Why do so many science fiction & fantasy visions of future cities have monorails?
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- Starting as early as 1918, Popular Mechanics and similar magazines often featured monorails on their covers.
- Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic, Metropolis, showed a monorail-like train on a slender bridge at least 50 stories above the ground.
- Walt Disney added a monorail to Tomorrowland in 1959.
- A monorail was one of the stars of Seattle’s 1962 Century 21 Exposition.
- New York’s 1964-65 world’s fair had to have one too.
- Numerous futuristic movies and television shows also included monorails.
