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  ALWEG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alweg is best remembered for developing the original Disneyland Monorail System, opening in 1959, and the Seattle Center Monorail, opened for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition.
Alweg's technology was licensed in 1960 by Hitachi, which continues to construct monorails based on Alweg technology around the world.
Alweg's Seattle subsidiary Wegematic ceased operations in 1964, but some of the technology used in the Disneyland monorail was eventually acquired by Canadian company Bombardier.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ALWEG   (328 words)

  
 ALWEG - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alweg is best remembered for developing the original Disneyland monorail,opening in 1959, and the Seattle Center Monorail, opened for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition.
Alweg promised to take all financial risk from the construction, and the system would be repaid thru farescollected.
Alweg's Seattle subsidiary Wegematic ceased operations in 1964,but some of the technology used in the Disneyland monorail was eventually acquired by Canadian company Bombardier.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=ALWEG   (249 words)

  
 ALWEG: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ALWEG was a transportation company known for pioneering straddle-beam monorail monorail quick summary:
Alweg was founded by Swedish[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] industrial magnate Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren[For more, click on this link] in January 1953 as Alweg-Forschung, EHandler: no quick summary.
Alweg's technology was licensed in 1960 by Hitachi[For more, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alweg4.htm   (869 words)

  
 ALWEG: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alweg is best remembered for developing the original Disneyland (Disneyland: An amusement park in Anaheim created in 1955 by Walt Disney) monorail, opening in 1959, and the Seattle Center Monorail (Seattle Center Monorail: the seattle center monorail is an elevated monorail line in seattle, washington,...
In 1963, Alweg proposed to the City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles: A city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States), a monorail system that would be designed, built, operated and maintained by Alweg.
Alweg's technology was licensed in 1960 by Hitachi (Hitachi: more facts about this subject), which continues to construct monorails based on Alweg technology around the world.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/alweg4   (356 words)

  
 ALWEG: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alweg was founded by Swedish (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland)
Alweg's technology was licensed in 1960 by Hitachi[for more facts and a summary of this subject, click this link], Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Alweg's Seattle (A major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Ranier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer c)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/alweg4   (1105 words)

  
 Axel Wenner-Gren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of his most lasting (other than the foundations he founded) achievements was the development of the monorail train system, as originally built at Disney World and elsewhere.
Further information on his life and achievements will be added here, but can also be followed at the Alweg entry.
(Alweg is an acronym for his initials - Alex Lennart WEnner-Gren), and Weg sounds like "road" in Swedish, which may or may not be coincidental.
www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Axel_Wenner-Gren   (202 words)

  
 Don't destroy monorail to build another   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Alweg serves as a link between Seattle Center and the Metro bus tunnel, and will help the Green Line deliver the surge capacity that is needed during Bumbershoot and Sonics games.
If the ETC upgrades the Alweg columns, beams and stations as it builds the Green Line, it should at the same time add two new Alweg stations; the cost would be minimal and the increase in revenues substantial.
Alweg cars are 10 feet wide and have around 70 percent more carrying capacity.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/78191_alweg12.shtml   (821 words)

  
 Disney monorail world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In a Alweg of the hand excursion 1959 to Disneyland provided to critical of Alweg of the discussion that the monorail is "kidstuff" for the parks of the subject only.
von Modellen (egal oder von egal of teuer of the wie was wichtig of immer of auch of the wie of f?einem aussehenden begleitet of Zertifikat), deren enth of nicht of Namen Alweg of the guarida one of Beschriftung, ist - ausgedr?t of gelinde - fragw?ig.
Then the people of aircraft she approached the task totally of developing a new type of vehicle of the track without nobodies of the inhibitions that the traditional engineers of the railroad could have had when they were invited to leave principles of the two-track.
monorail.virtue.nu /disney-monorail-world.htm   (2401 words)

  
 Vegas News - Las Vegas Monorail News - Alweg Inspired Thoughts Today
Alweg's technology has endured through the decades, living long after the company itself, and is alive in monorails such as those at Disneyland, Japan and the Las Vegas Monorail, and just about every major monorail system in the world.
Although the Alweg Company, builder of Seattle's 1962 monorail, ceased to exist in the early 1970s, its monorail concept is still successful today and of course the Seattle Center Monorail is the last original Alweg left, demonstrating the viability of the Alweg vision.
The fire on Seattle's Alweg Blue Train that stopped the train right after its passage through the EMP "tunnel"occurred at a time when the tax payers of the city try to decide whether to build a new city-wide monorail system or not.
vegasnews.squarespace.com /las-vegas-monorail-news/2004/8/8/alweg-inspired-thoughts-today.html   (1572 words)

  
 Sherwood School - Zachary
The Alweg monorail line in Turin, Italy was built for the 1961 Exhibition.
It was the first Alweg type monorail for fare paying passengers in the United States.
The Gyroscope type monorail, in contrast to the Alweg type monorail, was the first fully stable monorail that did not rock.
www.nssd112.org /sherwood/Memories9899/5Berg/5berzachs.htm   (438 words)

  
 LA's Worst Transit Decision
The Alweg Monorail Company, which had gained world-wide recognition for its demonstration monorail at the 1962 Seattle Century 21 Exposition, was looking to establish a major foothold in the world of urban rail transit.
A former Alweg engineer once told me that there was much excitement for the proposal at the time, that is until Standard Oil got involved.
So kill the subway and telephone Alweg Monorail to accept their offer, made 30 years ago, to erect 12 crosstown monorails--free, gratis--if we let them run the traffic.
www.monorails.org /tMspages/LA1963.html   (402 words)

  
 MouseInfo.com - Disneyland Monorail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Disney wanted to put one in Disneyland, but Alweg told him that they had only tested the monorails on a flat track, and the inclines and turns that Disney wanted would be risky.
Disney convinced Alweg to sell him the monorails and they were built in Burbank, CA.
Alweg, seeing how the monorails were built, commented that Disney's dream would be attained.
www.mouseinfo.com /index.php?page=monorail   (334 words)

  
 History of the Disney Monorails   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Disneyland and Alweg joined efforts in the Summer of 1958 to develop the basic system into a working prototype for use at Disneyland.
Later versions of the Disneyland monorail improved on the Alweg system and in 1971 a much larger dual-rail system was built in Florida at Walt Disney World.
An Alweg monorail is currently under development for the Tokyo Disneyland Resort area.
www.mickeyxtreme.com /historyofthedisneymonorails.htm   (1462 words)

  
 NW Virtual Transit Center-Seattle Center Monorail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alweg Rapid Transit Systems of Germany stepped forward, to solve this problem in a 21st Century way: a monorail.
Alweg agreed to pay for the entire $3.5 million cost of a monorail system, securing both life and a bid for the project.
Alweg gave the entire system to the Century 21 Corporation, the operators of the fair, at no cost.
www.nwvirtualtransit.com /seattle/seattlecenter.html   (903 words)

  
 Alweg Monorail at Yesterland
The Disneyland Alweg Monorail opened in June 1959 with two Mark I trains -- one was red, the other blue.
It was part of a major expansion of Tomorrowland which also included the Submarine Voyage, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, and the Motorboat Cruise.
Photograph of the red Disneyland Alweg Monorail (Mark I): 1959 by Fred M. Nelson, Sr.
www.yesterland.com /monorail.html   (305 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Seattle Center Monorail -- History Worth Saving
Articulation is the ability of the bogey assembly to caster freely under the car body, allowing the guide tires to "steer" the bogey through the curves of the guide-way, keeping the load carrying tires in perfect alignment with the guide-way's direction of travel.
The earlier ALWEG design that was provided to Hitachi in 1960 did not incorporate these features, and they were not incorporated in the monorail trains produced by Hitachi during the 1960s.
The net result is that, even after 41 years in service, the Seattle ALWEG monorail trains still feature the most technologically advanced monorail bogey design operating anywhere in the world today.
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=4282   (2207 words)

  
 Disneyland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of Disneyland's signature attractions is its Alweg monorail system, installed in 1959.
The most recent generation, the Mark V, was installed in 1987 when more modern trains built by Ride and Show Entertainment eliminated the old ALWEG Buck Rogers-style trains.
Disneyland had a contract with Alweg which required the Alweg name to be displayed on the monorail.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disneyland   (6864 words)

  
 Vocabulary
Alweg - The German company that designed and built the Seattle Center Monorail and several other monorails around the World, including the one at Disneyland.
Alweg design - Designed similarly to the monorails designed by the Alweg company.
This could also be defined as the time between departures, or is commonly referred to the time between trains.
www.eskimo.com /~robertf/monorail/vocab.html   (1444 words)

  
 NCL and Monorails in LA (Was:Re: Monorail On Second Ave ?)
Alweg, the maker of the 1962 Worlds Fair monorail in Seattle, proposed monorail systems in both Los Angeles and Seattle, as well as potential plans for systems in Dallas, Atlanta, and Phoenix.
Sadly both systems were shot down, but the Los Angeles system made it closest to becoming a reality, as is chronicled in an article on Monorails.org.
In what would likely have been one of the first Turn-Key transit systems, Alweg would have designed, built and then turned over a fully operational 43 mile long monorail rapid transit system for the city, with 105 million dollar construction cost to be repaid out of the profits made in running the system.
www.subchat.com /read.asp?Id=41086   (637 words)

  
 Alweg Monorail: Hosed, Gavin Shearer, gavinshearer.com - Product Planning @ Microsoft Office
One other, marathon-related fact: the historic Alweg Monorail that connects downtown and Seattle Center is totally out of action as of last night.
The two cars smashed in to one another yesterday evening, thus fusing the two together and causing the blue one to list.
The views and opinions expressed on this Web site are mine alone, and do not necessarily reflect the position(s) of any organization(s) I may be affiliated with.
www.gavinshearer.com /weblog/archives/2005/11/alweg_monorail.html   (309 words)

  
 Vegas News - Vegas Buzz - Vegas News Service - Las Vegas Monorail Technology Originally from Germany and Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Alweg Company, founded in Cologne in 1951, publicly introduced its monorail concept on its test-site in Cologne-Fuehlingen for the first time in 1952.
So Alweg reference lines were built in 1961 in Turin, Italy, and in 1962 in Seattle, USA (where one of its two trains reached its one millionth mile on March 12th of this year and where the plans for a city-wide monorail system are progressing fast).
As a consequence Alweg reference lines were not built in Alweg's home-country, but in places where one wanted to see how an innovative future could be shaped.
vegasnews.squarespace.com /vegas-buzz-vegas-news-service/2004/07/19/las-vegas-monorail-technology-originally-from-germany-and-japan.html   (1477 words)

  
 User talk:Jpatokal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks for the article on the Alweg company, and for the updates on the Tokyo-Haneda monorail.
As someone who knew Wenner-Gren I am interested to know the background of your entry for Alweg.
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Jpatokal   (4288 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Rolf Krischer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This website is dedicated to the history of the ALWEG monorail system in memory of my father, ROLF KRISCHER (May 1911 - March 2000), mechanical engineer for the ALWEG FORSCHUNGGESELLSCHAFT, Germany, and its American subsidiary Wegematic Corporation from 1953 to 1967.
The Seattle Monorail was his most prominent project and we lived in Seattle from 1962 to 1966.
ALWEG mechanical engineer Rolf Krischer checking on one of the monorail trains in the "Seattle Center" ALWEG Maintenance in 1962.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Krischer_Rolf_45998146.htm   (187 words)

  
 blog'n at san onofre
More than 40 years ago, in 1963, I attended a meeting of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors at which the Alweg Monorail company outlined a plan to construct one or more monorails crossing L.A. north, south, east and west.
The company said that if it were allowed to build the system, it would give the monorails to us for free — absolutely gratis.
I took the microphone and said, "To paraphrase Winston Churchill, rarely have so many owed so little to so few." I was conducted out of the meeting.
www.sanonofre.com /blog/2006/02/freeway-is-past-monorail-is-our-future.html   (884 words)

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