The Sausage-shaped trains that almost ruled Boston - Meigs Elevated Railway 

You said it wrong.

NERD !

You’re pronouncing it how it looks like it should be pronounced 😎😎😎

You did good. Google is not pronounssiashion doctor or university teacher. 😅

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Gordon's face went redder than James's paint. Gordon: "Disgraceful!" He snorted. And puffed away.

a lot of that is economy of scale though, it's so good BECAUSE it's the most common, but because there aren't any competing designs at similar scale, we can't actually say this is the best system because nothing else has been given a genuine chance/trial

Part of the problem with modern monorails is the rail being made out of concrete, which causes a lot of problems for switching (it's slow and energy intensive). This seems to avoid, or at least reduce that issue. But the main problem with monorail is that it's only better than regular rail in fairly niche circumstances, so there never developed a standardised, non-propritary network of support infrustructure for the building and opperating of it, so every attempt at building it is stuck with proprietary systems... and then gets screwed over when the corporation Owning those systems decides it's bored with the whole monorail thing, or starts engaging in price gouging, or stops existing... and said corporation is almost always based in an entirely different Country, so impossible to reign in effectively short of just abandoning use of their systems. This system had the potential to dodge those problems simply due to where and when it was created, and the use case it was created for. It's basically just a monorail with the Potential to dodge some of what eventually became the usual downsides of regular monorails if it had actually taken off at the time. (and the historical fate of most alternatives to regular rail has been 'regular rail got better at the things it was supposed to outcompete regular rail at before it could become established, at which point it was thoroughly outcompeted due to the massive amount of mostly-standardized support infrastructure avaialble and lack of restricted propritary equipment involved in regualar rail'.)

Functionally but not exactly, by the looks of it. But it does provide basically all the same advantages with at least some of the disadvantages being reduced or eliminated... or would have if it had been electrified.

This guy does that with pretty much every video (it's not necessarily a bad thing)

Everyone is getting in line to ride Disney's giant sausages

@@TorridPrime217 Not me. I'm married, thanks.

@@TorridPrime217😟😟😟

Excellent taste

Yes. Incredibly thick headed decision of negating electric even tho his idea itself wouldn't have been affected by either propulsion system. If his revolutionary idea was the steam engine itself I would have understood it but no...

That thought occurred to me also

i love that that attitude is what killed it on both sides of the situation, his idea died because he stubbornly refused to let go of steam, and because investors and other companies stubbornly refused to update traditional rail, everyone resisted change so we got no where

Also thank you for another wonderful video!

It looks like the flanges aren't the traditional kind, but rather the whole wheel has an inverted V shape. IDK how much difference that would make.

Rusty Red Scrap Iron!

I'm old square wheels.

@@robrice7246 Well, Duck?

@@nathangitz2674 I only wish Sir, I had thought of those names myself. If the dome fits!

"Ha! Ahem!"

electric just made sense for this design, they'd already be putting up poles to carry the power to homes, so why not put a monorail on those poles, it's truly sad

@@d3str0i3r well the existing poles for the electricity wouldnt have been sufficiently strong to hold that weight, but yeah if it was both a commuter train and mains electricity rollout simultaniously, sure

Interestingly, it seems to actually avoid or reduce some of the bigger flaws in the standard monorail. Too bad about the unwillingness to electrify. It arguably Wasn't really ahead of it's time so much as at exactly the Right time... and then failed due to poor decision making.

Well, the lack of pointy bits that can clip other things on corners and such probably helped, but it's primarily a product of being built around a single rail. How cylindrical trains are seems to be largely a product of how wide their track is compared to their loading gauge.

Especially the comments section.

Maybe