The Airtrans at DFW Airport is split in to three separate systems, the regular Airport Train, an employee train, and the American Airlines TrAAin. All three utilize the same guideway, and the same type of vehicles; the only major difference being the stations used. Because the system is the same, we have lumped all three in to one section below, which includes pictures from all three systems. The audio section is soley from the airport train system.
The full-sized picture pages also contain a brief description of the corresponding picture.
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- Doors Closing: The message is rather authoritative. Do as it says - it's automated!
- Departing the station: Words can not describe the sounds the Airtrans makes when the motors kick in to motion.
- Go, no stop, go: Riding on the Airtrans is never smooth, and never the same twice, but this is what makes it so entertaining. In order to maintain spacing between all the trains, it is constantly adjusting speeds which produces all sorts of sounds. Another example of this is heard here.
- Arriving at Terminal A, Station 3: Due to the unusual horseshoe shape of the terminals at DFW Airport, station 3 always comes before station 1 (station 2 in Terminal A is no longer used).
- Let 'er rip!: Every once in a while, a long stretch of track and no other trains in the area allows the Airtrans to open the throttle wide and really sail along (not really as top speed is only 17mph)
- Arriving at Terminal A, Station 1
- Arriving at Terminal B, Station 3: You can really hear the motors working as the train approaches the station.
- Train in station!: This rather obnoxious sound notifies passengers in the station that the train is approaching, as well as when a train is currently in the station. You can hear the 'Doors Closing' warning in the background. At over 25 years old, the system sometimes shows its age, as it does at the very end of the sound clip when the alarm just kind of just fizzles out.
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