Definately a man with a dream.
Wonder how long it’ll be before someone adapts these maglev train plans and builds on in their backyard?
Oops! Botched that first link. Here’s the correct one.
It’s fun, isn’t it?
I saw the article on it in Wired today (there’s a javascript link from that page to a Quicktime VR 360-degree movie of the whole monorail track).
I think I’ll look out for the monorail next time I take BART From Fremont; it’s clear from this photo that part of the monorail track is visible from the BART train, and it’s fairly easy to identify the correct house to watch out for using Terraserver (although the monorail track itself isn’t visible on that Terraserver page, the pool and hot tub that it encircles are quite easily identifiable).
That is pretty damn cool! Someone should get him together with the guy with the backyard roller coaster. Something tells me they could come up with some interesting projects between them. 
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
Were you sent here by the devil?
No, good sir, I’m on the level.
MONORAIL!
You know, it was always my dream to be a monorail conductor…
MONO…D’oh!
Coming from a city that had an unwanted, unloved, impractical monorail foisted upon it in the 1980s, that Simpsons episode was so close to the truth it was incredible. Every time I go into town and see it, I keep expecting the advertising on it to peel back revealing a 1960s World Fair logo.
Even knowing where the house is, it’s too close - don’t think it’s even 50 yards away - to the BART tracks to see anything while zipping along at 70 MPH or so.
Perhaps it would be visible if he was riding it, but otherwise, it’s just a flash. You just can’t see up or down the line far enough while moving to be able to identify anything that close to the tracks.
A stealth monorail? Cooler and cooler.