Ten years ago, the Minnesota Zoo decommissioned its monorail after 34 years of service. The dated facility attraction was taken down after reaching the end of life with no options at the time to replace it. However, many of its components were still worth something. A St. Paul resident bought one of the monorail’s trains and converted it into a set of vacation cabins.
KMSP reported that Gabe Emerson bought a monorail train for $1,000 and then spent another $6,000 to move the cars to a friend’s property in western Wisconsin. Emerson converted the six cars into lodging cabins for weekend trips with friends while the driver’s cab is now a personal museum to the monorail’s tenure at the