Walt Disney World Monorail System On July 5, 2009, a driver was killed after the Pink and Purple monorails collided on the Epcot line at the Transportation and ticket Center. This was the only deadly incident on the Walt Disney World Monorail System in its history. Walt Disney World Monorail System The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail system in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. The Walt Disney World Resort currently operates twelve Mark VI monorail trains on three lines of service. The monorail system opened in 1971 with two routes (Magic Kingdom:
PeopleMover ride closed on August 21, 1995, but the station and track infrastructure remain. A second PeopleMover, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, opened at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, in 1975, and is still operating today. The attraction's vehicles were always moving. Passengers boarded and alighted by a large speed-matched rotating platform inside the station. The trains were not powered by motors within themselves. Rather, they were pushed by rotating tires embedded in the track once every nine feet, each of which had its own electric motor. Each car included its own sound system which broadcast