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Posted by Caz on Fri Mar 30 19:56:52 2012 That's right! Did you guys ever know that the Bronx Zoo monorail cars were built by Rohr in 1977?I know its a novelty ride and monorails are usually frowned upon in this site, but I think this system is very interesting, next to the Seattle Monorail and the Disneyland and World systems. The Bronx Zoo system, known as the Wild Asia Monorail (formerly known Bengali Monorail), has six 9-car trains and one gas powered work car. The trains travel in a loop configuration on elevated, 1.6-mile steel beam guideway through the Wild Asia section of the zoo. The line has wayside signals,very similar to NYCT, in fact, the person who designed the signal system worked for the NYCTA signal dept. Each signal has the usual three aspects, green, yellow and red, that control a block. If a train runs a red signal, it automatically knocks of power to the entire block, stopping the train in emergency. Line voltage for the monorail is 480VAC feed through bus bars along the guideway. Originally the AC power was transformed to DC to feed the SCR control system and the traction motors. Around 2007, the cars received a major overhaul, which replaced the DC equipment to a variable-frequency AC drives. It is truly a nice underrated system in NYC. |