monorails
One-rail transit vehicles
Monorails are rail systems where vehicles run on or hang from a single track, typically elevated.
The streamlined design makes monorails popular at airports, theme parks, and urban transit systems, where they suggest sleek modernity: The monorail glided silently above the crowded streets.
Despite decades of futuristic promise, monorails remain novelties rather than mainstream transit.
Structural support member
- suspendedHalted or hanging temporarily
- straddleSit with legs spanning
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- wheelsCircular rotation devices
bogies · switches · infrastructure · pylons · concrete · steel · support · cantilever
Marks showing passage
- stationsFixed stops on routes
- passengersTransported travelers
- commutersDaily work travelers
- transitMovement between places
elevated · carriages · platforms · tickets · routes · fares · schedules · conductors
California theme park
- DisneyMajor entertainment conglomerate
- theme parksAttractions built around concepts
- futuristicSuggestive of times ahead
- TomorrowlandFuturistic theme park area
Seattle · Tokyo · Las Vegas · sightseeing · tourists · scenic · observation · gondolas
Animated TV family
- TomorrowlandFuturistic theme park area
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- retroEvoking recent past
- space ageSleekly modern, satellite-era
Jetsons · midcentury · world fairs · modernist · optimism · streamlined · atomic age · visionary
beam
Structural support member
- suspendedHalted or hanging temporarily
- straddleSit with legs spanning
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
wheels · bogies · switches · infrastructure · pylons · concrete · steel · support · cantilever · maglev
tracks
Marks showing passage
- stationsFixed stops on routes
- passengersTransported travelers
- commutersDaily work travelers
transit · elevated · carriages · platforms · tickets · routes · fares · schedules · conductors · terminals
Disneyland
California theme park
- DisneyMajor entertainment conglomerate
- theme parksAttractions built around concepts
- futuristicSuggestive of times ahead
Tomorrowland · Seattle · Tokyo · Las Vegas · sightseeing · tourists · scenic · observation · gondolas · resorts
Simpsons
Animated TV family
- TomorrowlandFuturistic theme park area
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- retroEvoking recent past
Jetsons · space age · midcentury · world fairs · modernist · optimism · streamlined · atomic age · visionary · obsolete
- transportationcar, bus, airplane, train, plane
- transitbus, subway, train, metro, buses
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
- material handlingforklifts, lifting, conveyors, carrying, cranes
- retrofuturismray guns, jetpacks, rocket ships, space helmets, bubble helmets
- Transit Historystreetcars, trams, trolleys, electric trams, steam trains
monorailstrams
Rail-bound urban transit
streetcars · light rail · heavy rail · subway systems · metro systems
monorailsbuses
Multi-passenger road vehicles
automobiles · ferries · helicopters · roads · bicycles
- monorail systemSingle-track elevated transit