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23 Comments

  1. Amy

    Some of the WDW Monorails were sent to Las Vegas for their monorail system – perhaps this is one of them?

    1. Traci

      Nope. No Disney monorails here in Vegas

      1. SirStephenH

        They originally used ones from Disney World but later switched.

    2. Craig C Chen

      Most likely came from Disneyland. I haven’t seen it operating the 2 times I been there couple of years apart.

  2. Bryan Sharp

    Vegas had a monorail on the strip for a while. It was cool to ride it there after having ridden it many times in Orlando.

  3. Bryan Sharp

    There was a monorail on the Vegas strip for a while. It was cool to ride it there after having ridden it so many times in Orlando.

    1. Traci

      I live in Vegas. The monorails here have nothing to do with Disney. A company called bombardier built them.

      1. Stephen

        When the monorail first started between MGM and Bally’s, they used two old Disney World monorails. When the line was extended up to Sahara, they purchased ones from Bombardier.

  4. Josh

    It’s one of the ones that were sold to Las Vegas. I have pictures of it running. It had Bally’s casino advertising on the bottom section (now missing from train)

  5. Josh

    This was formerly monorail lime. Monorail coral was also sold to Las Vegas for their monorail. Coral was painted green and had mgm grand painting on it. This one had Bally’s.

  6. Brandon

    The desert is a perfect place to store this thing. I’m sure whomever owns the monorail has rights to store it there either through the county or through ownership. The military has stored aircraft in the desert for almost a century. The dry air preserves them for an extremely long time.

  7. James

    I would like to have a couple of them and they don’t have to go far I’m practically there Neighbour like to find out I could get my hands on a couple

  8. Ronald d Ford

    What Happened to the old Las Vegas Monorail?
    Delivered in 1977, the last two Mark IV monorails built for Walt Disney World had an amazing career.

    As monorails Coral and Lime, these two six-car monorail trains handled millions of riders at Walt Disney World. Then in 1995, they became the first monorails for the Las Vegas system. Handling 5 million passengers annually until retirement in early 2003, they led the way to the development of a new mass transit system for the city of Las Vegas.

  9. Put it up for sale so it can find a new home

  10. Mel

    Yeah I’d like to buy one of these if they are abandoned!

  11. CarolineRN

    FINALLY…. a cool and positive article.
    I agree with Mel it certainly is abandoned!
    If Vegas wanted to just store it for a long time it would or should have been put under lock and key in a covered building.
    Anyway, cool

  12. Bonnie

    Found an article about 2 Disney/Vegas monorails for sale on EBay that could be used for movie props. According to the article one sold and was distorted in a movie. This must be the 2nd one.

  13. LouiB

    So the article calls it abandoned but it could have been on private property and the person who went in and took pictures was trespassing I would think. Something in this condition would not just be abandoned in the desert. Thought it was interesting that no location for this was listed in the article other then found in the desert, it is a big desert.

    1. KennyVee

      In the twitter thread it is mentioned that this sits on property owned by a business, and that the OP requested permission from the business before entering the property.

  14. Craig

    I agree with others that this was probably one of the trains Disney sold to Las Vegas for the initial monorail line. WDW vs. Disneyland trains can be identified first by their size (WDW are larger), and secondly, Disneyland monorails have doors on only one side. WDW has doors on two sides. I think the picture of the cab is looking in one door and you can see the other door, so this was a WDW train.

  15. ABR

    Maybe Disney will abandon the Star Wars sequel trilogy in the desert too. Fingers crossed.

  16. John Jackson

    This was purchased and brought to the Nevada Desert by a guy who wanted to bring it to Burning Man. I spoke to him when he had it out there one year.

    1. Chuck

      Do you have a contact?

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