We've been on 4 monorails in the past 2 days, and 2 had to be shut down and have the computer rebooted. Is this now common while they work the kinks out?
Yeah, we expect A/C to work. There are 12 trains. If A/C breaks down on one, take it offline and get a working unit into the circuit.It sure seems like people are expecting perfection and cannot accept that A/C is a mechanical function, that might have broken just before you got on the monorail OR those trains, especially the hotel monorails, stop often with both doors open in the middle of summer in Florida, then load on a huge number of bodies all functioning at 98.6 degrees F only to do it all over again in just a couple of minutes. How fast or how powerful do we expect the AC to be to keep up with it. It's not all the time anyway, but, during high ridership times (opening/closing) I don't think god could keep it cool in those things. So many times the diagnosis if A/C broken is just nature against man situations. Nature usually wins.
Second point... in line with what was just mentioned... Florida, July, High Heat, thousands and thousands of sweaty, smelly people get on an off the monorail constantly, yet you expect it to smell like a rose. Also to repeat something I point out often. The smell that is being mistaken for urine or some other disgusting thing is the way those trains have been smelling since the first one ran. Whether it's the carpeting, or more likely the disinfecting chemical that is used daily to keep you whiners healthy is not really relevant, but, people are not generally peeing in the corner of the inside of a train car, in fact there are hardly any corners there to begin with.
Third point... can we get of the ridiculous notion that nothing ever goes wrong with mechanical things, not every thing is a lack of newness or lack of maintenance and not every thing can be predictable. One piece of a monorail, which appeared to catch on something, was torn off and fell to the ground and all of a sudden it's OMG the sky is falling. Get a grip folks. Those trains would never have run for thirty years without intensive maintenance, in fact it is likely that every part of them, with the exception of the passenger compartments have been replaced multiple times during that 30 year span. They are probably as new as one off the showroom floor in many areas.
Forth point... The monorails at WDW are nothing more then mass transit. They are multi-tasking as an attraction as a double benefit, but, never lose sight of the fact that are to take you from TTC, the MK hotels to MK and to and from Epcot. Just a fun way to do it.
And unless you stayed on it all day, you do not know if they did that or they didn't or if the other trains are available that day or that moment. The smell is also why God made personal hygiene and Right Guard!Yeah, we expect A/C to work. There are 12 trains. If A/C breaks down on one, take it offline and get a working unit into the circuit.
And the smell is why God made Febreze...
Each car has 2 ac units. If both units are working then the car should be able to keep up even with the doors open, key word is should. However, if one unit goes down but the other is still cooling it can be kept cold as long as the doors don't remain open for too long. The problem occurs primarily on the resort loop since the doors are open almost as long as they are closed. Its very noticable if you are on the side without the working unit, but the other side is indeed still sending out cold air. It comes from the vents on the two ends of the car and not the middle.Happened to us last week too a few times. It resulted in a 2 or 3 minute delay at the station.
Bigger issue for me was the two rides (I forgot which color trains) which had non-functional a/c (which has been addressed in this thread and elsewhere). For those who are doubting this situation, and have argued that the reason it was hot was because of the weather, or the fact that doors were open too long, I can attest those arguments are not valid. I'm tall, and standing on the monorail can feel the air blowing from the vents in the center ceiling area. On every other train, the air blows out nice and cold. On those two trains/cars, the air was warm recirculated air. The a/c condenser unit was clearly not working.
We've been on 4 monorails in the past 2 days, and 2 had to be shut down and have the computer rebooted. Is this now common while they work the kinks out?
Yellow has been a PITA lately. Each train has a good stretch and then something goes wrong, never know which one will be next.Just happened again. This time Monorail yellow in the mk station. On board Automation system crashed.
Interesting as they have had nothing done to them on the exterior.Black and Lime are also back in the rotation. They look nice and cleaned up!
That would be Red. Apparently got moved over and then refused anything, lol.Yellow has been a PITA lately. Each train has a good stretch and then something goes wrong, never know which one will be next.
Interesting as they have had nothing done to them on the exterior.
Coral looks horrible, but it is next up for the repaint.Haven't been painted but looks like they washed and cleaned them.
Coral is probably the worst. Never recovered from the wrap.
This actually makes me pleased. In general though, it's nice to know that this would make number four within a matter of a few months.Coral looks horrible, but it is next up for the repaint.
Millions, each.I wonder how many miles each train has on it?
Do they physically have a hour or mile meter on them? I figured they had several million miles on them considering the laps they make each day 365 a year.Millions, each.
They do have a meter on them, but it only accessible by maintenance.Do they physically have a hour or mile meter on them? I figured they had several million miles on them considering the laps they make each day 365 a year.
Do they physically have a hour or mile meter on them? I figured they had several million miles on them considering the laps they make each day 365 a year.
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