Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Disneyland To Get New Monorails?
Over at Mice Age, Al Lutz got some interesting e-mails from readers. Apparently, Disneyland's Orange monorail has been taken from Disneyland to the Imagineers. They are going to tear it apart and document every piece to create blueprints for a new monorail version.
Over the past year or so the monorail's decline has been documented by many websites. Disneyland was even forced to run one train on alternating days because of the wear and tear on the parts. Disney headquarters wouldn't give money to build new trains and Bombardier wouldn't build them new trains because they wouldn't be profitable.
So it seems now that the Imagineers have gotten their money and are planning on building their own fleet. It looks like it may be a direct copy of the monorails used at Disneyland and without improvements from the larger version from Disney World.
It will be interesting to see how this works out.
