Monorail Man was created by the Seattle Monorail Services Maintenance Team from discarded parts from the Monorail trains and stations.
Fun fact: Monorail Man was built with about $15 in scrap metal. 
What are the Arm Lights made from?
Location: Monorail Station at Seattle Center
The Monorail was constructed in eight months at a cost of $4.2 million for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, a world’s fair hosted at Seattle Center.
Century 21 broke ground on the monorail in a ceremony at the Westlake Mall on April 6, 1961. The event featured the Seattle Symphony Orchestra 
, a speech from Senator Warren G. Magnuson, and free monorail tickets for the 500 people in attendance.
The last of the 138 guideway beams was hoisted and installed on January 9, 1962, near Denny Way, completing the 5,200 feet (1,600 m) of track.
The first monorail train, later named the Blue Train 
, was shipped in four sections from Bremen, West Germany, to Newark, New Jersey, and transported by train to Seattle. It arrived on February 19, 1962, and was lifted onto the trackway later that day. The second train, later named the Red Train 
arrived on March 27.
The Monorail opened to the public on March 24, 1962, nearly one month before the start of the World’s Fair. The trains carried more than eight million guests during the six months of the fair, easily covering the cost of construction.
To this day, the system retains its original fleet of two ALWEG 
trains from the world’s fair, each carrying up to 450 people.
