Walt Disney World Monorail

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The Walt disney World Monorail system is one of the initial transit systems in all of Walt Disney World. The Monorail line opened up in 1971, and was expaned in 1982 to include commuters from the Ticket and Transit center to Epcot park. The monorail goes through Epcot, with a great veiw of the geodesic dome, and all of the other attractions at Epcot, including scenery at Epcot. There are 2 monorail lines, one that goes through Epcot as I just stated, and one that goes to Magic Kingdom, and all of the resorts in that certain area including  the Polynesian Village, Grand Floridian, and literally goes through the Contemporarty resort. Each hotel has its own

themed station for the monorail, that goes 

along with its hotel. The monorail system 

has 12 cars, a Red, Coral, Orange, Gold, Yellow,

Lime, Green, Blue, Silver, Black, Teal, and Peach 

car. This system is very crucial to Disney World, 

Because over 50 Million passengars ride this

monorail system each year. This system is

also very reliable, because only one fatal 

accident happened in 2009, where a switch in

the Epcot line had a malfunction, and two cars

collided, killing one pilot. The cars used, were the

Purple, and Pink cars. Disney used good parts

from these cars to make the peach car. Don't be scared, because another crash happening is extremely rare. Disney runs tests each day, and getting the cars extremely close to each other, to test the autobrakes. These monorails can also be unreliable, because they stop alot. They do have quite a few problems, and you might experience one of these. Here is a picture of a monorail being towed due to a breakdown.