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- From: rl@ferris.cray.com (Randy Lambertus)
- Subject: New York World's Fair Monorail
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.042337.3361@walter.cray.com>
- Lines: 54
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <16B5CF000.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org> <1993Jan21.030226.718@walter.cray.com> <16B5DB012.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:23:36 CST
-
- In article <16B5DB012.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org> M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org writes:
- >>
- >fire. Did you know that prior to the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge Route
- >some through passenger train service between Boston and (at least) Harrisburg
- >and Baltimore was operated over the Poughkeepsie Bridge?
- >
- >Len Bachelder Archives Committee, Boston and Maine RR Historical Society
-
-
- The first time I heard about traffic to NE through Poughkeepsie was last
- year in this newsgroup during the thread about the Hell Gate Bridge. It
- seems I learn something new all the time from the vast knowledge of the
- group.
-
- Speaking of which, I have been participating in a discussion in the
- alt.tv.simpsons group about the Marge vs. the Monorail episode. During
- the show as the monorail accelerates to warp speed, a Springfield Monorail
- sticker is torn off revealing the words New York World's Fair. To
- illustrate what the original monorail looked like I scanned two pictures
- I have in my NYWF collection into B&W Gifs and put them on wuarchive in
- the incoming directory under /graphics/trains (well they are sort of).
- The responses back indicate the show featured a monorail more like the
- Walt Disney type, ie staddling a beam rather than hanging from a rail.
-
- Anyway the pictures are there for anyone intered, mono.1.GIF and
- mono.2.GIF.
-
- The question I have is who built the thing in the first place? I know
- AMF sponsored it, but did they also construct it? I can't believe a
- sporting equipment company would go to all that trouble for a one off
- system. Especially since no more were ever built to my knowledge. The
- second question is where did it go after the Fair? My feeling is that
- it was engineered and constucted in Europe, being more suited to the
- Wuppertal type of hanging monrail. Since this is almost 29 years after
- the opening of the Fair, I don't expect many to know the exact details
- much less have seen it or actually rode it (I did though!). But as
- usual I do expect to be surprised by the wealth of knowledge squirrelled
- away by the groups members.
-
- Just something to occupy your collective time!
-
- Randy Lambertus Cray Research, Region 4 rl@uk.cray.com
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