Talk:Walt Disney World Monorail System
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[edit] Monorail Switching
I was confused about how monorail switches, espeically the one in the diagram. Until google told me. [1] Especially: [2] - you can see the Contemporary Resort in the background.
I hope the edit takes x1987x 03:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Erroneous Image
The image used in this article, Image:WDW MK Railroad and Monorail.png, contains four errors that I saw. I would fix the errors myself, but I do not know how to edit images on Wikipedia.
Error 1: The color codings for load/unload at the Magic Kingdom station are incorrect. Unload (red) is between the two beams. Load (blue) is on the exterior and interior of the beams.
Error 2: Switchbeams 1 and 2 are shown incorrectly. These are the two switchbeams comprising the crossover from the Exterior beam to the Lagoon beam between the Magic Kingdom station and the Contemporary Resort. The image shows the crossover going from southwest to northeast. The crossover actually goes the other way: from northwest to southeast. The switch connecting Exterior to the spurline leading back to Shops is a three-way switch. In the northern throw, it leads to the spurline. Center throw is mainline Exterior. Southern throw is the crossover to Lagoon. You can see the three-way throw in this image: [3]. The left beam is Exterior, the right beam is Lagoon. The switch in Exterior is currently at center. You can see the end of a beam to the left of the switch. This is the end of the spurline to Shops. You can see a small, 2-foot piece of beam to the south of the switch as well. This is the crossover to Lagoon.
Error 3: Base (the station at the Transportation and Ticket Center) has been redesigned. The load platform between the beams exclusively serves the Exterior beam. The upper platform inside of Lagoon is now combined load/unload for the Lagoon beam. This platform should be made black to be consistent with depiction of the combined load/unload platforms at the resort hotels.
Error 4: The text "No actual crossover track; the track segments simply move into place" does not make sense. It is certainly a crossover. If you would like to think that a crossover requires some beam, then call the 2-foot segment of beam that connects switches 1 and 2 when in the crossover throw the crossover beam. Additionally, I would consider the correct terminology to be "beam" rather than "track".
--66.168.28.254 04:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] How are Mark VI's powered?
What is the method of propulsion for the monorail? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.99.159.22 (talk • contribs) 21:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Controls for the Mark VI
When riding Monorail black up front, the pilot indicated that the system is controlled via a Java application. Anyone back him up on this? I added an image of the controls which certainly look Java based. Was very interesting controls and I wish I knew what it all meant. --Napnet 13:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
![[2]](http://www.monorails.org/webpix/WDWswtch.gif){kind=link}
![[3]](http://webcookie.net/disney/walt%20disney%20world%20-%20may%202003/monorail%20switch%202.jpg){kind=link}