My friend and his family were on Monorail ["perhaps Silver"] tonight at about 4:30pm, traveling on the Resort line from Contemporary to TTC.
About halfway between Contemporary and TTC (at the hold point), their train stopped for a good 5-6 minutes. Meanwhile, Green loaded at TTC and then drove forward to Silver's position and held.
Then, both trains traveled in parallel to the TTC (Green going "backwards"). Silver stopped to unload, while Green switched directions and headed back to the MK via the correct direction (through Contemporary).
While holding, Silver pilot came on and mumbled something about having to do a "parallel move" and actually said something along the lines of "...making sure one monorail doesn't back into another..."
First, can anyone enlighten me on this operation? I can only assume it stems from the accident, but what would this specific move accomplish?
And secondly, it seems very un-magical for the pilot to use "so trains don't collide" in his spiel. My friend (who is very technical and very into WDW monorails) said the pilot was basically rambling about technical stuff he probably shouldn't have been relaying to guests, but must have figured people needed to hear something.
On an unrelated note, later tonight, they were coming into TTC on the Epcot line and pilot overshot the platform....by about 30'. Oops. Took about 2 minutes to get all the clearances and overrides in place to back up - expectedly.
And on a possibly related note, yesterday they had a bus bar issue on the Express line. He said he overheard the words "power....something.....not resetting." Gold's tail was hanging out the north side of the Contemporary, Teal was stuck at the hold point outside MK, and green (or lime) was at the TTC.
Any insight on any of this?
About halfway between Contemporary and TTC (at the hold point), their train stopped for a good 5-6 minutes. Meanwhile, Green loaded at TTC and then drove forward to Silver's position and held.
Then, both trains traveled in parallel to the TTC (Green going "backwards"). Silver stopped to unload, while Green switched directions and headed back to the MK via the correct direction (through Contemporary).
While holding, Silver pilot came on and mumbled something about having to do a "parallel move" and actually said something along the lines of "...making sure one monorail doesn't back into another..."
First, can anyone enlighten me on this operation? I can only assume it stems from the accident, but what would this specific move accomplish?
And secondly, it seems very un-magical for the pilot to use "so trains don't collide" in his spiel. My friend (who is very technical and very into WDW monorails) said the pilot was basically rambling about technical stuff he probably shouldn't have been relaying to guests, but must have figured people needed to hear something.
On an unrelated note, later tonight, they were coming into TTC on the Epcot line and pilot overshot the platform....by about 30'. Oops. Took about 2 minutes to get all the clearances and overrides in place to back up - expectedly.
And on a possibly related note, yesterday they had a bus bar issue on the Express line. He said he overheard the words "power....something.....not resetting." Gold's tail was hanging out the north side of the Contemporary, Teal was stuck at the hold point outside MK, and green (or lime) was at the TTC.
Any insight on any of this?