
I like this video also before i forget can you the history of the Pullman 4400 and the Kawasaki M9A
The kawasaki m9a does not exist yet
It's upsetting there's background music throughout the video. Couldn't finish it.
I'm glad you were upset.
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Died?
Why do the trains look so creepy
Is the really no video footage available? These slide shows are getting boring.
@LKDesign video footage? From 1909? No, there isn't.
@@IAMPLEDGE
You do realize we do have video footage from the Wright brothers' first flight from 1903, right?
Early videography experiments are known from 1888.
Also, preservation projects and museums could have created footage of this train after 1909 as well.
Doesn't seem very safe
Why so?
It's ingenious and it's very surprising to see it working, even after you've seen the nicely detailed exposition, but...
..it's a solution in search of a problem. It's a complex solution to a problem that can be fixed very simply, with two rails and a four-wheel bogey.
The active negative-feedback balance system is extremely complex and expensive in comparison to a four-wheel bogey and predicting failure modes of this mechanism - that are *always* catastrophic - is trivial.
It's common for innovators the "fall in love" with their ideas and as with romantic love, this is blind and frequently deaf to the flaws of the object of their affections.
A dispassionate engineer assessing this design would be thinking:
1) Complex
2) Expensive.
3) Heavy.
4) Dangerous.
The world was wrong.
I the 2nd to comment
You did not describe how it works. 👎