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    Disney style parking lot people mover

    All of these posts are very helpful. It seems like such a simple problem, and maybe it is. However, just last week I sat on the Disney tram at the front of a car so I could watch the rear wheels of the car in front. The rear wheels of the car do steer, as well as the fronts ones of course. The...
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    Disney style parking lot people mover

    I think the last post is in error. If you snake together a bunch of regular wagons, like a kid's wagon that steers the front and the rear is fixed, the wagons will take tighter and tighter turns around a relatively sharp corner. (you won't notice it on wide turns) A four-wheel steer wagon where...
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    Disney style parking lot people mover

    Does anybody have any info on who makes the cars that form a train for the people movers at Disney and other parks? Or just the geometry of how they steer and track? I have an application for that style of train but can't find any information or a manufacturer. I don't know the correct...

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