http://www.geocities.com/ferrobanana/trains.htm
http://bioweb.wku.edu/faculty/andersland/ots10/banana.html
http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/banana.html
Dave Vergun
How 'bout it Trains mag?
yes but are these railroads?
as much as any monorail
COOL !!
440
What would be even cooler is if you sped these babies up to about 75 mph while you swing below in the gondola munching on Chicita bananas.
These monorail systems originated about thirty years ago, and there are several thousand kilometers of them installed in plantations all through the humid tropics, in at least fourteen countries. Several hundred of the locomotives exist. To my knowledge they have never been written up in the technical press.
How many monorails have you ridden?Here’s my list:
1.Seattle
2.Disneyland
3.Magic Mountain
4.Calif.State Fair
5.Busch Brewery,Van Nuys, Ca.*
6.L.A. County Fair*
7.Pacific Ocean Park*
- No longer operating.
They look a little more like an assembly line in a meat packing plant than a monorail.
On average, how many miles or kilometers are there at each plantation? I would assume it’s also determined by the number of acres, but if there was just one main line and everything carried to it, or several spurs that go out into the field.
I’ve ridden those two, plus there was another “*” similar to the banana plantations at Santa’s Village (near Big Bear/Lake Arrowhead)
Dave,
Pretty neat pictures. Different but neat.
Larry