Before Disneyland: The Steampunk Monorail of 1910s Burbank

Long before Burbank became the media capital of the world, and decades before Walt Disney brought a sleek monorail system to Anaheim, a visionary eccentric named Joseph Wesley Fawkes had a wild dream. He wanted to connect the small, newly incorporated town of Burbank to downtown Los Angeles via a flying, propeller-driven aerial trolley.