Disneyland Alweg Monorail
Guests are whisked from Tomorrowland to Disneyland Hotel on board this famous "Highway in the Sky."
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TMS-4932
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Construction: 11
Onstage: 59
Backstage: 6
Articles:
25
Ride Layout:
Ride Duration:
7 minutes
Deaths Injuries:
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Video Stream:
Video Length:
23:18
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SPECIFICATIONS
Theoretical Capacity:
2100 per hour
THEORETICAL CAPACITY
This figure is what the attraction should yield under ideal conditions utilizing all units in the system with no loss in efficiency at any position. This figure should be seldom or never attained. It is an ideal against which to measure.
Instantanous Capacity:
330
Audience Control Capacity:
282
Capacity Per Unit:
110
CAPACITY PER UNIT
Capacity for each vehicle or show
Cycle Time:
9:20
CYCLE TIME
From the time a unit passes any given point in the cycle until it returns to that same point.
Unload Time:
2:30
UNLOAD TIME
From the time the guest(s) begins to unload until he is clear of the unit and the unit may be safely moved or loaded.
Load Time:
2:30
LOAD TIME
From the time the guest(s) begins to enter the unit until the guest(s) is seated and the unit is safe to dispatch.
Trip Time:
7:30
TRIP TIME
From dispatch to unload.
Dispatch Interval:
3:05
DISPATCH INTERVAL
The time interval between the dispatching of units.
Trips Per Hour:
19
Distance:
12280 feet
Speed:
20.00 MPH
Queue Factor:
Negligible
QUEUE FACTOR
Average wait time; the number of minutes from the time a guest steps into a line until he actually sets foot on an attraction. 1965
Attendance Factor:
53.9%
ATTENDANCE FACTOR
(Total Guests Carried/Total Main Gate Attendance) * 100 (1964)
Utilization Factor:
35.0%
UTILIZATION FACTOR
Capacity Percentage * Attendance Percentage (1964)
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Walt Disney and his staff didn't invent the monorail on an elevated track concept various monorails had been successfully
built and demonstrated in America since 1876 the year a steam power monorail debuted in Philadelphia Centennial exposition.
Some 80 years later, Alweg a design company name for the initials of its Swedish founder Doctor Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren
begin testing advanced monorail train and track designs in Germany.
that took sinking it into the soft Anaheim soil. There's one the pylons for the Monorail... The opening you see there is for
the Submarine Voyage ride.
were pretty brave guys
the Skyway buckets above
don't cut very well of course
The debut of the magnificent Monorail in June of 1959 was an auspicious moment in Disneyland history of the three new
e-ticket vehicles that began running that month. The Monorail was the only one intended to be a serious advance in American
transportation. The other two attractions were no doubt wonderful, but the monorail was especially significant.
So significant, in fact that Vice President Nixon was on hand for the ribbon-cutting honors. So significant, it was awarded
actually expanded to cover more than three times its original length while other vehicles made memories the
Monorail made history.
a special plaque by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1986. So significant that the Monorail service was
When a vacationing Walt Disney saw a boxy monorail train run on the rural test track near Cologne in 57. He quickly partnered
with Alweg to construct a new streamlined Disneyland version. "I think Monorail is going to be the rapid transit of the future"
Disney said and we will be giving a preview of it.
Disney Legend Bob Gurr who designed most of the parks vehicles created a tapered futuristic train, that would be as
exhilarating to watch as it would be to ride John Hench enhanced Gurr's pencil drawings with color and effects to make the
Monorail look like a horizontal rocket ship. Roger Broggie and his engineering team built the first Monorail at the Disney Studios
and Bill Martin laid out the track approximately where the Viewliner had been.
For all these imagineers the goal wasn't merely to create an attraction for fun stylish sightseeing. It was to create a
meaningful alternative to public transportation and all electric train that would glide smoothly and silently along an
elevated Highway In The Sky and convey guests in and out of Disneyland interior.
But that's not how the Monorail first operated when it opened there was only one three-car train called monorail red
trains have usually been identified by their colors and there was only one stop next to the submarines in Tomorrowland.
This meant that only 82 passengers not hundreds at a time were starting and stopping at the same point from the Tomorrowland
station. Guests looped for eight tenths of a mile around the lagoon Autopia and Matterhorn Mountain.
The view even included some of Anaheim. It was a scenic journey, but not a vital one.
Finding Dory Octopus Swims Into Submarine Lagoon
Dateline: June 27, 2022
Status: Current
Source: Orange County Register
A seven-armed octopus from “Finding Dory” with camouflaging capabilities who just wants some peace and quiet is about to become visible to thousands of Disneyland visitors and a flock of squawking seagulls after hiding beneath a tarp in the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage lagoon.
Hank the septopus from “Finding Dory” will join the cast of amphibious creatures
In June 1959 Vice President Richard Nixon Was Abducted At Disneyland
Dateline: March 11, 2022
Status: Current
Source: disneydining.com
On a warm summer Sunday in 1959, the unthinkable happened. Then-Vice President Richard Nixon was kidnapped at Disneyland, and Secret Service agents who had been by his side only moments before were completely blind-sided.
It was Sunday, June 14, 1959, and Monorail Red had yet to cooperate with Imagineers. She was scheduled to be dedicated that afternoon, and
Worlds Largest Clothes Closet Wardrobe Department
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Dateline: October 1, 1969
Status: Archive
Source: Disney News
"I suppose we could tie the world up in yarn. The amount of yardage and thread used to make costumes for Disneyland is unbelievable. I couldn't even hazard a guess how much material we use in one year."
These comments came from Tom Pierce, guardian of the world's largest clothes closet -- Disneyland's Wardrobe Department.
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Transportation Is Large Part Of Show
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Dateline: December 1, 1967
Status: Archive
Source: Disney News
One would never think that Disneyland, the most fabulous entertainment center in the world, would feature an interwoven complex of nearly every kind of transportation conceived. Transportation systems of the past, vehicles of the present and transporters of the future are a big part of the Disneyland show.
The first vehicles a Disneyland visitor encounters
New Tomorrowland Where The Dreams Of The Future Are Reality Today
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Dateline: June 1, 1967
Status: Archive
Source: Vacationland
Realizing that time had naught It wish Disneyland's Tomorrowland, Walt may and his use at WED Enterprises began research in 1964 for an entirely new Tomorrowland - a $22 million project costing $5 million more than the total initial Disneyland investment.
This complete rebuilding of Disneyland's world of Tomorrow follows Walt Disney, philosophy first
Disneyland Announces New Attractions For Fall
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Dateline: October 3, 1966
Status: Archive
Source: Pasadena Independent
Disneyland's fall schedule moves into October with three new adventures open, a fourth nearing completion special private nighttime parties for major groups and site preparations for a new Tomorrowland
During the fall, the relaxed time to see Disneyland following the summer rush, the "Magic Kingdom "is open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on
Walt Disney King Of Fantasy
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Dateline: July 1, 1965
Status: Archive
Source: Palm Springs Life
Walt Disney and friends.
Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck brought laughter to the world and whose Disneyland is a playground for the world's people, calls his home at Smoke Tree Ranch, "my laughing place."
Whimsical, as always, he refers to the Uncle Remus story where Brer Rabbit oh-so-casually mentions his "laughing place" and makes it sound so
Foamrubbersville
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Dateline: June 19, 1965
Status: Archive
Source: Saturday Review
Foamrubbersville: Los Angeles obviously believes in its own existence but it is hard for the visitor to share the native faith. The faith it self is as nebulous as it is intense-as all enduring faith should be-but one really needs to be born to it, for conversion comes hard. Like its central shrine, which is, of course, Hollywood, Los Angeles does finally flicker as if
African Veldt
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Dateline: September 6, 1964
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
Way down in Jungleland, below the Amazin' Disney line, there's news among the gnus. "The Trapped Safari" is the new headline feature and a bit of bright fun in Disneyland's far-famed Adventureland and the Jungle River Cruise. Jackals, hyenas and buzzards lay siege to a comical hunter and his retinue treed by the wild beasts. Disneyland adventurers drift safely past as
A Fantasy That Paid Off
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Dateline: June 27, 1964
Status: Archive
Source: New York Times Magazine
The place is surrounded by a berm, a high barrow of earth, that insulates it from the external world. There is a single gateway where admission is charged. This, the land of Disney, is more secure than ancient Troy. No Trojan horse will get into Disneyland. Guards at the main gate closely scrutinize all who enter. Not even an unseemly teenager will get past them, much
Onward And Upward With The Arts
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Dateline: September 7, 1963
Status: Archive
Source: New Yorker
One day last year in Los Angeles, as I was about to step aboard a helicopter that would take me to Disneyland with my teen-aged son and daughter, these two, smiling wanly, nodded toward a tourist poster that gave equal billing to our destination and to Forest Lawn cemetery. Their gesture reminded me that in earlier years they had wasted hundreds of child-hours vainly
Magic Worlds Of Walt Disney
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Dateline: August 1, 1963
Status: Archive
Source: National Geographic
Disneyland really started more than 20 years ago, when Walt got the idea for an amusement park that grownups as well as children would enjoy.
"I had all my drawing things laid out at home, and I'd work on plans for the park, as a hobby, at night."
At the time, amusement parks were dying all over the country, "I talked Disneyland but no one could see it," Walt
Monorail Fad Or Fashion
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Dateline: September 1, 1961
Status: Archive
Source: Vacationland
"The biggest stumbling block to monorail as a metropolitan rapid transit system is that it's a 'young' method of transportation. It lacks the experience and public exposure of, for example, a subway."
So says John C. Wise, Chief of Engineering for Disneyland, who has been closely associated with the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System for the past
Shake Hands With A Character
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Dateline: June 4, 1961
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
Disneyland is the place. of course. From Walt Disney's parade of cartoons and motion pictures started 38 years ago, 33 of his most famous characters will come dancing out of fantasy and out of the silver screen to cavort with patrons as the seventh summer season gets under way at the famous park.
Each year since Disneyland opened in 1955, new attractions and
New Pact Ups Disney To 3500 Weekly
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Dateline: April 18, 1961
Status: Archive
Source: Variety
Walt Disney's new seven-year pact as exec producer and general supervisor of Disneyland will be voted upon by Disney stockholders May 16 meeting in Burbank.
According to proxies sent stockholders yesterday, new deal has already been approved by Bank of America, National Trust Savings Assn., and Prudential Insurance Co. of America, from whom Disney company has made
Disneyland Guides
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Dateline: March 26, 1961
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
Speak to anyone who has toured the commercial playgrounds of the world. He will tell you that one of the cleanest, most imaginative, most efficient, most unforgettable fun centers is Disneyland.
The major reason for this is Mickey Mouse's world famous father, Walt Disney.
Disney is a man bedeviled by a perfectionist complex. According to him, "Everything can be
Disney Monorail Every Day Makes A Mouse Of The MTA
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Dateline: January 1, 1961
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
When the Metropolitan Transit Authority people quit fooling around and really want a rapid transit mass transportation system built, all they have to do is turn the problem over to Walt Disney.
Disney didn't read any reports on feasibility of monorail etc.
He saw it operate in Germany and came home and said, "build me one of those."
So his engineers went
Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom
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Dateline: April 1, 1960
Status: Archive
Source: Readers Digest
Twenty years ago," Walt said as we drove toward Disneyland, some 25 miles southeast of central Los Angeles, "I was always trying to think of a place to take my two small daughters on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon - a place where I could have fun, too.
"At an amusement park the only fun provided for a father, besides having his bottom dropped out from under him on the
Autumn And Disneyland
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Dateline: October 1, 1959
Status: Archive
Source: Vacationland
It's a wonderful, leisurely time of year to visit Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom!
Anytime is a "good time" to visit Walt Disney unique Magic Kingdom - just ask the 12 million adults and 4 million children who've already been here!
But with the Fall season, there is particular appeal and a still different enchantment about Disneyland, where guests find themselves
Disneyland Guided Tour
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Dateline: October 1, 1959
Status: Archive
Source: Vacationland
Disneyland Guided Tour - a personally conducted visit to all the realms within the Magic Kingdom - starts its second season, beginning September 14.
When it was introduced last Fall, the Tour enthusiastically received by thousands of Disneyland visitors. Their comments ranged from "wonderful" to "thoroughly enjoyable" And almost unanimously, those interviewed in
Disneyland Adds Submarine And Monorail
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Dateline: July 1, 1959
Status: Archive
Source: Popular Mechanics
Forty-Passenger submarines, a bobsled down a replica of the Matterhorn, and 82-passenger monorail trains are features of a new addition to Disneyland near Los Angeles, Calif.
Passengers on the submarines make a realistic underwater journey through coral gardens, then descend to greater depths to view the wrecks of old treasure galleons and pass under the polar icecap.
Disneyland And Son
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Dateline: June 29, 1959
Status: Archive
Source: Time
Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profit making Hollywoodsman Walt Disney build the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine-and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 million have taken up the offer. Last week 24,000, including Vice President Nixon and his family, were on hand to help Walt
The Mountain Comes To Disneyland
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Dateline: March 29, 1959
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
Six spectacular new attractions, built at a cost of 5.5 million dollars, are nearing completion at Disneyland, the greatest enlargement of the Anaheim Fairyland of entertainment since its opening in 1955.
Beginning in June, Disneyland visitors from all over the world will race in speedy bobsleds from the top of snow-capped Matterhorn Mountain; dive in submarines to
Disneyland Digs In At Anaheim
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Dateline: February 13, 1955
Status: Archive
Source: Independent Press Telegram
With opening date set for July 15, construction is going full speed ahead on Disneyland, multi-million dollar wonder of the entertainment world at Anaheim in Orange County. The total investment is expected to approximate $17 million.Grading and bulldozing are completed. Excavation of the various waterways in Disneyland is finished. Construction has started on several
Fairyland Of Yesterday And Tomorrow
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Dateline: December 1, 1954
Status: Archive
Source: Popular Mechanics
Forty passengers at a time will get a realistic impression of space travel in a huge moon rocket being built near Los Angeles as part of Walt Disney's $9,000,000 Disneyland recreation park.
Strapped to their seats, the passengers will thrill at the vibration and roar of the simulated take-off, listen to the staccato commands of the rocket captain over the intercom,
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Thomas Guy Cleveland Killed By Monorail
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Accident Date: 6/19/1966
Accident Type: Death
June 19 1966:--Thomas Guy Cleveland, a 19-year-old Northridge, CA, resident, was killed when he attempted to sneak into Disneyland along the Monorail track. Cleveland scaled the park's sixteen-foot high outer fence on a Grad Nite and climbed onto the
The Disneyland Monorail was the first operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere and the first to cross a public street. When Walt built Disneyland, he wanted complete control over the steam trains, so that he could take them out when ever he wanted. Thus, he placed the steam trains, and then later the monorails under the ownership of Retlaw and leased them back to the park. In 1982, the family decided to sell the assets of Retlaw to the Disney Company, and a holding company, Walt Disney Incorporated was formed. Eventually, the steam trains and monorails became "officially" Disneyland's property.
The Monorail only ran around Tomorrowland from 1959 through 1961 when it was extended to the Disneyland Hotel.
Bob Gurr designed the first monorail and improved it with the Mark II and Mark III's
Required a "E" ticket in 1959
Mark I trains capacity 82-3 cars per train monorail red, blue: 1959-1961
Mark II trains capacity 108-4 cars per train 3 square windows monorail red,blue,gold: 1961-1968
Mark III trains capacity 127-5 cars per train 4 wrapped windows monorail red,blue,green,gold: 1968-1986
The trip from Tomorrowland to the Disneyland Hotel is more level and has more straight-aways, drivers can run the Monorail at full speed, 35 miles per hour. The return trip, though, has several curves and a seven-degree grade near the Submarine Lagoon, so drivers are instructed to maintain a speed of fifteen miles per hour.
Initial cost to build the monorail was $1.4 million (in 2022 dollars it would be over $14.4 million)
The monorail designer was Alweg which are the initials of the owner of the company: Axel L. Wenner-Gren
In June of 1976 the Alweg logo was removed from the trains due to Alweg going broke.
The initial contract to build the monorails was given to a manufacture of garbage trucks then the studio decided to finish them up.
The original track was 8 tenths of a mile long with a maximum height of 31 feet
Track extension to the hotel cost $1.9 million (in 2014 dollars it would be over $14.9 million)
When the last of the Mark II trains were scrapped one was used to create the Mouse-O-Rail.
From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Is America's first daily operating monorail. It provides an exciting 2 1/2-mile-long trip on an elevated concrete beam-way linking Disneyland with the Disneyland Hotel. The sleek trains travel noiselessly from Tomorrowland station along Harbor Boulevard, above the Disneyland parking area, across West Street to the Disneyland Hotel station where passengers may stop over. The return trip passes Disneyland's Main Entrance and re-enters new Tomorrowland where it circles the submarine lagoon, Autopia freeways and Matterhorn Mountain. Operators, riding in an elevated control compartment at the head of the train, are in constant radio communication with both stations in the system.
Required a "E" ticket in 1970's
From WED Monorail History 2006
Silent-running Monorail trains at Disneyland. provide a preview of future transportation for America's cities playing a vital role in linking the Park with the Downtown Disney District, thus giving Guests a sweeping view of the Park from its entrance, and a glimpse of the many Attractions in the Tomorrowland and Fantasyland areas.
The Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System. the forerunner to the present Disneyland Monorail System, was unveiled at Disneyland. on June 14, 1959, by Walt Disney and Vice President Richard M. Nixon and his family at a ribbon cutting ceremony which was viewed by a national television audience. Since that time. monorail trains have carried most of the heads of state who have visited Disneyland, as well as millions of other Disneyland Guests from nearly every nation of the world!
The original monorail system at Disneyland, which opened in 1959. included two trains, one blue and one red, and covered .8 miles of track. In June of 1962 the Disneyland Monorail System was extended to the Disneyland Hotel, making it the first monorail in America to run adjacent to a major highway (Harbor Boulevard) and to cross a city street (West Street, currently renamed to Disneyland Drive).
With the addition of the Disneyland Hotel to the Monorail route, the track was extended to a total length of 12,300 feet or nearly 2 1/2 miles. To whisk Disneyland Hotel Guests to the Park, new trains were designed to accommodate more Guests (2,100 hourly). Three trains were made. The new Mark II trains had four cars and a capacity of 108 passengers utilizing four 55 horsepower motors with a trip time of 6 minutes and 45 seconds from the Hotel to the Tomorrowland Station. And a cycle time of 9 minutes and 20 seconds. Trips per hour, approximately 19.5!
As demand for additional capacity grew, so did the Monorail System. In 1969, four new Mark III, (five car monorails) were unveiled. The carrying capacity was 124 Guests with four 100 horsepower motors. costing approximately S2.3 million dollars.
This demonstrated Watt Disney's dedication to stay at the forefront of technology.
The Ideas for monorail transportation be-came a reality in 1825. When on June 25th of that year the Cheshunt Railway opened. Originally. It was built to carry bricks. On its opening day it made monorail history by carrying passengers as well. It was horse-powered. A horse walking on the ground was connected via rope and harness to the carriages sitting on the beam! Since that time monorail transportation has been improved and added upon to meet the daily needs of the world's commuters. The oldest monorail line can be found in Wuppertal, Germany. Opening in 1901. it has survived two world wars and can carry 65,000 present-day passengers to 18 stations along it's 8.26 miles of track. The longest operating monorail track can be found in Florida at Walt Disney World Resort. Twelve Mark VI monorails with a capacity of 365 Guests pre train, traverse approximately 14.66 miles of track. Currently there are approximately 36 operating monorail systems world-wide with many more scheduled to open in the next few years.
The Disneyland system was based on an experimental monorail developed in 1952 by Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gran of Cologne, Germany. When Walt Disney and Vice President Nixon and his family cut the ribbon on the sparkling new $1.3 million transportation system seven years latter the Mark I trains were christened the "Disneyland-Alweg Monorail".
In 1971 the Mark IV monorail system was introduced to the public at Walt Disney World near Orlando Florida. The initial fleet 10 Mark IV's was expanded to 12. The Mark IV trains were replaced by the Mark VI model, two of the old Mark IV trains operated in Las Vegas until the city introduced their new monorail system on July 15, 2004.
With the arrival of 1984, the engineer's at Watt Disney Imagineering (WDI) began work with Messerschmitt, Bolkow and Blohm of Munich, Germany, on designs for the Mark V. The next generation of monorail trains to replace Disneyland's.. Mark III monorails. On April 12, 1988 the last trip of "Old Red", Mark Ill took place as the new Mark V trains were brought on line. The Mark V trains use the chassis of the old Mark III trains and cost approximately $6 million dollars. The familiar "driver bubble" was gone in favor of a more sleek profile. With a molded, lightweight fiberglass body and onboard computer control. In 1997 the Mark V trains were upgraded to operate backwards at full speed (35 mph) as necessitated by the construction of Disney's California Adventure in the old Disneyland parking lot. Yet again demonstrating the diversity of monorail design.
With the opening of the Downtown Disney District in 2001 the old Hotel Station was demolished and re-opened as the new Downtown Disney Monorail Station. This new station opened up the new Resort area to Guests visiting the Park who wished to visit the high energy shopping, dining, and entertainment district. Also opening on February 8, 2001 was Disney's California Adventure. The monorails now traversed from Tomorrowland through the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and through Disney's Grand Californian Hotel on their way to the Downtown Disney Station.
Again in Late 2006 the monorails were upgraded to travel in reverse service as necessitated by the construction of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.
Today the Monorail continues to offer the "Transportation of the Future" to thousands of visiting Disneyland Resort Guests. As the Mark V Monorail ends its life span on the beam new Mark VII Monorail will be debuting in late 2007.
Control: Monorail One, you are now cleared for dispatch.
Monorail One: Roger, Control.
Pilot: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail. This is the Pilot speaking to you from the Control Center. During our journey, we ask that you keep your head and arms inside the train at all times, and no smoking, please.
You're riding aboard the Mark III, an advanced, new, second-generation design* of the first daily operating monorail system in the Western hemisphere, introduced right here in Disneyland in 1959.
We're traveling over the ''Highway in the Sky'' on a two-point-five mile round trip to the Disneyland Hotel and back. Our route parallels Orange County's Harbor Boulevard, a major access route, which you probably used to enter the Magic Kingdom.
We're cruising at a height of twenty feet above the ground, and we're maintaining constant radio communication with our dispatching station. I'll be increasing our ground speed as we cross Disneyland's one-hundred-fifteen-acre parking area, our ''freeway retreat'', as many of you have called it.
Across the Parking Area is Disneyland's Main Entrance. In the opposite direction you can see the City of Anaheim's Convention Center. Directly ahead is the spacious Disneyland Hotel, offering complete, year-around resort facilities for your enjoyment.
Monorail One: Monorail One on Hotel approach.
Control: Roger, One. Hotel Station clear for approach.
Pilot: We'll be making a brief stop at the Hotel Station. For those of you who boarded our Monorail in Tomorrowland, this is the halfway point.
We'll be making a brief stop at the Hotel Station. For those of you who boarded our Monorail in Tomorrowland, this is the halfway point. You may disembark if you wish, and by having your hand stamped, you may reboard the Monorail here at the Hotel anytime prior to Disneyland's closing time today.
This is the Disneyland Hotel Station. Those of you disembarking, please exit to the rear of the Monorail.
Control: Monorail One, you are clear for Hotel dispatch.
Monorail One: Ten-four, Control.
Pilot: Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Pilot speaking from the Control Center. To those of you who have just joined us, welcome aboard the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, America's first daily operating monorail system. We ask that you keep your hands and arms inside the compartment at all times, and no smoking, please.
We are now on a re-entry course, back into the Magic Kingdom. Destination: Tomorrowland, World of the Future. We'll soon be passing Disneyland's Main Entrance, the gateway to Main Street, U.S.A., where turn-of-the-century America is relived.
Above the Entrance is Disneyland's Main Street Station. Our 1890 steam trains depart from here and stations in Frontierland and Tomorrowland, for a grand circle tour of the Magic Kingdom, climaxed by a journey through the Grand Canyon and Primeval World, realm of the dinosaurs.
As we return to Tomorrowland, we remind you to please keep your hands and arms inside the compartment at all times.
Disneyland's New Tomorrowland is a world on the move, a showcase for the wonderful worlds of science and industry, where some of America's leading companies welcome you into adventures in transportation, communications, and better living.
Below our Monorail is the Autopia Freeway, where youngsters of all ages drive real, gasoline-powered cars, and the colorful Submarine Lagoon, home of the world's eighth-largest submarine fleet. Towering high above is Matterhorn Mountain, with its two thrilling Bobsled runs.
Monorail One: Monorail One, 10-20 at Checkpoint Fantasyland.
Control: Roger, One, we have your 10-20.
Pilot: We're now entering Fantasyland, home of Snow White, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and many others of your favorite Walt Disney characters. Fantasyland is also the enchanting home of it's a small world, the happiest cruise that ever sailed around the world.
Now we are leaving the world of fantasy to begin our approach to the Tomorrowland Station. As we round the Matterhorn, please keep your head and arms inside the compartment.
Monorail One: Monorail One on Tomorrowland approach.
Control: Roger, One, Tomorrowland Station clear for approach.
Monorail One: Ten-Four. Monorail One out.
Pilot: Please remain seated until the Monorail comes to a complete stop. The doors will open automatically. As you step from the compartment, lower your head, watch your step and please exit as directed.
Thank you for joining us on the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System, and have a happy day in Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom.
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