Originally Posted By donnyaz Every time I ride the Disneyland railroad I have wondered how the pre recorded announcements get to the individual train cars,I have a theory that they are transmitted on a radio frequency. Anyone have any facts on this ?
Originally Posted By retlawfan I believe they are played from an on board system, that is triggered to start manually as the trains leave each station. But it also may be triggered along the tracks by some automatic system, but still from an on board system. OR, I could be wrong.
Originally Posted By donnyaz I know the train trigger sensors but the I dont think the indavidual trains use some kind of wireless speakers.You can kinda hear frequency distortion every once in a while.
Originally Posted By JCFreak7 The front car of each train has small circle reflectors but you cannot see them because they are not on the side that faces in towards the park. It reflects to a small senor that is located at each point in the attraction where a spiel starts.
Originally Posted By donnyaz JCFreak7 that makes sence but it seems to me there is a wireless speaker system that sends the audio to each car , otherwise there would need to be a speaker cable connected from car to car there is not even power cables going from car to car but a battery on each car.
Originally Posted By JCFreak7 Each locomotive has a huge battery on the rear end of the Tender and is connected through cables to each car for power. At the bottom of each Rolling Stock, on the first car only, there is an alternator that will power up the battery for more juice while the train is moving. But yes, there are cables that are attached throughout the whole rolling stock.
Originally Posted By dresswhites i have a question when the park closes, and your on the last train of the evening, can you get off at any of the stations, or do you have to remain on the train till main street?
Originally Posted By monorailblue The final train departs Main Street at park closing, makes one final round (boarding only) at each station, then drops everyone at Main Street, goes almost to Tomorrowland and is backed into the Roundhouse for the night. A nice way to end the night. It also means that you can get in line at Toontown up to at least 5 minutes after closing and Tomorrowland at least 10 minutes after--sometimes a tick longer.
Originally Posted By JCFreak7 Monorailblue...not always 5 min @ toontown or 10 min at TL, sometimes on our "Sweeper" trips, we like to see how fast of a trip we can do (depending on the Engineer and Fireman). The fastest trip I've gone on is 12 minutes...normally takes 20 minutes round trip... That means 1 min per station and then 2 min travel time between stations... It's quite a fun way to end the night.
Originally Posted By monorailblue Well, I know a driver who took Monorail Red through the park at P4 before speed control was installed in 1999/2000. But that doesn't mean it's good. Remember that Courtesy is more important than Efficiency. On paper. (Only.)
