monorail

“I don’t think there’s any other option but to move forward with the project,” said Daisuke Hasegawa, a 23-year-old monorail driver in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, referring to the Futenma relocation plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Theme park operator Flamingo Land wants to build a £40m resort called Lomond Banks, featuring a waterpark, monorail, hotel and restaurants.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion “doom buggies” and more, isn’t slowing down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Gurr recalls one day in which he was working on a half-built monorail train in a soundstage and was paid a visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Lenina, meanw hile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Gurr’s defining Disney creations — the sci-fi-inspired monorails of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, the first implementation of a tubular steel coaster in the Matterhorn — are just a small fraction of his résumé.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Before entrepreneurs in Seattle won fame selling computer software or takeout coffee across the globe, the city’s vision of Century 21 soared on monorails.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Most U.S. monorails run in short loops around amusement parks or between airport terminals.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

“I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!”

From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2019

The aircraft, the high-speed auto-trucks over modern speedways, the aeroplane-motored monorails, the rocket-trains—all these shortened distance.

From Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various