Monorail_Red wrote:Cool shots!
I have a video from last summer during Fay while the monorails were backed up from the POV from my Contemporary Tower Room...Green had an air leak on resort and Blue was switching and the spur track got hit by lightning...
Aw, I was hoping you would get a shot of Blue being struck. Blue seems like the unlucky train when it comes to getting struck by ligntning. As one of my trainers told me, when driving in a lightning storm, don't hold on to your microphone, as that makes a nice complete circuit through you.... and one pilot found that out the hard way. He did survive and is alive today, but I understand he felt kinda crispy for a little while. And Blue being struck by lightning a lot explains something that just sort of hit me, along with why Blue has such a bad attitude sometimes: God hates Monorail Blue, and so should we.
nbodyhome wrote:Funny, this reminds me of the Wikipedia post where some moron was arguing with 2 monorail drivers (both which I know well) - one of the drivers had been a trainer, and the guy was arguing "well, you might have been a trainer, but I have 30 years experience riding in the front cab"! I thought that was hilarious. Talk about stupid guests.
Could you post the link if you know where it is (or still exists)? And could you PM me the two pilots you know? I'll say hi for you.
kurtisnelson wrote:Sure. As long as I can fit a tripod there, it can be done. These shots were done with a technique called HDR which requires at least 3 exposures with very little movement, so a tripod is needed.
Ooooh! I've been wanting to get into HDR for a while. You get some AWESOME results. For those not in the know, it's a great way to make a camera see the world a little more the way our human eyes do, but even more fantastical. Kurtis's picture of Black coming out of Contemporary could not have been HDR... unless the pilot put it into P5 too early for the hill and got an overspeed, or was holding too short of 45.
EDIT: Actually, looking at it, it looks like Black was stopped, it looks like it might be HDR, and by where Black is stopped for the holdpoint, it might be me driving. Few pilots stop that close... I pull way out so that if the pilot behind me gets a red, it's NOT my fault. Next time I drive Express, I'll have to look at that, and where the train is in that picture compared to my reality of how I drive. What day was that taken, and what time? There's actually a fairly decent chance it was me.
Zazu wrote:Inside and out my butt! Even *I* don't make that claim.
I don't know if there's anyone other than
maybe Dave Smith who would, and even him I don't know.
Dave Smith... one of the few people, in one of the few companies, for whom "Company Historian" is an honor and makes him someone many of us would like to meet.
Monorail_Red wrote:Are these orange things said transmitters? I always see them at a holdpoint and a station. & From the POLY, if you're walking out of the lobby on the 1st level under the monorail platform, you can look up at the beam and see three of these within inches of each other?
I don't think that it's regenerative. Too bad something else couldn't be done with that energy other than burning it off. Anybody ever notice the burn marks in the Contemporary on the low ceiling where the resort trains stop?
Actually, I am not sure what the orange things are, but they are not part of the MAPO System. Actually, next time you're here I'll show you what the hold points look like from the ground.
BRWombat wrote:So... while all this monorail info is flying around, will one of you please post the speed limits for the system???
Right now I just drive around at 40 MPH (or faster!) and brake as necessary, but it's not that realistic.
Unless you're riding with me, as I do everything I can to keep that monorail as close as possible to 40 mph at all times. Going down hills in a 30 mph zone, I can get pretty close to 40.
My opinions are mine and mine only. If my opinions are the opinion of others who happen to share whatever my crazy views may be, then fine, but it's not because I represent them in having my opinions. Got it?
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