monorails shutdown

[coasterphil]

How's the weather? I think that effect our extension, too. Crowds were OK, but it poured for us...

Weather has nothing to do with park hour extensions.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Weather has nothing to do with park hour extensions.

So it's ALL on capacity?

It wasn't THAT bad in MK...

 

[coasterphil]

So it's ALL on capacity?

It wasn't THAT bad in MK...

They made the decision to extend Saturday's hours earlier in the week. Obviously their revised projections based on the larger crowds at the beginning of the week were wrong.

 

[s8film40]

I just heard that this shut down was due to people standing on the outside stairs at the contemporary and throwing printers at the monorail.

 

[unkadug]

I just heard that this shut down was due to people standing on the outside stairs at the contemporary and throwing printers at the monorail.

What?

 

[Bigart]

If anyone knows exactly what happened please advise...

 

[Master Yoda]

Guys....This is nothing to worry about. The monorail goes down all the time for a myriad of very uninteresting reasons. There is no cause for alarm or reason worry whether the monorail will be working on your upcoming trip. Odd are that it will be working just fine.

 

[anooska]

It has already been said that it opened.




Does this have to do with recent SPAM?

thanks!!!:ROFLOL:

 

[Rob562]

Guys....This is nothing to worry about. The monorail goes down all the time for a myriad of very uninteresting reasons. There is no cause for alarm or reason worry whether the monorail will be working on your upcoming trip. Odd are that it will be working just fine.

Exactly. I believe the beltpack E-stop buttons that the platform CMs wear can shut down the entire monorail system. A push of either button will shut down the power to the beam(s) around the station the beltpack is assigned to, but pushing both buttons will shut down power to all beams. I could see both buttons accidentally being pressed by a CM who was only trying to hit one button.

The station power can be easily restored from the station console, but a full system power restore requires maintenance intervention.

-Rob

 

[disneydata]

From what I've heard, there was an issue at the Contemporary which shut down both lines for a short period of time. I wasn't told what exactlay happened, but it couldn't have been anything major if it was that short of a time frame.

 

[WDW Vacationer]

Guys....This is nothing to worry about. The monorail goes down all the time for a myriad of very uninteresting reasons. There is no cause for alarm or reason worry whether the monorail will be working on your upcoming trip. Odd are that it will be working just fine.

I know. It has been a rogh 2 months at WDW. People are a little jumpy!:lol:

 

[s8film40]

If anyone knows exactly what happened please advise...

Like I said apparently a mischievous person decided to throw a printer off the building from above. They stopped the monorails as a precaution to make sure nothing else was being thrown off the building. This is actually a fairly common thing although people usually throw smaller items like ice, coins, etc. Just stupid people acting stupid.

 

[Duckberg]

back to Normal

Everything OK :veryconfu Duckberg

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

They made the decision to extend Saturday's hours earlier in the week. Obviously their revised projections based on the larger crowds at the beginning of the week were wrong.

Well...In any case, it made me VERY, very happy.


They should do this in EPCOT more often...:lookaroun

 

[board57796]

Exactly. I believe the beltpack E-stop buttons that the platform CMs wear can shut down the entire monorail system. A push of either button will shut down the power to the beam(s) around the station the beltpack is assigned to, but pushing both buttons will shut down power to all beams. I could see both buttons accidentally being pressed by a CM who was only trying to hit one button.

The station power can be easily restored from the station console, but a full system power restore requires maintenance intervention.

-Rob

On each kill pack there are two buttons, one grey, one red. At every station EXCEPT EPCOT beam stations (EPCOT and Concourse aka TTC), the Red button kills Express and the Grey kills Resort, in the immediate vicinity of the station at which the kill pack was used. On EPCOT, the red and grey buttons both kill power to the Epcot beam in the vicinity of the station at which the kill pack was used.

There's no way for a CM to kill power to the entire system without being either in Central or in Shop.

 

[Rob562]

On each kill pack there are two buttons, one grey, one red. At every station EXCEPT EPCOT beam stations (EPCOT and Concourse aka TTC), the Red button kills Express and the Grey kills Resort, in the immediate vicinity of the station at which the kill pack was used. On EPCOT, the red and grey buttons both kill power to the Epcot beam in the vicinity of the station at which the kill pack was used.

There's no way for a CM to kill power to the entire system without being either in Central or in Shop.

Thanks for the clarification. I must have mis-read the info about the packs during the various discussions last month. Sorry for any confusion.

-Rob