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| Title | Monorail at station, Seattle World's Fair, 1962 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1962 |
| Caption | The Century 21 monorail was designed to carry people between downtown Seattle and the World's Fair site. ALWEG Rapid Transit Systems, a West German firm, began contruction in April 1961, and the monorail opened to the public less than a year later. The trains carried over eight million people during the six months of the fair.
This image shows one of the streamlined monorail trains at the Westlake Station in downtown Seattle. The system is still in use today, carrying some 2.5 million passengers yearly between Westlake Center and Seattle Center. |
| Notes | Caption information source: Seattle Monorail www.seattlemonorail.com)." target="_top">www.seattlemonorail.com). |
| Subjects | Monorail railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Railroad stations--Washington (State)--Seattle; Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.); Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1994.40.6 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Museum of History & Industry Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from contact print as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
