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Re: Do you like monorails?
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:22:33 GMT
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I was working on Sydney (Oz) a few months back, and the Mono-rail there had
no driver (or so it appeared). Perhaps this could be a way for TLG to save
money if the ever use mono-rail again?

(a cynical) Scott A

Tobias Möller wrote in message ...
Do you like them?
I think they are cool, because you can have stations on top of houses, and
they move so quiet. They remind me somewhat of a futuristic hover-train.
that´s probably why the first monorail was a space one.

--Tobias





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(...) They use the same monorails in Miami. They are called People Movers actually. Systems are in service, AFAIK, in Dallas, Miami, and Sydney. They usually are for small inner-city routes (i.e. the Miami route goes all through downtown and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Do you like monorails?
 
Do you like them? I think they are cool, because you can have stations on top of houses, and they move so quiet. They remind me somewhat of a futuristic hover-train. that´s probably why the first monorail was a space one. --Tobias (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)

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