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RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-02-2017
Correct! The centre, vertical steel guide wheel on the bogies only engages on switches. It means the primary guide rails can be simple and fixed.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Monorail Day Stop 1: the Wuppertal Schwebebahn!
https://twitter.com/canardiain/status/882878466458300416
Next up: Dortmund University Siemens SIPEM Monorail.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - jamincan - 07-06-2017
I have to say, I'm a bit ho-hum about monorail, but i love the Wuppertal Schebebahn. There's something beautiful and almost Eiffel Tower-esque about it that concrete systems seem to lack. Similar elevated railways like the systems in Chicago and New York just don't seem to have the same elegance to them.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Kids rush aboard excited. Everyone goes to the back of the train to take photos. Drivers wave to people on the ground, and I even saw an elderly gentleman with his chair set up on a bridge over the river, under the tracks, looking up at every train as it went by. I'll never forget it.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Monorail Day Stop 2: the Siemens H-Bahn at Dortmund University!
https://twitter.com/canardiain/status/882942872965836800
I love this system, and I wish this is what we had in Waterloo Region. The sections over the green spaces and trails make me think of what Waterloo Park could have looked like instead.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - kps - 07-06-2017
(07-06-2017, 10:15 AM)Canard Wrote: The sections over the green spaces and trails make me think of what Waterloo Park could have looked like instead.
To be fair, that's not entirely due to mode. Waterloo Park could look like this instead of like crap if our various elected representatives wanted it to.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - timc - 07-06-2017
Quote:To be fair, that's not entirely due to mode. Waterloo Park could look like this instead of like crap if our various elected representatives wanted it to.
There is a fence missing from that picture.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - kps - 07-06-2017
(07-06-2017, 11:20 AM)timc Wrote:Quote:To be fair, that's not entirely due to mode. Waterloo Park could look like this instead of like crap if our various elected representatives wanted it to.
There is a fence missing from that picture.
“I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.”
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Monorail Day Stop3: the Düsseldorf SkyTrain!
https://twitter.com/canardiain/status/882983696986513409
This is another Siemens SIPEM monorail, or H-Bahn. This one is like a full-scale implementation of the technology in a higher-capacity setting. I loved comparing all the differences between it and the Dortmund installation back-to-back!
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - urbd - 07-06-2017
(07-06-2017, 12:08 PM)Canard Wrote: Monorail Day Stop3: the Düsseldorf SkyTrain!
https://twitter.com/canardiain/status/882983696986513409
This is another Siemens SIPEM monorail, or H-Bahn. This one is like a full-scale implementation of the technology in a higher-capacity setting. I loved comparing all the differences between it and the Dortmund installation back-to-back!
Awesome! but only a couple stations right?
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Wuppertal is about 20 stops, Dortmund and Düsseldorf are smaller peoplemover-sized systems with about 5 stations each.
(The number of stops has nothing to do with the technology, if that's where you were going)
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - urbd - 07-06-2017
(07-06-2017, 02:08 PM)Canard Wrote: Wuppertal is about 20 stops, Dortmund and Düsseldorf are smaller peoplemover-sized systems with about 5 stations each.
(The number of stops has nothing to do with the technology, if that's where you were going)
I wasn't going anywhere, I was just asking!
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - Canard - 07-06-2017
Okay
Sorry, just a little on the defence when it comes to monorails. Way too many haters out there! Cheers.
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - tomh009 - 07-06-2017
I love these displays (from the Helsinki Ring Rail line, using Stadlet FLIRT train sets).
On the platform:
Station indication inside the train:
Top speed!
RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - KevinL - 07-20-2017
Honolulu's plan is running into trouble.