{"id":3355,"date":"2018-02-15T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2018-02-15T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:42:49","slug":"do-trains-dream-of-space-monorails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/do-trains-dream-of-space-monorails\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Trains dream of Space Monorails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we unfortunately can be almost 100% sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/index.php?\/forums\/topic\/151986-monorail-return\/\">Monorail<\/a> will <a href=\"http:\/\/bricksetforum.com\/discussion\/comment\/57906\/#Comment_57906\">never<\/a> make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurobricks.com\/forum\/index.php?\/forums\/topic\/132370-monorail-will-it-return\/\">comeback<\/a>\u00a0and even though the parts haven&#8217;t been produced in 20 years (luckily at least\u00a0one 3rd party retailer have taken up this loss by producing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.4dbrix.com\/products\/monorail\/monorail.php\">their own replacements)<\/a>\u00a0I still consider Monorails part of our trains universe. Yes, they can be a bit wonky, and yes, they are far from prototypical and don&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/misterfrost\">Frost<\/a>\u00a0(the builder) was inspired by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/147980114@N07\/34400104692\/\">prototype-theme<\/a> from exactly that year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/misterfrost\/26305829568\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3357\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/do-trains-dream-of-space-monorails\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?fit=640%2C479&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,479\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"26305829568_c1f148989c_z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?fit=474%2C355&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829568_c1f148989c_z.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oh and yes, I know this is SPACE! and not Choo-choo trains. But trains deserve our love, be it on this planet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rival_m\/albums\/72157632544832981\">or be it anywhere else. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>(That being said&#8230; When is SpaceX finally going to send their first Hyperloop train into space?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we unfortunately can be almost 100% sure that Monorail will never make a comeback\u00a0and even though the parts haven&#8217;t been produced in 20 years (luckily at least\u00a0one 3rd party retailer have taken up this loss by producing\u00a0their own replacements)\u00a0I still consider Monorails part of our trains universe. Yes, they can be a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/do-trains-dream-of-space-monorails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Trains dream of Space Monorails?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,265,264,34],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-models","tag-lego","tag-monorail","tag-space","tag-train"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26305829948_dc3967ecb4_h.jpg?fit=1600%2C1032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-S7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}