if you're ken peterson you can found the monorail society and build your own monorail in your backyardanaticism side of my enthusiasm. i hike to collect. i like to ride and enjoy looking at monorails, but then i also see the serious side. >> reporter: the serious side can be reaffirmed every time ken takes a spin around his yard and sees pugs whiz by and like any monorailist he can only wonder what if. monorails are usually dissected as society's answers to their long -- depicted as society's answers to their long term transportation problems. believe it or the, engineers once took a long hard look at bart as a monorail. in 1953 regional engineers submitted a plan which included the option for b.a.r.t. to be built as a monorail down to the technical drawings. 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 w

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