The WGASA Bush Line is the railway that takes visitors around the perimeter of the San Diego Wild Animal Park. The origin of its name has been circulating as a joke and a legend ever since 1972 when the park opened. The legend is backed up by employees of the park from both the past and the present.
There are no claims that Wgasa is a word in a foreign language and so far there is no proof of that. Everyone gives the same account as to how the name Wgasa came to be. It started out as a joke. After a long and tiring meeting where the chief designer, Chuck Faust, zoo director, Chuck Bieler, and the usual group were sitting around trying to figure out what to call the monorail.
Everyone was sick of thinking and not coming up with anything. So, Chuck Faust wrote down wgasa and everyone laughed, because they knew what it stood for. They ended up not thinking of anything better and it sounded kind of African, so they stuck with it.