It was several miles from the Academy to the monorail station, and the moving belt dipped and turned through the rugged country that surrounded Space Academy.
Just before he stepped on the slidewalk that would take him to the monorail station, he saw the three members of the Polaris unit leaving Kit Barnard's installation.
Then the monorail car sped to the chosen position, and the shovel fell rapidly into the ore.
Mr. Behr was encouraged to construct a monorailin Kerry, between Listowel, a country town famous for its butter, and Ballybunion, a seaside resort of increasing popularity.
One of these, the monorail or single-rail system, will be employed on a railroad projected between Manchester and Liverpool.
The South-Eastern plans a monorail between Cannon Street and Charing Cross to avoid the delay that at present occurs in passing from one station to the other.
Mr. Behr was not satisfied with his first success, however, and determined to develop the monorail in the direction of fast travelling, which he thought would be most easily attained on a trestle-track.
A monorail car is divided lengthwise by a gap that allows it to hang half on either side of the trestles and clear them as it moves.
Very little is said of the monorail (in fact, Brennan's name is not mentioned), which is less explicable.
I've gotta follow through for Murlin on his monorail deal first.
I had dinner with Murlin last night and weaseled him out of four percent of Citizen stock in exchange for a fancy tip on the new monorail project out Nevada way.
Hunter saw the panoramic view of Sector West for only a split-second before the monorail car screamed down through the layer of gray haze.
The monorail car was crowded, primarily with afternoon-shift workers on their way to the industrial area.
Acutely mindful that he had left the service and would earn no more juicy credit bonuses, he took the monorail instead.
Special autojets, with destinations pre-set for the casino flat, were available in every monorail terminal.
But though a jet was faster than themonorail it was also more expensive.
The monorail shot up toward the Palms-Pine pass of the San Jacinto Mountains.
On the floor, a fat old man sat hunched over the remote control console of a toy monorail system.
Every year, for the last ten years, he had met the trains at the monorail station.
As the slidewalk whisked them silently past the few remaining buildings and credit exchanges that nestled around the monorail station, Tom gave thought to his new life.
The voice boomed over the loud-speaker system; and as the long, gleaming line of monorail cars eased to a stop with a soft hissing of brakes, the three cadets of the Polaris unit moved eagerly in that direction.
I saw what happened at the monorail station," drawled the third member of Section 42-D, leaning against the bannister of the moving belt.
A harsh, bull-throated roar thundered over the platform of the monorail station at Space Academy and suddenly the lively chatter and laughter of more than a hundred boys was stilled.
The three cadets stepped out of the monorail and walked across the platform to a waiting air car--jet-powered, shaped like a teardrop and with a clear crystal top.
He tossed and turned and worried and finally--comfortable as the monorailcar was--he fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.
Remember that night on the monorail going into Atom City?
Carrying Manning's luggage as well as their own, they finally stepped on the slidewalk and began the smooth easy ride from the monorailstation to the Academy.
Tumbling out of the gleaming monorail cars, they froze to quick attention, their eyes turned to the main exit ramp.
Illustration: An Exhilarating Glide Accompanied by a Buoyant Sense of Freedom Only Obtained in the Monorail Type] The top is a board 6 ft.
How to Make a Monorail Sled A monorail sled, having a simple tandem arrangement of the runners, is very easily constructed as follows: The runners are cut from 1-in.
With the slope of the track, the thrust of the propellers and the machine starting directly into the wind, we did not anticipate any trouble in getting up flying speed on the 60-foot monorail track.
Saturday afternoon the machine was again ready for trial, but the wind was so light a start could not have been made from level ground with the run of only sixty feet permitted by our monorail track.
A metallic voice rasped over the loud-speakers and echoed through the lofty marble and aluminum concourse of the New Chicago Monorail Terminal.
The two men turned quickly and disappeared through the door leading to the next monorail car.
Wearily, they drifted with the crowd and stepped on the slidestairs leading down to the monorail platform.
It whisked them quickly past the few buildings nestled around the monorail station and rounded a curve.
Even as Tom spoke, the speed of the monorail slackened as it eased past a few gleaming structures of aluminum and concrete.
We just had a little run-in with them on the monorail returning from leave, that's all," said Tom.
Suspended from a single gleaming rail that stretched across the western plains like an endless silver ribbon, the monorail express hurtled through the early dawn speeding its passengers to their destination.
Standing up, he stretched and touched the top of the monorail car.
Suddenly the monorail roared out of the tunnel and into brilliant early-morning sun again.
Five minutes later, as the sleek monorail whistled into the tunnel beneath the mountain range, the boys of the Polaris unit returned to their seats.
Almost immediately, the monorail train eased forward, suspended on the overhead rail.
The three cadets turned and raced across the quadrangle for the nearest slidewalk that would take them to the Academy monorail station and the beginning of their adventure in the jungles of Venus.
A metallic voice boomed over the station loud-speaker, as last-minute passengers boarded the long line of gleaming white monorail cars, hanging from a single overhead steel rail.
Coming from a large city where he had to travel two hours by monorail to get to open green country, the curly-haired cadet found this passage through the wildest jungle in the solar system new and fascinating.
I got the monorail tickets to Atom City last week, and reserved seats on the Venus Lark two weeks ago!
It is claimed that in themonorail system so equipped with the gyroscope, a speed of more than a hundred miles an hour is possible with perfect safety.
There is also another type of monorail of overhead construction, the wheels running on the rail from which the car hangs.
On this system are nine monorail cars, each car having two 2-ton hoists, by means of which great boxes and trays of material can be picked up and carried overhead from point to point in the shop.
Overhead are two 5-ton electric cranes, so arranged that they can unload material from railway cars at one end of the crane-way and deposit it in a position to be picked up by the monorail cars, or placed in bins or barrels for storage.
But he stopped harping on the point when they reached the monorail station.
On his way home in the monorail Connor tried to reach his office and had the frightening experience of having his telepathic call refused by Central.
On the monorail he noticed that, though still more relaxed than their unwelcome fellows, they no longer exuded that grating absolute sense of security.
The possible fate of these arrested men haunted him all the way home as did the hostile stares of the people in the monorail car.
Where the light railways stop the monorail systems begin, food, cartridges, and mail being sent right up into the forward trenches in small cars or baskets suspended from a single overhead rail and pushed by hand.
When I woke, the moon was over the Seven Seas Lagoon and the monorail was silent.
At least there was no mandatory Whuffie check on the monorail platform, but the other people on the car were none too friendly to me, and no one offered me an inch more personal space than was necessary.
I'll just grab a shower at the Contemporary in the morning and catch the monorail back in time to change.
I pulled on last night's clothes and walked out to the Monorail station in the main lobby.
Allan watched themonorail vanish beyond the huge north tower of the cable bridge, sink through the trees, and finally fade into the gathering gloom.
Already a score of thriving colonies have scattered from the capital, all yet bound to it with monorail cables, with electric wires and with the ether-borne magic of the wireless.
Overhead were skeleton structures, like landing stages; and across the further distance was the fleeting, transitory wraith of a monorail air-road.
A distance away, a hundred feet above the ground level, the shadowy form of what seemed a monorail structure showed for a moment.
In the dim distance the roar of a monorail car rose faintly at first, then grew louder and louder, only to fade away once more into the whispering silence.
One of our monorail cars," Pegrani told them: "a complete system interconnects all cities and divisions.
Or, if worse came to worst-- The sudden rush of a monorail car high overhead interrupted his thoughts.
In the monorail car Blaine held the girl close, and they trod softly as they dodged the guard at the porthole and stepped into the passenger compartment.
The monorail crew stood by, and he noted with grim satisfaction that several of them were as badly damaged as he could wish.
He was pointing into the distance and expounding on the merits of the monorail system.
Steve has been placed in charge of procurement for the construction of the hangar and getting the spur line in from the monorail station," replied Connel.
I followed you from the monorail station," replied the boy.
The single track monorail that Barret had run into the area was blocked by an explosion in the mouth of the tunnel.
The tunnel promised by Dave Barret had been finished in less than five days, with the rail for the monorail spur installed overhead as each yard of the shaft was completed.
Safe for the time being, at least until the Solar Guard traced him to Earth, Tom moved openly through the streets of Atom City and went directly to the monorail station where he purchased a ticket for Space Academy.
In 1909 an electric aerial monorail up the Wetterhorn in the Alps was put into operation.
Two men pushing against the opposite sides of a monorailcar could keep it balanced on the central rail though its weight vastly exceeded anything they could lift.
For years, Mr. Brennan tells me, the problem haunted him, of how to make a monorail car balance itself.
In Germany a suspension monorail system is in operation, the cars being suspended from an overhead track.
But until the invention of the gyrocar (which is referred to at length in the following chapter) the methods of balancing the car on a single rail presented difficulties which quite offset the advantages of the monorail system.
In any monorail system the first of these difficulties, the deviation of the rail from the parallel, is, of course, eliminated; and it is found that on a single rail the elevations and depressions are not serious obstacles.
