Seattle Center Monorail
Elevated rail on Y-shaped concrete columns, built for a World's Fair and still running its original route.
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This guide to the Seattle Center Monorail follows two very different monorail stories in Seattle: the citywide line that taxpayers poured over a hundred million dollars into between nineteen ninety-seven and two thousand five without laying a single track, and the line beneath you, built entirely with private money from a German firm called Alweg in under a year for the nineteen sixty-two World's Fair. It traces the construction race to open before the fair itself and the wager behind Alweg's decision to foot the whole bill. Look up at the Y-shaped concrete columns as the cars roll past on rubber tires instead of steel wheels.
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