Interterminal transport

Usage examples of monorail.

The twelve-centimeter assault cannon mounted into the nose of his Jagatai OmniFighter spat out a long tongue of flame and several hundred rounds of angry metal, laying down a storm of fire that tore through yet another line of monorail tracks.

Rough wooden or tin partitions, slatted floors, and rudimentary ladderlike stairs had been attached as best they could be to the original bare steel strutting and concrete buttresses of the monorail station.

The womb breathed life into these conventions, making the pulses race along the tracks like a quadrillion cars shuttling between the trillion junctions of a ten-thousand-tiered monorail.

Since the tramcar was powered by an overhead monorail, they made rapid progress by walking down the center of the tunnel.

It was a fast-track monorail, cutting directly through the City, south to Turku, then east to Helsinki Terminal.

The darkest spots were actually tunnels with monorails and conduits running into the depths of the gigantic asteroid.

A spiderweb of roads, rail-sidings, monorails, landing platforms for freight airships.

They had come to the end of the corridor, and there were no monorails in sight.

Traffic raced around on monorails or in the air, rising and falling several hundred feet precipitously in no discernible pattern.

They felt they had been through such a lot that their generation could do things in an entirely new way: write theatre plays that would bring about socialism in Scotland at their first performance, design monorails that ran under the sea powered by plankton, make typewriters that you could wear as a sombrero.

As the monorail pulled out of the Academy station, heading into San Francisco and parts unknown, along with Elma and the tricorder, Jayme’s foot slid off the brake box.

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.

And now they were converging even more tightly, flowing over the surface of Mercury in monorails or tractors or short-hop suborbit shuttles, gathering in the great basin of Caloris Planitia: the shattered ground where, under a high and unforgiving Sun, humans had burrowed in search of water.

He would be strolling on the monorail platform in Ashland before noon on Saturday.

Between the shoulder injury from the monorail and now this, she was beginning to realize why doctors were routinely assigned to away teams.