Alex... your videos truly are the best Disneyland content on RU-vid. The archive footage that you find is always amazing and your narration is top notch. Thank you for all of your hard work!
I love both Disney monorails (State side) Have ridden in the front w/ driver in both parks. Sadly you cannot ride in Florida in the front anymore. They both offer different experiences. While I'm 5'-8" tall 2" shorter than Walt. I have to "duck" to get into DL's monorail. I love the "show" you get @ DL. Climbing turning, going over a city roadway & to another Disney park. The back car has A/C in Cali. What a treat! In Florida, it could technically be your 1st Dis. ride. My next...WDW Railroad of course. 4 a Grand Circle Tour.
I’ve been meaning to mention, your background music for your vids is so perfect, something about it is really nostalgic, but also really calming and does not in anyway mess with the narration. I’m so glad I’ve found your channel, literally lifts my spirits every time a new vid is posted!
Thank you, I'm very careful about what music tracks I use, with this video in particular I had just finished placing the music and watched the whole thing through, only to realize the music didn't fit with the narration, so I took it all out and put this lineup of music instead. Takes a long time, so thank you for noticing!
@@AlextheHistorian The music you choose usually has a sort of magical, happy, nostalgic sort of feeling which for me fits Disneyland (and therefore your videos) perfectly.
The Monorail, the railroad, and the defunct people mover are the best rides at Disneyland when you've been walking for miles all day long, especially in those hot Summer days.
Man, this video is awesome! I actually love seeing the view liner pass by a few feet away from the Disneyland Railroad too. I enjoy admiring a contrast between the railroad of the past and of the future as well. However, I do love the monorail the best. This is all inspiring to me.
Another great video. I remember the first monorails. I remember the pilot letting me sit in his seat and look out the top dome. Can’t wait to see part 2. Thanks
It's interesting to note that the two GM Aerotrains (which the "Viewliner" train is based on) built back in the mid 1950s still exist, though not complete. One Aerotrain (locomotive and two cars) exists at the National Museum of Transportation at Kirkwood, MO and the other one (again, locomotive and two cars) at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI. Terrific story on the "mass transit" system history at Disneyland's "Tomorrowland." Thanks for sharing!
8:08 This Disneyland Monorail Train Looks Like The Pacific Atlantic Monorail Train From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965. Awesome. Thanks Mate. X
I recently came across your Chanel and I’m addicted to your videos. They’re so well constructed and informative. Your information in this video on the cement type and PSI ratings per casting is the answer I’ve been searching for.. every day I’m at work I look up at the monorail tracks and I’ve always had so many questions. Thank you for the work you do to make this awesome videos!! 👍🏼👍🏼
Another Fantastic video! Fun to watch, and very enjoyable! Brings back a lot of fun memories too! I can remember riding the modern monorail into the Disney hotel from Disneyland, and it was a lot of fun. Now even the hotel is only a memory!
Oh and I’m wrong… My bad, I actually did research that wasn’t my assumption as a little kid. The ZooLiner is based on the GMC AeroTrain. Which the ViewLiner drew inspiration from. Whoops, but anyhow it’s pretty close experience. I much would’ve preferred the ViewLiner’s slow turning Olds V8 with an Hydramatic Transmission geared into the locomotives trucks. . Think final gear at 30 mph in an Automatic V8 car just loafing around at 1800 rpm with the efficiency of steel wheels on steel. to the sorta noisy smaller industrial style engine to proper hydraulic drives on the ZooLiner.
Another nice video Alex. A lot of folks are of the belief that the Tomorrowland train station was the old Viewliner station, so thanks for pointing out that they actually coexisted for some time.
The rear car of the early Monorails sure remind me of a 1959 Cadillac. Another enjoyable watch, great narration, great vintage footage and outstanding editing. Looking forward to part two already. Thank you for your HOURS of work and effort you do for us the viewer. Happy Thanksgiving.....
Alweg also built the monorail for the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle in 1962. It still operates a daily schedule today. It suffered a brake failure in 1980 that sent the train crashing into the Seattle Center station. Since Alweg was long out of business, the damaged parts had to be locally fabricated from the original drawings.
I always enjoy watching your history videos. I noticed you are gaining lots of new viewers. Keep up the exquisitely done work ! You put lots of time and research into each of them. Hope you'll be able to come back down here soon to live again.
Actually that is a tie pin from the Palm Springs resort Smoke Tree Ranch, the pin is in the initials STR. Walt considered Smoke Tree Ranch his "home away from home".
Because it was causing a lot of animosity among people who thought I was using the word "historian" to gain notoriety. The more popular my channel got, the more frequent and intense the arguments got. I even got a death threat, the name just wasn't worth the trouble.
The Disney monorails are loud, not as much as a city bus, but they are. (That's because they are very old, with their hardware and design dating back to the 80s) However a modern Bombardier Innovia 300 is very quiet.
@@AlextheHistorian … you’re supposed to answer “It glides as softly as a cloud” do I really need to explain this classic? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZDOI0cq6GZM.html
They did. For the last few years, each monorail was sent away one by one to be rebuilt and restored. There are still one or two monorails left that need to be sent away, but almost all of them have been restored at a cost of $15 million
The biggest blunder a city mayor has ever done was the one done by the Mayor of Los Angeles at the time the monorail was built. The company that built the monorail offered to create a series of interconnected monorails in Los Angeles, going all the way down to Santa Monica Beach, Hollywood, Mid Wiltshire and Downtown FREE OF CHARGE!!!! The mayor opted for…wait for it…city buses!!! Can you imagine how that could have grown into something absolutely modern today if that monorail system was built??!!! How that could have changed how people look at Los Angeles and Hollywood? Wow, what a colossal screw up!
