Monorail transport

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Well, sir, there's nothin' on Cybertron like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail!

The monorail transport is a light-to-medium rail system that transports materials and people across Cybertron (or just its capital city). At least by the era of the Beast Wars, the cargo vessels were reinforced with titanium.

Fiction

Beast Machines cartoon

Fleeing from the Tank Drones in Cybertropolis, Optimus Primal was led by the Oracle to a moving cargo train. He found it occupied by none other than Rattrap, and after some talk about the situation, Optimus Primal decided their best course of action was to keep running. Rattrap didn't want to leave the safety of the titanium-reinforced vessel, so Optimus Primal simply grabbed him and escaped the train moments before the Tank Drones blew it up. The Reformatting

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

It glides as softly as a cloud.

Shockwave's Tower possessed a private station for Shockwave and his troops to use. Brothers' Burden

Upon freeing the Ark crew from imprisonment in Iacon, the rebellion sent Optimus Prime through the sewers and took the rest of them to a safer place with the monorail transport system. Having been put in prison by some of those very same rebels in the first place, the Autobots were distrustful of their motives. This was only made worse when the train was made to stop somewhere else in Iacon and another rebel asked for Prowl only to come with him, stating the rest would have to stay in the train until they'd reach the rebels' bunker. Ironhide called slag on that arrangement and was allowed to leave the train with Prowl. Passive Aggression

2005 IDW continuity

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Most Cybertronian cities, including Rodion, included the "transit tracks," a commuter rail network designed for Cybertronians without a vehicle-based alternate mode. During the Clampdown, 'bots with vehicle modes could be fined for illegally using the system. Stet

In the years following the Great War, the refurbished city of Iacon eventually came to incorporate a similar rail system. Road's End

Notes

• So then, "mono" means "one" and "rail" means "rail".
• And that concludes our intensive notes section.