A monorail enthusiast builds a monorail in his backyard.
"I've wanted my own rideable monorail for a long time and these little sketches are proof. In fact, the dream goes way back before I got involved in monorail promotion for transit. I drew these while I was a high school junior way back in February of 1969. My Dad wouldn't give me a permit to build it though, so the dream would have to wait...a long time it turns out... Decades passed by and the sketching continued. I don't give up my dreams very easily. It wasn't until we Pedersens had a house suitable for a monorail that things really got going."
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