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Monorail Peach will be added to the fleet at Walt Disney World this fall
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peachykeen
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Yeah for the foreseeable future, no CPs will be in Monorails.
Driving them is an amazing experience, it's awesome to know that when you are driving a train, there are at most only 10 other people in the world driving a MkVI Monorail. I've said before, there are good drivers and bad drivers. The good ones can take a train that may be on the verge of a meltdown and nurse it at least to the next station for maintenance. The bad ones panic and abuse the train and cause it to break down mid-beam and need a tow. And the good ones know how to speed :drevil:
Driving them is an amazing experience, it's awesome to know that when you are driving a train, there are at most only 10 other people in the world driving a MkVI Monorail. I've said before, there are good drivers and bad drivers. The good ones can take a train that may be on the verge of a meltdown and nurse it at least to the next station for maintenance. The bad ones panic and abuse the train and cause it to break down mid-beam and need a tow. And the good ones know how to speed :drevil:
Monorail_Red
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The more you speed, the faster the speed zones drop too. If you approach the Poly on Express @ 20MPH it doesn't drop from 30 to 20 until the nose enters the station. I chose my overspeeding wisely...
(now I'm really starting to miss it again)
Monorail_Red
Monorail Lime
Well-Known Member
Why?
peachykeen
Well-Known Member
Not quite sure of the exact reasons. The last couple groups didn't even get drive trained because the entire department was so behind on training anyways, the FT and PT people had to get drive trained first. This only left the CPs a couple weeks worth of driving if they'd gotten trained. So the CPs the last couple were Platform Only if they werent on the longer program, and now they are gone completely.
Monorail Lime
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Interesting. When I participated in the summer program (before it went alumni-only) our group started drive training immediately after platform so that we would be able to drive for the majority of our three month stay. I suppose that was not the most efficient use of training resources.
Regular cast members had to wait months before drive training and were understandably resentful about it which perhaps lead to the changes.
Regular cast members had to wait months before drive training and were understandably resentful about it which perhaps lead to the changes.
Monorail_Red
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It was like that when I was there, but they were all caught up before I left and they must have fallen behind again. :shrug:
CDavid
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When you say the cabs were rebuilt from new, are you referring solely to the cab sections of the cab cars, with the remainder of the carbody (behind the cab) being original, or was the entire carbody for cab cars 1 and 6 (entire length of the car) fabricated new (and then fitted to the original "coach" sections)?
peachykeen
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Just the cabs are new (where the Pilot sits), the passenger sections of 1 and 6 are old, original Purple and Pink.
peachykeen
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From today. I'm sorry but it just looks too much like Gold to me, especially at night. It will be very hard for Pilots to tell them apart from a distance.
And it's hard to tell if they painted the vent window surrounds black on Car 1 to match Cars 2-5.
Monorail_Red
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From today. I'm sorry but it just looks too much like Gold to me, especially at night. It will be very hard for Pilots to tell them apart from a distance.
And it's hard to tell if they painted the vent window surrounds black on Car 1 to match Cars 2-5.
They're gonna have to add deltas. There's no way they can run 2 trains almost of an identical color. Put Gold & Peach next to each other and you can tell the difference, but not at night or from a distance. Another friend of mine currently in Rails said that he was told that the color was supposed to look like Coral, which would justify no deltas. But it looks nothing remotely close to Coral. It does look like Gold...I suppose you could use the window vents to tell it apart...but the black vents won't do you a darn bit of good at night!!
Monorail_Red
:brick:
So, what is more important: a one syallable color (Peach) that looks a lot like another Monorail, or a two syllable color that stands out (Maroon)? Is it more important for the Monorail Pilot to be able to identify his/her own train using a single syllable color identifier, or for other pilots/cast members who are at a distance to be able to identify the Monorail color?
We've been told that "peach" was chosen because it is a single syllable and is therefore easier to say than a color like "maroon" which has two syllables (like silver, yellow, purple...all of which were/are Monorail colors). Is that single syllable identifier spoken over the radio more important than being able to visually identify the Monorail from a distance?
We've been told that "peach" was chosen because it is a single syllable and is therefore easier to say than a color like "maroon" which has two syllables (like silver, yellow, purple...all of which were/are Monorail colors). Is that single syllable identifier spoken over the radio more important than being able to visually identify the Monorail from a distance?
Monorail_Red
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The amount of syllables isn't really relevant...there's bigger words said over the radio. And it is imperative that you are able to tell the train colors apart from each other in any light. It's hard to explain unless you're a current or former Monorail CM.
Monorail_Red
Monorail_Red
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They could have gone for Monorail Chrome. That would have stood out.
We already have a Monorail Silver!
peachykeen
Well-Known Member
But one of the factors in choosing the new color (as told to me by Blackwell) was having one syllable for radio reasons.
Even though "Green" sounds like "3" (and "Coral" sounds like "4") on the radio....
BalooChicago
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"White" is pretty easy to say. Can't be that hard to scrape it off
Monorail_Red
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Yeah I can see that but...it does and doesn't make sense...only because there are bigger words used on the radio...not going to list them (even tho I'm enjoying the conversation) because I don't want to put too much info out there...
Monorail_Red
SMRT-1
Active Member
i agree...and your drink looks delicious.