Monorail Trouble?

[PhotoDave219]

Oh my god! What happened?? I hope no one was hurt. That looks just awful.

It burned up!

A tire blew out under the train and caused a fire, which destroyed the front cab. Only minor injuries. Happened on the Epcot line. Almost 30 years ago at this point.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Monorail Silver caught fire due to a flat tire being dragged dragged down the beam. Here is a link to the Wikipedia article(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_IV_monorail).

I work for a sheriff's office, so I am used to referring to things as incidents, considering everything that happens can be blamed on something or someone. Accidents by nature can not be blamed on something.

I would have just referred to it as a monorail fire. Incident is rather vague.

 

[erwinalber4]

I have always wondered, is there a special way to get people in wheelchairs down from the monorail and off the boats? If something was to happen.

Your magic band is a flotation device in the case of boats. For monorails, it magically floats you down to ground level much like tink's pixie dust.

 

[goofntink]

I have always wondered, is there a special way to get people in wheelchairs down from the monorail and off the boats? If something was to happen.

A quick and hard push!!!

 

[bfox1183]

I would have just referred to it as a monorail fire. Incident is rather vague.

Welcome to the world of info I can give out about things that happen here...

 

[Gabe1]

Monorail Silver caught fire due to a flat tire being dragged dragged down the beam. Here is a link to the Wikipedia article(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_IV_monorail).

I work for a sheriff's office, so I am used to referring to things as incidents, considering everything that happens can be blamed on something or someone. Accidents by nature can not be blamed on something.

Our teeny tiny little Hamlet too refers to things as incidents also, welcome to Northern IL. Often a concept that can't be grasped by those who have only lived in large urban areas. While Chicago isn't all that far everything that happens there has to be labeled and categorized. A different lifestyle.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Welcome to the world of info I can give out about things that happen here...

Trust me, I know your world well. I know PIO speak intimately. Have our paths crossed?

Plus the private emails Ive gotten of photos followed by "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE OR PUBLISH"....

 

[bfox1183]

Our teeny tiny little Hamlet too refers to things as incidents also, welcome to Northern IL. Often a concept that can't be grasped by those who have only lived in large urban areas. While Chicago isn't all that far everything that happens there has to be labeled and categorized. A different lifestyle.

Not as much as you would think, considering all the departments in IL have the Public Information Officer(PIO) trained similarly

Trust me, I know your world well. I know PIO speak intimately. Have our paths crossed?

Plus the private emails Ive gotten of photos followed by "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE OR PUBLISH"....

I doubt it as I am not the one they want pushing out the press releases... But I do get those emails constantly...

 

[Gabe1]

Not as much as you would think, considering all the departments in IL have the Public Information Officer(PIO) trained similarly

Trained similarly yes, implementation varies widely.

 

[Victor Kelly]

Forget getting people to walk down a beamway. Forget getting them to walk up it as in going to the Contemporary. While I am generally fearless, that is a big hell no. With today's technology there is no reason to not have a fire suppression system onboard the monorails. Rope, CM, calm evacuation off of a vehicle 40 to 75 feet in the air, and slide down the nose to the beamway and walk without losing one's balance and fall to a death? Yeah, let me kno how that works out for real.

The Ferry is a different question. Start throwing people off in the event of a fire. I am sure they have enough PFD's which I can forego, and help others that need the help.

 

[tongaloosh]

What has always concerned me is what happens if the train stops mid rail and a fire were to break out? I don't think the fire department would not be able to get everyone out in time.

Well, now I'm paranoid

 

[schwartziel]

Funny it was the yellow train - my friend and I saw it broken down between the TTC and the Contemporary on July 29th. All the traffic was directed to the ferry and resort line. We didn't see any rescue crews but with the way they were redirecting things it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually showed up.

 

[Mad Stitch]

Do you think the crowd now a days can scoot down the windshield and walk along the beam????? No way. Not sure I would want to walk along that beam 30 feet in the air, I would rather use a rope to climb down to the ground.

Forget getting people to walk down a beamway. Forget getting them to walk up it as in going to the Contemporary. While I am generally fearless, that is a big hell no. Rope, CM, calm evacuation off of a vehicle 40 to 75 feet in the air, and slide down the nose to the beamway and walk without losing one's balance and fall to a death? Yeah, let me kno how that works out for real.

That's what I have always thought. And all that is after they pull themselves up through the escape hatch in the ceiling of the cabin. How are the elderly, disabled, children, physically unfit, going to make it up there?

 

[Victor Kelly]

That's what I have always thought. And all that is after they pull themselves up through the escape hatch in the ceiling of the cabin. How are the elderly, disabled, children, physically unfit, going to make it up there?

Those people won't make it out, it will become a Darwinian process where only the strongest will survive. Children can be lifted up, but can they be counted on, not to freeze up or fall?

 

[tare]

I'm not sure what bothers me more...the fact that the monorail broke down stranding people or that chunk of concrete missing from the beam.

I noticed that too. Huhhhh