The idea of a gyro-stabilized monorail is to use active stability systems to allow a train to balance on a single very thin rail. The benefits of this are questionable; one ends up with an ...

In 1966, the company developed an agricultural monorail system called the Monorack. The design combines a general-purpose engine with a track in which straight gears (racks) are welded to square ...

Even so, the idea of the gyro monorail never truly died, as evidenced by the recently created German MonoCab-OWL project. This targets converting single-rail sections into dual-rail, bi ...

Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail capable of reaching 300 km/h (190 mph). Unlike conventional railways, it would ...

A number of items tied to enhancing the monorail will be presented in the coming months at future LVCVA board meetings. Planned improvements include replacing the train control system, which ...