however, light rail prevailed. a few years later even los angeles was considering a monorail plan, but down south automobiles and buses prevailed. by and large, the monorail in america has been part of a happy fantasy that was given a big push by the master of magic himself, walt disney. >> in 1959 he thought out the monorail. i was a pretty young boy and was just fascinated by that train. i couldn't figure out how that thing stuck on the tracks. >> reporter: about 40 years later kim fig ired it out literally in his own -- figured it out literally in his backyard, but it is irony that the monorail would be synonymous with music rather than transportation. >> when he put it in his park, it wasn't seen as so much the transportation of the future. it's become known as a ride for amusement parks. other parks put them in and we've gone from there and had a hard time convincing officials that these really do work in