Original upload date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:48:36 GMT
Did you know Houston had two monorails, one in the 50's and one in the 60's?
Our latest find from our old film vaults at Channel 13 show the only moving images of the Skyway monorail that was built i
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n 1966 at Houston International Airport, now known as Hobby.
It was designed to take passengers from the terminal to the parking lots at a speed of 10 miles an hour. The 20,000 pound car with 55 seats rolled on Goodyear truck tires and cover the 1500 foot track in five minutes. It was built in 1966 at a cost of $500,000 and was a two year experiment to test public reaction.
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