Bombardier Transportation produced a wide variety of rail transportation vehicles, including high speed trains, regional, suburban and metro trains, trams, and locomotives as well as passenger carriages.
Bombardier's standard metro vehicles are the mid-sized fully automated and driverless INNOVIA Metro with the option for linear induction motor propulsion or a conventional rotary motor, and the high-capacity customizable MOVIA Metro, which is powered by conventional motors and can also be fully automated. In addition, Bombardier has produced many custom metro models not based on either model.
Bombardier Transportation's Transportation Group Incorporated acquired Universal Mobility Incorporated's UM III technologies in 1989.[3] These systems are either still in use or have been retired. Several monorails were manufactured before Universal Mobility was established - the first was manufactured by a local Montreal company, the following two manufactured by UMI predecessor Constam Corporation.
Monorail | Location | Opened | Closed | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Minirail | La Ronde | 1967
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Operating | Only one segment of the system continues to operate |
Monorail | Location | Opened | Closed | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Cal Expo | Sacramento, CA | 1968
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Operating | ||
Monorail | Hersheypark | 1969
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Operating | Magic Mountain Metro cars remain in storage |
Monorail | Location | Opened | Closed | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Metro | Six Flags Magic Mountain | 1971
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2001
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Cars sold to Hersheypark and system dismantled in 2011 | |
Carowinds Monorail | Carowinds | 1973
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1994
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First UM Type II Tourister model | |
Animal Habitat Monorail | Kings Island | 1974
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1993
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Monorail | King's Dominion | 1975
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circa 1990s | Dismantled in the 1990s when with Safari Village attraction was closed. | |
Northern Trail monorail | Minnesota Zoo | 1979
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2013
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Removed after it was determined to be too high of a cost to improve. | |
Monorail | 1984 Louisiana World Exposition | 1984
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1984
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Relocated to Zoo Miami after expo ended | |
Monorail | Zoo Miami | 1984
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Operating | Relocated from 1984 Louisiana World Exposition |
Monorail | Location | Opened | Closed | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Monorail | Walt Disney World Resort | 1989
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Operating | Mark VI monorail still in operation today | |
Monorail | Tampa International Airport | 1991
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2020
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Jacksonville Skyway | Jacksonville, FL | 1997
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Operating |
Bombardier also supplies propulsion units, train-control systems, bogies, and other parts, and maintains train fleets.