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Monorail Crash in 1980?
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This is the cockpit of a Mark VI monorail. (for those who have never been up front, only 4 plus the driver can ride up front.) I suggest if you go to WDW make sure you ride up front at least once, you will never forget it. (try to ride up front from the TTC to EPCOT for a better ride) Also, if you ride on the resort line and ask to sit up front, you may get rejected unless it is that resorts monorail. (each monorail resort has its own monorail for that day. If you get on at that resort you get priority to the cockpit.) If not just ask the CM at the platform you want to sit upfront and they should be able to help you (you may have to wait, but it is well worth it).
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Originally posted by Fantasia Boi
If you look closely at those pictures... you will notice that some of the trains are Mark IV's and some are Mark VI's.
It is a little hard to tell them apart if you don't know the features.
I still cant tell them apart without looking very close. I found this on a website and thought i would share it. It is the section of a class "Drive Training" that trains Drivers. This part is about the radios.
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Talking on the radio is one of the most important
aspects of drive training. Our goal is to make you sound as
professional, accurate and most of all, coherent as
possible.
This is not as easy as it sounds. Talking on the radio
is the major stumbling block to most trainees, because it's
your responsibility to repeat back verbatim whatever it was
Central or Shop has told you to do. Still sound easy? Okay
then, try doing this:
CENTRAL: Monorail Green from Central.
GREEN: Green bye.
CENTRAL: I show you clear MAPO Bypass through
Switchbeams 8 and 9 to the EPCOT Center Mainline, following
Monorail Pink Delta in a temporary three-train normal visual
operation. You're clear normal visual to pylon 95, hold and
notify Central. Also notify Central upon passing pylons 27
and 45.
GREEN: (30 second pause) What?
Not very professional, is it? That's why we have the
most important radio code you can use--10-9. 10-9 means,
simply, I don't have the slightest idea of what you just
said and would you mind repeating it very much. Here's an
example of how the code 10-9 improves the professionalism of
your radio work.
CENTRAL: Monorail Pink from Central.
PINK: Pink bye.
CENTRAL: I show you clear to put your train in stop
and your control arm in neutral. You're clear to press
Linebreaker Reset and Group A/B Reset for fifteen seconds,
hold and notify Central the status of your groups.
PINK: (30 second pause) 10-9?
See? Much more professional. To help you sound even
MORE professional on the radio, we use a variety of
different codes to make your radio experience as confusing
as possible. Here's a listing of the codes you will need to
know.
10-1: Reading you poorly, get a new battery
10-2: Reading you perfectly, you don't have to shout
10-4: Okay, yes, acknowledged, sure, uh-huh, whatever
10-6: Busy, (Only supervisors can be busy. You can't)
10-7: Out of service, off, broken beyond repair
10-8: In service, on, "My God! It actually works!"
10-9: Repeat, say what?, I ignored you the first time
10-20: Your exact location, (In pylon numbers, please)
10-22: Disregard, never mind, I goofed
10-23: Stand-by, wait, hold, don't move or die!
10-26: I understand, (Only Poly leads can say this)
10-36: The current time of day, (In military time)
10-45: Phone call, you were speeding through the Poly
10-51: En route to, hope to get to. . .
10-52: E.T.A., (Always say 5 minutes, no matter what)
10-56: Come here, you're in biiiiig trouble!
10-99: Deadheaded, no guests on board. . . I think
SIGNAL 25: Fire, flames, Chernobyl
SIGNAL 96-S: There's a huge snake on my train!
As a Monorail Pilot, you will use each and every one of
these codes during your career, although the last one might
not come up as often. I put it there just in case you do
get a huge snake in your front cab, you'll know the exact
radio code to relay this information to Monorail Central.
(Chances are, however, they won't know what the hell you're
talking about.)
RED: Central from Red.
CENTRAL: Central bye, Red.
RED: Be advised, I have a Signal 96-S on board.
CENTRAL: (30 second pause) 10-9?
RED: Be advised, I have a Signal 96-S on board!
CENTRAL: I copy you have an auto accident on board?
RED: Negative! A Signal 96-S!
CENTRAL: I copy you have a robbery in progress?
RED: 10-22, I threw it out the window.
CENTRAL: I copy, you threw the robber out the window?
I think you get the picture.
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Pioneer Hall
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I think now I will bring a rubber snake to the front with me and see if that actually happens...lol
Anyway thanks for the great info on the rails...
Anyway thanks for the great info on the rails...
Disney4648
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What is the name of the company that makes the monorails?
Funny this was written by Brannon Boran over 10 years ago and posted on a bulletin board.... whoa have things gone around,,,,
He is right with the exception with a Mark VI it is MAPO Overide and there is no longer a line breaker trip...
Signal 96-S I have heard on the radio twice both times from the MK. One was for a rattle snake and the other was thought to be a coral snake...I did hear Signal 96-A whch means alligator when one was sunning himself on Surf Rider Beach (Now the home of the Wedding Pavilion).... The only other strange signal that I used during my time at Central was one for a bomb threat...funny thing the manager on board (he was doing a check out) did not know what that call was....but that is another story
Monorail Lime
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Many different companies have made the monorails. The first were made by a swiss company, Alwag. The later ones were made by other smaller companies. The M-VI are made by Bombardier and the Tokyo Disneyland Monorails are made by Hitatchi. They have changed over the years. The Alwag monos were the ones with the bubble on top where the driver sat and the M-VI are the ones used today at WDW. At Disneyland they are using M-V which are not as nice as the M-VI because you cant stand up all the way in them. The ones at TDL are more like computer driven subways.
The hardest to tell apart are the M-IV and the M-VI because they are almost the same mono with the exception of a few new features (e.g.-MAPO, electronic doors, etc.)
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Big Thunder
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Does anyone have any pics of the bubble tops?
DisneyWorldGuru
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The site I got it from said it was written by JOHN ROBERT KAPPELER. If you wish to check it out click the link below. I enjoied reading the entire thing.
http://gator.naples.net/~saturn/monorail/monofun.html
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Big Thunder
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Thanks for the pics, those bubble tops look really uncomfortable to sit in. 
Big Thunder
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Geeze this topic is dying! Someone ask some more questions for the Monorail Ops to answer before this topic goes to the topic graveyard!
Big Thunder
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Ugh too much sugar, I gotta lay off that Ester candy its making me have endless babble.
DisneyWorldGuru
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Originally posted by Big Thunder
Thanks for the pics, those bubble tops look really uncomfortable to sit in.
I don't know if you remember 20,000 leagues under the sea, but both the Alwag monorails and 2KLUTS were both uncomfortable (so says a former cast member i know). Just imagine sitting in a small clear dome in 98 degree weather, for hours on end. LOL.
Actually it was possted by Brannon Boran aka Monorail Green. John Kappeler (aka as Tennis Ball Head) wrote it and gave it to Brannon who then posted that part as a part of a larger posting that included several items...
John and Brannon were firends and roomates..... I worked with and knew them well.....
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