MGM Grand station

MGM Grand
MGM Grand
	The platform at the station.
General information
Location	3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Coordinates	36°06′09″N 115°10′04″W / 36.102407°N 115.167709°W
Line(s)	Las Vegas Monorail
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1995 (original station) ; July 15, 2004 (official opening)
Rebuilt	2002 to 2004

MGM Grand station is a station on the Las Vegas Monorail. The station is the southern-most on the Las Vegas Monorail's route.

History

The Las Vegas Monorail was built to connect MGM Grand to Bally's in 1995. The coming-out party for the monorail, on behalf of Bally's, consisted of showgirls and guys from Bally's famed show, Jubilee!, helping groups to the monorail. Characters from the Wizard of Oz greeted the groups on the MGM side. The Las Vegas Monorail originally began service as the MGM Grand-Bally's Monorail in 1995. This initial system ran between the two hotels using two used Mark IV monorail trains that previous operated on the Walt Disney World Monorail. Built though a partnership between the two hotels, the MGM-Bally's system's construction was contracted to VSL Corporation. The two trains each ran back and forth on each beam, and were stored at a maintenance building near the Bally's station (this building still stands today, but it has been severed from the beam).^[2]

The track was later updated to become the southernmost section of the Las Vegas Monorail. MGM Grand station was refurbished, the trains were replaced with Bombardier M-VI's, and the track was extended beyond the southern station to provide for track switching for the trains, as well as a starting point for a potential future southern extension to the monorail line.

Nearby hotels

Venues

T-Mobile Arena

References

^ Curran, Stephen (July 15, 2004). "Las Vegas Monorail goes public". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
^ "MGM-Bally's Monorail, VSL Corp. (1995)". YouTube. The Monorail Society. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

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[July_15,_2004-1] Curran, Stephen (July 15, 2004). "Las Vegas Monorail goes public". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved December 17, 2010.

[2] "MGM-Bally's Monorail, VSL Corp. (1995)". YouTube. The Monorail Society. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

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