The first monorail trains to go into regular daily service in the U.S. are now operating in California's Disneyland. The mile-long, near-full-scale system, built on the Alweg principle, is a lot more, however, than a mere amusement park penny-catcher; it's expected also to provide a valid test of Alweg's possibilities as a mass-transport reliever of auto-crowded cities.
The first monorail trains to operate a on a daily basis in the United States are now in service on the Disneyland-Alweg monorail system at Anaheim. Cal.
Two three-car articulated trains, each with capacity of 82 passengers, are expected to carry more than 1.000,000 Disneyland visitors this summer on a line about one mile long. More importantly. they may demonstrate the practicability of this type of equipment as possible solution to mass transportation problems in American cities.
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