The Seattle Center Monorail Station is located inside the remains of the 1962 Worlds Fair and is home to the space needle. The station is also where the office is for the monorail and the two platforms double as the maintenance bays for the two, red and blue monorail cars. The station has three platforms for the two tracks, the two outer platforms are exit platforms and cars open there doors their first to discharge all passengers (no free second round-trips) before the operator changes ends and passengers board from the middle island platform. The edges of the platforms, unlike at Seattle Center just have fences where the doors don't align but no doors that are opened and closed. Beneath both are maintenance pits and this station is where all maintenance takes places. Both platforms are covered metal canopies that also cover the tracks with curved roofs of translucent plexiglass. Entry is only beyond the bumper blocks at the ends of the platforms. The exit platforms have turnstiles on them so fare beaters can't try and enter trains from them, the island entrance platform has the single ticket booth where a cashier checks all tickets, ramps and staircases lead down to the many attractions of the Seattle Center such as the space needle. Just south of the station the tracks run thorugh the EMP Musuem/Experience Music Building before curving south and above 5th Avenue.
All Photos taken on 10 October, 2011
