Today, a special monorail edition! Showcasing the finest one railed contraptions the web has to offer!
Here we have the Lartigue Monorail Locomotives - 0-6-0 steam locomotives that rely on a saddle type weight to stay on the rails...
The Aerotrain - fantastical french engineering. Gallery of images here, full story (with no pictures :-( ) here.
....and what do you do with almost 7km of redundant aerotrain test track? Well, build a pentacycle to cycle along it!
Ah... wikipedia.... here detailing the delights of gyroscopic monorails.
Something about them must be great, there's even a Monorail Society!
Over 100 years old and still going strong, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
A whole blog dedicated to the glory of Monorail Cat.
Good to see the chaps at Berkeley aren't wasting their research funding on err.... stuff like cataloguing futuristic monorail ideals of the past....
A slightly uncomfortably detailed record of Disney's various monorail systems
And lastly, when you're stuck on First Capital Connect this evening - dream wistfully of a new maglev network for the UK...
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The monorail switch/crossing/turntable on the Lartigue Monorail is quite interesting...it would definately make a very interesting model. I cannot see how this type of locomotive and associated cumbersome equipment etc could be more economical than conventional rail.
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