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Monorail 1984 

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This is the 7.8 mile trip from the Ticket and Transportation Center to EPCOT that I shot in 1984. A practically identical video shot from the pilot's cabin in 2006 can be seen at a RU-vid video called "WDW EPCOT MONORAIL FRONT VIEW." In both videos, it's monorail yellow arriving. If you watch both videos simultaneously, side-by-side, you can see just how much things have changed in 22 years. WARNING!: If you actually DO this, you qualify as a Disney obsessee with a lot of time on your hands!
At the end of this video is a short dedication to Austin Wuennenberg, the 21-year-old young man who lost his life in the early morning hours of July 5th while shuttling a very few passengers back to the TTC. Austin had likely been enjoying his July 4th evening, doing something he loved, carefully and thoughtfully, when fate stepped-in. Of all those involved in Austin's death, it seems he was the only one doing everything right. Austin was, and is, a hero.
Quoting a reader's comment from the Orlando Sentinel, "Sounds to me like the ONLY person who didn't have the ability to stop this from happening is the one innocent young man who died."
The Austin montage near the end of this video is credited to Mom2i&e on Flickr. www.flickr.com/....
The final photo composition at the end is credited to Kiki FL. www.flickr.com/...

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@Clam73
@Clam73 13 лет назад
Wish you had video of them closing the doors...That was my favorite to watch the CM walk along the monorail and shut the doors...Also liked it when the monorail person would push the buttons and the doors would open and have almost a "pop-crack" type of sound.
@FrankG5874
@FrankG5874 13 лет назад
1984 I went to Disney World that Summer with my folks and my Aunt, and this trip would mark the first time we would go with my mom's friend and her family. Also that year my fourth girlfriend was born, and I was ten years old. Plus The Cosby Show debuted on NBC and that brought NBC back from the DEAD! So 1984 was a good year.
@metropolan
@metropolan 14 лет назад
@anomalousclouds Thanks for watching, Ross! I'm single and in my 50's, and I STILL wish I could go back and ride in the front of the monorail again.
@nholt
@nholt 12 лет назад
Wow awesome video! Now that is the Epcot I remember as a kid! My first trip to WDW was in '84.
@metropolan
@metropolan 13 лет назад
@FrankG5874 Thank you, Frank! I love the Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Yes, 1984 was a good year. We were all a lot younger!
@JMCMnice
@JMCMnice 15 лет назад
This video does NOT suck. For the technology of the time, its pretty amazing. Thank you for sharing your memories with us. It is so cool to see EPCOT the way it was twenty years ago.
@metropolan
@metropolan 13 лет назад
Wow...I watched your WDW video. Very nice HD work! Very nice editing and sound editing! I notice these things! Felt like I was there for a few minutes. I remember those door buttons, and the sound they made, too. It was the row of black buttons on the outside behind the pilot's door, right? I just watched it again just now, and I think there are a few muffled door clicks at 0:57. Just the same, a clean, close shot of the doors popping open would've been fun. Can you say solenoid actuators?
@anomalousclouds
@anomalousclouds 14 лет назад
Very cool upload. As a kid (and still today) I've always been kind of a closet railbuff, and the WDW monorails from the standpoint of a child were the motherload. Only visited WDW with family twice and I was never old enough to go off on my own, I would have loved to ride the monorails just for the hell of it. Perhaps I'll go back when I have kids one day. (although I loathe screaming little brats and theme park lines!) haha.
@griff04
@griff04 4 года назад
Love this. Thank you so much.
@metropolan
@metropolan 15 лет назад
Thanks for watching, and for your comments, board, JMCM, and spbuc5. We were wondering how a dead man is supposed to toggle a switch! I know this video is a 'mundane' monorail ride, but I knew it might have some meaning to certain people.
@griff04
@griff04 4 года назад
You brought back my childhood in one video. I going to share with my family.
@metropolan
@metropolan 4 года назад
How nice. Thank you!
@TimSampson_IAm
@TimSampson_IAm 15 лет назад
Thanks for the fantastic video! So great to see Horizons and World of Motion.
@metropolan
@metropolan 15 лет назад
Aww. Thanks.
@metropolan
@metropolan 14 лет назад
@pfmf03 Thank-you, Mark. Thanks for watching!
@board57796
@board57796 15 лет назад
The "Dead Man" is a device that the pilot must have engaged in order for the train to keep moving. In the MkIV's (the train you were on) its the button on the left side of the throttle. On the MkVIs it is the way you hold the throttle itself. The "dead man" is there so that if the pilot becomes incapacitated and released the "dead man", the train will stop itself, instead of continue on with no one at the controls.
@attackeagle
@attackeagle 14 лет назад
i actually did run both side by side. Wow. I miss the old mkIV monorails and the old MK and Epcot.
@spbuc5
@spbuc5 15 лет назад
Impressively rare in some bizarre way.
@metropolan
@metropolan 14 лет назад
Sorry for the slow response, Sideslide. I haven't been here in a while. You probably figured it out by now, but... That other track isn't the return track from Epcot...it's the 'spur' that connects the Epcot 'loop' to the Magic Kingdom 'loop'. It's only used after hours as a way for the Epcot monorails to make their way back to the garage for the night. If you check out a map of the entire monorail system, you can see where the two tracks join together again.
@metropolan
@metropolan 12 лет назад
Thanks for watching, leedavidt! Now I'm looking forward to watching all of the fun things on your channel!
@metropolan
@metropolan 11 лет назад
It just wasn't there yet.
@metropolan
@metropolan 14 лет назад
@utubeguy35 You watched all the way to the end....right?
@metropolan
@metropolan 14 лет назад
@utubeguy35 Thanks utubeguy35! Why, when I click on your name, do I get a page that states, "Wow, you can be the first to submit a question!"
@yensid40
@yensid40 15 лет назад
we're Russians. haha 80's
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