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It was a while ago but I'm pretty sure this was exactly what I was told. Something about how it would slow down cycle times. Yet at the same time pilots were being told to "cool down" the unofficial cycle time competitions and to drive more slowly and "safely." Except during the exit. Then it...

When I walked by most were, as we used to say when I worked there, "making sure the railings didn't fall over." Otherwise known as leaning on them. Another phrase we used to say sometimes was "if there's time to lean, there's time to clean." That one doesn't seem to be as popular anymore ;)

Just now on Monorial Blue. Seems like such an easy thing to clean up. In fact, I did. And I haven't driven a monorail in years. I'm just a guest now. Edit to add: I'm fully aware this mess is caused by a Guest, but it's a shame that there isn't more regular cleaning throughout the day. I...

Just to be clear, the Exotic Driving Experience has, every time I have been there or seen them go by, been run clockwise. It wasn't a choice that the instructor suddenly made that day, and it also wasn't the driver accidentally going the wrong way. I'm not defending the choice to drive...

Driver's Facebook is full of people wishing him a happy birthday today. Must have been his present. And it looks like he posted a status about driving a Ferrari 458 earlier today. So sad. I've met the CM before.

I'd just like to say that years ago when I was in rails, I proposed to "management" that once every couple hours throughout the day, the CMs sweep out the trains real quickly as they came into MK or TTC. It would only take minutes. I was just asking that they enforce it as a policy that it be...

I drove past it last night in the same direction (GF towards Shades of Green) and the front of the car was mangled. The entire left suspension was basically torn off.

Oh absolutely. That is sort of the running joke in Shop. They do it to each other, and people still jump after years of it.

Part of the reason, but not the only reason, that WDWs bus-bars (the metal bars carrying the current for the trains) are on opposite sides, as opposed to the same side in DL, is to reduce to potential for an electrocution if someone were to fall in the trough (the area that the train pulls into...

No, it was Gold http://www.veooz.com/photos/mHKRmBM.html Picture isn't the greatest but I've seen other ones that clearly show it as Gold.

No, they are not.

I believe (although this is an assumption, based on the pictures I have seen and my experience doing a car-to-car evac drill), that any Guests who transferred via the roof did so after RCFD had arrive and secured the Guests to the rail running on top of the trains, which is there for that...

As mentioned, that section isn't "dual beam" like the middle part of the Epcot line. That scenario is possible, however, assuming the train is on a dual beam section. I was part of a drill where two monorails parked beside each other and bridges were used to transfer cast members from one to...

Sounds like an example of people not realizing the consequence of what they put online. I'm sure that girl never imagined her Tweet being published worldwide.

Towing a train with another train is technically possible (there are tow bars designed specifically for that), however I was told by the Shop manager that that option, after 2009, is basically the absolute worst-case scenario and probably wouldn't be done. A parking tram cab is capable of...

I agree with all of your post, and wanted to respond to this part. In the past, towing a train from the Epcot beam was an ordeal. Express would have to be cycled down, to be able to get a tractor from shop onto Express then on to Epcot to go grab the disable train. Because of this, Disney...

No worries. I probably didn't make it clear, and forget that some of this stuff isn't common knowledge!

There are more than one tractor. There are 3. However, as I mentioned a couple of times, the Monorail was unlucky enough to stop DIRECTLY on the switch that would have been able to get ANY of those tractors to it. Beyond that switch, the Epcot beam has no other switches.The only way it would...

You can tell your son that it is indeed very cool to walk on top of the monorail :)

Someone correct me if I am wrong but the brakes on most coasters are a two part system. The train itself has a, for lack of a better word, "fin" attached to the bottom. The second part of the system is, again lacking a better word, a "clamp" that is in the middle of the track itself. To brake...