Construction Gallery - Calabar, Nigeria.
April 2015 photos by Intamin Transportation Ltd.

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Workers install pylons for the 1.1 kilometer, three-station shuttle monorail.

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Intamin has clearly adopted this dual-railed guideway for its latest monorails, which begs the question... should a dual railed system be called MONOrail?

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Track is ready for this ground level station

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Here is how they hold pylons in place before the last batch of cement is poured.

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Monorail! Yes, gradient changes still feature singular, non-split monorail track. The same can be said for turns. Do we call it a hybrid monorail? How about mono-duorail? That's a bit lengthy, but descriptive.

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Another angle of track leaving the station

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Some low level track, just high enough to be over pedestrians

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These are bases for track, with the destination convention center in the distance.

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It looks messy now, but this will be a spectacular river crossing.

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Another view of the low level track

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