ELEVATED MONORAIL URBAN OR SUBURBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

摘要

An elevated monorail transportation system employing a vehicle track consisting of a series of lengths of high strength cable each extending between and supported adjacent its end portion on adjacent support towers spaced along the track. The individual lengths of track cable act as one conductor for supplying electric power to the vehicles moving thereover, and a second cable extending generally parallel to and below the track cables acts as the second conductor. The ends of the track cables are supported on pulleys on the towers and are guided downwardly and laterally thereby in a direction to avoid interfernce with vehicles suspended on and moving over the track, with the ends of the respective track cables being anchored and retained under high tension at each support tower.