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A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. [1] More accurately, the term refers to the style of track. [note 1] Monorail systems are most frequently implemented in large cities, airports, and theme parks.
A Chongqing Rail Transit monorail train. Line 3 is the world's longest and busiest monorail line. A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single elevated rail, beam or track with the trains either supported or suspended. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or ...
Pelham Park and City Island Railroad, believed to be c. 1910 The Kearney High-Speed Railway. In 1886, the Enos Electric Company demonstrated a suspended monorail on the grounds of the Daft Electric Light Company in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey, [9] which was closer in its appearance to more modern monorails, but the most famous suspended monorail of this era was Eugen ...
Nagoya Municipal Nagoya City Higashiyama Park Monorail Line Monorail, Nagoya, Aichi, 1964 — 1974. Himeji City Monorail Line , Himeji, Hyōgo, 1965 — 1974. Meitetsu Monkey Park Monorail Line: Inuyama, Aichi, 1962–2008. It linked the Monkey Park to the nearest railway station. Nara Dreamland Monorail, Nara Dreamland, 1961 — 2006
The Las Vegas Monorail is a 3.9-mile (6.3 km) automated monorail mass transit system located adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip in Clark County, Nevada, United States.It connects several large casinos in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester just south of Las Vegas city limits.
The Meigs Elevated Railway was an experimental but unsuccessful 19th century elevated steam-powered urban rapid transit system, often described as a monorail but technically pre-electric third rail. It was invented in the US by Josiah Vincent Meigs (also known as Joe Meigs or Joe Vincent Meigs), of Lowell, Massachusetts , and was demonstrated ...
Workers at the Elon Musk–owned tunneling startup the Boring Company accidentally exposed the foundations of two pillars supporting Las Vegas's elevated monorail train last year, forcing county ...
A gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, or gyro-stabilized monorail is a single-rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of one or more spinning wheels to overcome the inherent instability of balancing atop a single rail. For a similar steerable vehicle, see Gyrocar.