High Tech Monorails is a documentary I edited for my friend Rob Kelly.  It’s airing on Travel Channel and Travel HD several times this month starting Sunday at 7pm PST.  Set your TiVo and be sure watch it!

The show covers several of the world’s best monorails including the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal Germany, which was built over 100 years ago.  It also takes you to China aboard the 1.2 billion dollar mag lev that reaches 270 mph, and to Las Vegas where a monorail was built to connect the back side of the strip’s casinos.  And the film talks about how Los Angeles was offered a free monorail in the 60′s but turned it down due to pressure from the oil companies.  And it asks the question “why aren’t we using these technologies more today.”  All egos aside, it’s a delightful way to spend an hour.  I hope everyone gets a chance to check it out.

Hit the link to see a clip from the show…

Ok!  So I’m including this next section to tease Rob a little, plus having edited the show, this is one of the oddest things I’ve seen all week…

I figured there was probably a clip of the show on youtube because there’s a clip of everything on youtube.  I searched youtube for High Tech Monorails and I found this golden little gem of a clip:

I can’t wrap my head around this but it’s a show about japanese people watching High Tech Monorails. Hmmm.

ANYWAYS!  For a REAL clip you can go to hightechmonorails.com

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