Keeping a sealed pneumatic tube along the entire track? Sounds like a maintenance nightmare, to be honest. How do you switch rails? How do you get a stranded propulsion module off the track (can't just get a diesel locomotive to drag the thing, can you now)? What are the backup breaking systems for failures on those 10% grades?

I suppose this might at the very best be a niche thing, more so than the current Transrapid/Maglev system. Airport shuttles, maybe.

It's a maglev monorail? I thought this was going to use pneumatic tubes and stuff. I'm all for high speed rail, but I'm much more for Jetsons-style wooshy tube transportation.

Heh, watch the pneumatic tube.

It's crazy -- the roof is pushed forward and it disconnects the tube from the kiosk. Then the tube slides down and gets deflected off of the brick column that is now underneath it, then it stands up on end and rotates over barely faster than the ceiling is falling, until it is lying flat on the ground beneath curb level. If the ceiling didn't break apart, I'd expect that fragile tube to be in one piece.