Photography

SEATTLE TIMES FILE, 1962

A crane moved into position to begin unloading the second World's Fair Monorail train at Northern Pacific Railway's Terry Avenue freight station.

ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

The Blue Train emerges from the tunnel through the Experience Music Project Saturday to stop at Seattle Center on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

SEATTLE TIMES FILE, 1962

A Seattle World's Fair monorail train, now officially under the operation of the Seattle Transit System, speeds its Fifth Ave. track with a load of passengers from the fairgrounds to a downtown terminal. This train has been in operation since last weekend, carrying thousands of local sightseers to and from the fair, scheduled to open April 21. A second train is to be in operation soon. Towering over fairgrounds, behind apartment building in the left background, is 600-foot-high Space Needle, which has a revolving restaurant and observation platform on top.

ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Shane Cobane performed as Elvis Saturday on the Seattle Center's monorail platform as the 50th anniversary of the trains was celebrated.

RON DEROSA / SEATTLE TIMES FILE, 1962

Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's cigar-chomping manager, lifted a dazed but happy girl off an electricab and into the midst of policemen at the World's Fair during filming of the movie "Take Me to the Fair." Presley, in the back seat, signed an autograph.

ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Jake Gearhart, left, his brother Will and friend Oskar Sunderland rode the Seattle Center Monorail on its 50th anniversary Saturday. Camera phones are held up as the Blue Train takes the curve through the tunnel in the EMP just before the center's station.