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Sub-Categories in Monorails

Dual Mode (5)

Personal Rapid Transit (6)

Web Sites in Category Monorails

Monorail Society - 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.

Aerobus International, Inc. - Makes large, collective, suspended, monorail train system, tracks supported by widely spaced cable suspension. Descriptions, photos, diagrams, video, history, installations, news, contacts, contacts.

Aerorail - A suspended monorail based on the Safege design.

Chiba Monorail - World's longest suspended monorail, built in 1988, 15.5km, 18 stations.

Disneyland-Alweg Monorail - A tribute to America's first ALWEG monorail, built in 1959, 3.7km, 2 stations.

Futrex, Inc. - Charleston, SC. System 21 "monobeam".

Historic Seattle Monorail - Seattle's original monorail, built in 1962 for the World's Fair, still operating daily on its one-mile track.

Hull Monorail

Kuala Lumpur Monorail - Operating since 2003, 8.6km, 11 stations.

Las Vegas Monorail - Originally opened in 1995, this system will be expanded to 6km in 2004.

Moscow Monorail - Opening in 2003 with 5km and 5 stations.

New Century Transportation, Inc. - Firm forming to propose, develop large, collective, top mount, high-speed, intercity, monorail, magnetically levitated, trains. Descriptions, images.

Osaka Monorail - Osaka's monorail operating since 1990, 23.8km, 16 stations.

Owen Transit Group, Inc. - Engineering firm offering the HighRoad Monorail System: 1 beam, 2-way traffic.

Severn-Lamb USA, Inc. - Makes S.L. Series Monorail: large, collective, top mount, straddle-beam vehicles. Attractive look. Description, photographs, contact.

Shonan Monorail - Japan's first suspended monorail, built in 1970, 6.6km, 8 stations.

STC: Sky Train Corp. - Proposed large, collective, suspended monorail from Florida. Descriptions, diagrams, book, news, consulting, TRDA grant.

SwedeTrack System AB - Makes FlyWay automated beamcarried traffic, of Sweden. Medium and large, collective, suspended vehicles, lower to the ground to avoid any need to build stations. Many descriptions, images, links. English, Svenska.

Tama Monorail - Operating just outside Tokyo since 1997, 16km, 19 stations.

The ALWEG Archives - History of the ALWEG monorail system.

The Whoosh: Innovative Public Transport - Proposed large, collective, suspended, air pressure driven monorail, from England. Descriptions, static and animated diagrams, precedents, social aspects/impact.

Tokyo Monorail - Japan's first urban monorail, operating since 1964, 16.9km, 10 stations.

Walt's Toy Trains - Some pictures of Disneyland monorails.

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Science > Physics > Electromagnetism > Magnetic Levitation > Transportation
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