Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more

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Not really.  There are only so many logical shapes you can choose.  You have a body up top, and running wheels below.  How else would you cover them?

And even if it was, so what? Bob Gurr came up with a great looking train.  Why not keep it sexy? 

I'm quoting directly from the Disney web site. The exterior of the Mark VII was designed to echo the Mark III  (I originally said Mark I, my mistake).

I also find it quite telling that the outside enclosure was designed by Disney Imageneering to look cool, instead of by transportation engineers to actually be cool, like a highspeed ICE or TGV.

And do you know why the monorail runs on a single rail of concrete instead of an overhead rail like Alweg was doing at the time? Because Walt thought a concrete rail looked more futuristic and wanted it that way.