ALWEG

Alweg was a German transportation company known for its development of straddle-beam monorail technology. ==History== thumb|Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System, pictured in 1963 Alweg was established in January 1953 by Swedish industrialist Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH (), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne in West Germany. The company originated from the Verkehrsbahn-Studiengesellschaft (), which had presented early monorail designs and prototypes the previous year. The name "Alweg" is derived from Wenner-Gren’s full name. thumb|Seattle Center Monorail, pictured in 2008