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MONORAIL
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Despite a few mechanical setbacks, Houston unveil: its experimental monorail coach which its manufacturers say will eventually revolutionize America's public transportation. The monorail, which has been used in Europe more than 50 years, is a 60-,passenger coach which is suspended from a single overhead rail. The Houston version, being developed by a Bayou City corporation, is tested along a 970-foot line constructed in Arrowhead Park.
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On hand for the test runs are more than two dozen transit company officials from throughout the United States. Only one of them, Lawrence of San Antonio Wingertei s r o7iue .r
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Houston comes up with a different approach to the
usual christening ceremony. Instead of the traditional bottle of champagne, Mrs. Murel
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the unveiling of an experimental monorail coach in Houston.
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