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?
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.
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.
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.
1984 was an epic year. It introduced the Ghostbusters, the awesome Ghostbusters song, and this epic monorail. I kind of like this monorail a little better than the Mark VIs. BRING TEH 80S BAK!
@metropolan - The Mark IV actually looks cool! Your video is awesome! I guess back in 1984, it was against park rules to film the cockpit of a monorail. But in the 2000s, I don't see people saying "ERASE THAT TAPE!" Mark VIs are made since 1989, and have a touch screen since 2007.
@metropolan - when i went to WDW in 2006, i got to ride in the front seat. The controls on the Mark VI (1989-) were so much newer, but this was before the upgrade in 2007 to a touch screen system. Since July 5th, 2009, you can't ride there anymore due to the fatal accident that killed a driver on Monorail Purple(?)
@metropolan- actually at 1:21, the Dead Man Bypass is important. You see, the pilot has to hold a button when the train goes on. If the pilot goes unconscious or dies, conditions won't let him hold that button. If (s)he lets go of the button, it shuts off the train and stops it. The Dead Man Bypass is used to restart the train.
hey thats the old Mark IV monorail at WDW that was my very first monorail ride. if you watch closely you see the doors swings out like the car doors .
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.
sorry but the last time I went to WDW in September of 2008 this track does the big loop from the epcot center to the Ticket center, and you take the next train and go from the ticket center to WDW. and yes I've ridden the Mark iV monoriail before, one was in December of 1988 when I was 5, and one in Las Vegas in summer of 2000 when it goes from MGM grand to Balleys hotel, before the vegas monorail extension.
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.
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.
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?
metropolan 9 months ago
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.
rmikeyp73 9 months ago
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.
FrankG5874 1 year ago
@FrankG5874 Thank you, Frank! I love the Magic Kingdom and Epcot.
Yes, 1984 was a good year. We were all a lot younger!
metropolan 1 year ago
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.
anomalousclouds 1 year ago
@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.
metropolan 1 year ago
1984 was an epic year. It introduced the Ghostbusters, the awesome Ghostbusters song, and this epic monorail. I kind of like this monorail a little better than the Mark VIs. BRING TEH 80S BAK!
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@metropolan - The Mark IV actually looks cool! Your video is awesome! I guess back in 1984, it was against park rules to film the cockpit of a monorail. But in the 2000s, I don't see people saying "ERASE THAT TAPE!" Mark VIs are made since 1989, and have a touch screen since 2007.
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@metropolan - Yeah, I saw the tribute, i just forgot his name, that's all!
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@metropolan - when i went to WDW in 2006, i got to ride in the front seat. The controls on the Mark VI (1989-) were so much newer, but this was before the upgrade in 2007 to a touch screen system. Since July 5th, 2009, you can't ride there anymore due to the fatal accident that killed a driver on Monorail Purple(?)
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@utubeguy35
You watched all the way to the end....right?
metropolan 1 year ago
@metropolan - and i didnt know you wanted this video to be on KNBC Los Angelos TV in California!
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@metropolan - Thanks for appreciating my answer, and im asking what the next film on my account should be, so you can submit a question!
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@metropolan- actually at 1:21, the Dead Man Bypass is important. You see, the pilot has to hold a button when the train goes on. If the pilot goes unconscious or dies, conditions won't let him hold that button. If (s)he lets go of the button, it shuts off the train and stops it. The Dead Man Bypass is used to restart the train.
utubeguy35 1 year ago
@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!"
metropolan 1 year ago
FANTASTIC video; thanks for sharing!!! And no, it does not suck!
pfmf03 1 year ago
@pfmf03
Thank-you, Mark. Thanks for watching!
metropolan 1 year ago
i actually did run both side by side. Wow.
I miss the old mkIV monorails and the old MK and Epcot.
attackeagle 2 years ago
Wow I thought it was filmed in 2010, it's so futuristic!
charliebad 2 years ago
we're Russians. haha 80's
Yensid40 2 years ago
Thanks for the fantastic video! So great to see Horizons and World of Motion.
timsamp1969 2 years ago
hey thats the old Mark IV monorail at WDW that was my very first monorail ride. if you watch closely you see the doors swings out like the car doors .
sideslide23 2 years ago
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.
metropolan 2 years ago
I thought there were two tracks when I last went here last year going from Epcot centers what happened at 2:27 ?
sideslide23 2 years ago
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 2 years ago
sorry but the last time I went to WDW in September of 2008 this track does the big loop from the epcot center to the Ticket center, and you take the next train and go from the ticket center to WDW. and yes I've ridden the Mark iV monoriail before, one was in December of 1988 when I was 5, and one in Las Vegas in summer of 2000 when it goes from MGM grand to Balleys hotel, before the vegas monorail extension.
sideslide23 2 years ago
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.
board57796 2 years ago
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.
JMCMnice 2 years ago
Aww. Thanks.
metropolan 2 years ago
Impressively rare in some bizarre way.
spbuc5 2 years ago