Hang On!

"Hang On!"  Were the fateful words of Monorail driver Willis Kirk (no relation to Capt. Kirk) just as his red train crashes into a steel girder at the Seattle Center.  Apparently the breaks failed and the fail safe break system also failed. This incident occurred on this date back in 1971.  It wasn't the first Monorail accident, there we a couple similar accidents in 1962 and 1963, however this did lead to 26 injures.  It wasn't to be the last accident either, a fire on the blue train basically ended the monorail as means of mass transportation in Seattle.  After the fire calls were made to have fire escapes built into the trains and the system.  Things only got worse from there and the project was scrapped.  Tonight views from the Monorail.