Engineering : The Vehicle |
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D.C. Transit monorail proposal, 1959 | Monorail diagram, c. 1965 | Paris Metro, 1963 | Bond referendum poster, 1968 | Weese vehicle proposal, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||
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Beginning in the late
1950s, engineers considered all manner of vehicles. Government engineers
rejected monorails--which would necessitate larger, more expensive tunnels--and
rubber-tired trains, which are fine for all-urban systems but which do
not do as well on long, suburban straightaways. They settled on a more
traditional, duorail, steel-wheel vehicles with a low-maintenance exterior.
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