Monorailll. Monorailllllll. Monoraillllllllllll!

It occurred to me recently that I’d stashed away plenty of pictures of the Seattle monorail for the carspotting series (and already included it once), so why not blow ‘em all out in one post? This first one doesn’t much look like the monorail that Seattle ended up with, but that’s because it’s a 1958 rendering of an alternative proposal, as seen on the Seattle Municipal Archives Flickr page.

Also from the Seattle Municipal Archives, the monorail under construction in 1961…

…and the completed monorail in 1962.

Then over on the Washington State Archives, another 1962 photo, above, and one from 1970 below. What do you see here?

Also, if you’re curious about the headline: