I live near enough to the zoo that I have a membership. We made a point of going and riding the monorail the last day of its operation, when the Zoo made it free to members. The kids enjoyed it, and I basked in the nostalgia since I hadn’t ridden in it since I was a little girl many moons ago (back when they still…

The zoo is owned by the state and operated by a charitable organization. So yeah, they have to auction stuff off. They can’t just throw it on Craigslist. The monorail itself originally was not, though; it was independently owned and operated by a private, for-profit entity since the state legislator thought it was a…

If it is a government funded zoo, they are likely required to auction off everything. I worked at a public university, and we had to surplus and auction off everything down to old printers and keyboards. We had a warehouse dedicated to the storage and auction. 

So we’re all going to pass over his mounted spud-gun howitzer?

you mean a TRAIN?  That would be a TRAIN.  Call it a TRAIN (geez!)

At first, he wanted to buy a plane fuselage, but could only find them in airplane junkyards in the southwest desert.

I rode that monorail! What a bummer that it’s been decommissioned, and what a bummer that it isn’t in operation. :-(

Carrier pigeons are the best way to send messages.

yeah, but that’s only four-fifths the coolness of my pentarail.

“They apparently,” Emerson quipped over email, “hadn’t heard of Craigslist.”

Everything coming from Disney has a premium price.

jesus, once you move past the Simpsons references, you realize the monorail well is deep:

bargain compared to the WDW monorails (mark VI) that were listed a few years back (asking $260k for just ONE car):

Oh yeah? Well it still would only be 1/2 as cool as my quadrail!

That’s not a monorail, in fact there are no rails in miles. They are monorail CARS.

meh...should have saved up his money and gotten a duorail...they are twice as cool.

definitely not why they don’t make them. The Evo cost more than they sold it for, and was subsidized by sales of the base Lancer. A more true statement would be “if people wanted to buy the crappy Lancer sedan which had not been redesigned in 10 years, Mitsubishi would have the money to design a replacement and they…

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