05-02-2018, 04:33 PM
(05-02-2018, 02:26 PM)Canard Wrote: I was thinking more of Siemens' SIPEM (H-Bahn) - I rode two of these systems in Germany last year (photo thread, and they're fantastic. You can't get a guideway much slimmer than this...
But yeah, people hate everything, so I never considered anything other than LRT to be the choice (as it was with Phase 1).
"AM Wood" made me LOL. I'll have to remember that one for future.
Those are awesomely slim guideways. One thing I notice about that design is that the switch doesn’t take up much space either — very different from the massive switch installations you see on something like the Las Vegas monorail, with two whole segments of track that slide in and out of position. I wonder if those Siemens switches can be forced or if they need to be lined before being entered trailing-point?