The Monorail "MAPO" test
Have you ever ridden the express monorail to MK when they had to stop between Contemporary and the park, and try a few maneuvers? When they bring a new train online, they are required to test the automated 'kill engine if get too close to another monorail' system.
While I've long known about the test and its requirement, I only recently learned the name: the MAPO test. My guess is this would refer to the 'manufacture and production' facility of WDI also called MAPO (the name also seems to refer to Mary Poppins the movie, whose profits enabled this facility to be built). If true, do the modern day CMs call it the MAPO test because the WDI guys insist this test be done?
While I've long known about the test and its requirement, I only recently learned the name: the MAPO test. My guess is this would refer to the 'manufacture and production' facility of WDI also called MAPO (the name also seems to refer to Mary Poppins the movie, whose profits enabled this facility to be built). If true, do the modern day CMs call it the MAPO test because the WDI guys insist this test be done?
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I know I'm late on this. But yes Cast Members refer it to as MAPO or Mary Poppins. The reason (as explained on the Train Tour) for the name is that Mary Poppins has a solution for everything.
My wife is an engineer on the WDW Magic Kingdom Train and every time the train leaves the roundhouse (storage/repair area) they test MAPO by allowing the tank to "blow out" its stack and "blow down" into a creek it crosses over.
On the train tour they explain the different MAPO functions/tests and actually have you on the train when the bring a train out of the roundhouse for the first time that day and you get to see the steam release.
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