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A monorail utilizes a single rail serving as a track for passenger or freight vehicles. In most cases it is elevated, but monorails can also run at grade, below grade, or in subway tunnels. Vehicles are either suspended from or straddle a narrow guideway. Monorail vehicles are WIDER than the guideway that supports them.

Subcategories

• Dual Mode
• Personal Rapid Transit

Resources in This Category

• Aerobus International, Inc.

  http://www.aerobus.com/
  Makes large, collective, suspended, monorail train system, tracks supported by widely spaced cable suspension. Descriptions, photos, diagrams, video, history, installations, news, contacts, contacts.

• Chiba Monorail

  http://www.chiba-monorail.co.jp/
  World's longest suspended monorail, built in 1988, 15.5km, 18 stations.

• Historic Seattle Monorail

  http://www.seattlemonorail.com/
  Seattle's original monorail, built in 1962 for the World's Fair, still operating daily on its one-mile track.

• Las Vegas Monorail

  http://www.lvmonorail.com/
  Originally opened in 1995, this system will be expanded to 6km in 2004.

• Monorail Society

  http://www.monorails.org/
  All-volunteer organization founded to foster more awareness and promote this uniquely safe method of transit: not just for theme parks and zoos. Descriptions, diagrams, technical papers, news, videos, history, comparisons, costs, links.

• Osaka Monorail

  http://www.osaka-monorail.co.jp/
  Osaka's monorail operating since 1990, 23.8km, 16 stations.

• Owen Transit Group, Inc.

  http://www.otg-inc.com/
  Engineering firm offering the HighRoad Monorail System: 1 beam, 2-way traffic.

• Shonan Monorail

  http://www.shonan-monorail.co.jp/
  Japan's first suspended monorail, built in 1970, 6.6km, 8 stations.

• Tama Monorail

  http://www.tama-monorail.co.jp/
  Operating just outside Tokyo since 1997, 16km, 19 stations.

• Walt's Toy Trains

  http://waltstoytrains.railfan.net/
  Some pictures of Disneyland monorails.

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