The Doppelmayr Garaventa Monorack is a decades-old product. I’ve no idea how I missed it before. But for the third video in the Monorail Trilogy, this isn’t an advert: I’m just happy to be proved wrong. ▪ More about the Monorack: https://www.doppelmayr.com/products/monorack/
Previously, Wuppertal in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4KZLcvMQWg (I’m not proud of this video — the Tim Traveller has done a much better video on the system here, and you should probably watch that instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFh6wFTJiQ )
And the Roadmachines monorail in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irv3KJR6B80
(Thanks also to Grotto de Peo in Ronco sopra Ascona. If you’re ever in the area, their food is delicious.)
Camera: Alicja Pahl
Producer: Sebastian Capeda at Viven https://viven.ch
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I didn't realise, on the day, how strange the camera shots of under the rail would look! To be absolutely clear: the rail is static, the wheels are moving. But because the camera's also moving, you're getting the same effect that makes car wheels look like they're going backwards sometimes. Hopefully it's obvious what's going on!
Isn't a zipline kind of a monorail?
Looks very much like the monorail featured in the anime film, Letter to Momo, set in a village of terraced farms.
what about the monorail in Kuala Lumpur? it seems to fit into the cities traffic system quite well
Monorails look cool so shut up
Italy!!!
awesome video
Just out of curiosity: how do they make sure it doesn't tip over? Is it just weight distribution or is there a mechanical thing holding it on?
I think I saw some in 5-Terre area of Italy to move the harvest up to the street running above, petrol driven, IIRC.
fantastic!
I was hiking in hills behind the the town of Minori on Italy's Amalfi Coast and stumbled upon one of those monorack systems. It was used to transport lemons grown on ancient terraced hillside farms still not accessible by road. Traditionally the farmers needed to move their products & supplies by donkey on the ancient footpaths. It was challenging hiking on those steep rocky footpaths – it would have been a very difficult life for the donkeys! The monorail made perfect sense there as a practical relatively low-cost solution.
That is good for maybe a year or two of casual use….
I would have an engineer look at that for long term use.
Looks like it's made from box tube and plumbers pipe !
This looks fun!
Definitely not an ad… Says he. Says me to myself… Buys monorail
Intresting
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Asia…
where is that one.
As a monorail, I finally feel validated
just look what it did to Springfield.
He looks like the human version of Mark Zuckerberg
Regenerative braking?
As a former Disneyland cast member I must say. GO to Disneyland or Disneyworld… do a count of how many guests are transported to and from their theme parks from various hotels and restaurants on any given day, via their Monorail systems… then scratch your head at the numbers… then reconsider their usefulness 🤙🏻
Use elevator. BUILD ELEVATOR IN WALL OF MOUNTIAN
Good practice!
Clearly you’ve never been to Disneyland or Disney World
AGAIN!!! "monorail" mis-applied, living with the stigma of a theme park ride,
here your limited to ONE "car" and if it is up the top and your down the bottom your going to have to wait for it to come down to take you up –
there is so much to up-scale to do before it could be any viable transport
MONO = ONE
RAIL = RAIL
Monorails are like cable cars – good at climbing hills, but not good at providing transit to the masses
I hear those things are awfully loud
Aparently it can’t have switches, I’m I right?
But main street's still all cracked and broken…..
Sorry Mom, the mob has spoken!
Wait do you have go back wards down hill?!
If you ever need an interesting story of a cog railway system, you should check out the cog railway that goes up Mt. Washington in NH USA.
Can you get mono from this monorail?
There is some in switzerland for harvesting grapes, and doing wine with it
I could really see this used in a Hitchcok-esque thriller movie where the only way in or out of a remote location is one of these monorails and there's a killer on the loose. 😳
"Silent"… 🤏🤥🙄🤣
I think this could be a good invention to make hiking more inclusive!
Want one.
2:27 view kinda insane
theres even a rolercoaster with this system build by maurer rides in germany. You can ride it in skyline park in bavaria and even on 2 cruise ships
Doppelmayr = 🐐