Even though we unfortunately can be almost 100% sure that Monorail will never make a comeback and even though the parts haven’t been produced in 20 years (luckily at least one 3rd party retailer have taken up this loss by producing their own replacements) I still consider Monorails part of our trains universe. Yes, they can be a bit wonky, and yes, they are far from prototypical and don’t look like anything you would see in the real life, but they just look so cool! Most of the monorails that are build by AFOLs nowadays are trying to look contemporary, but this week I spotted one that looks like it just escaped from 1989. Which is btw not that strange, since Frost (the builder) was inspired by a prototype-theme from exactly that year.
Oh and yes, I know this is SPACE! and not Choo-choo trains. But trains deserve our love, be it on this planet, or be it anywhere else.
(That being said… When is SpaceX finally going to send their first Hyperloop train into space?)
And yet one of only 4 minis in their 60th anniversary set is of a monorail.