1902 German Suspended Train

Black-and-white POV along the elevated Wuppertal suspension railway track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud1aZFE0fU

Wuppertal’s Schwebebahn, opened in 1901, hangs passenger cars beneath an elevated steel track — a suspended monorail still running today.

The 1902 “Flying Train” film rides the line’s POV over streets and the Wupper river, an early document of elevated urban transit engineering.

Monday March 15th 2021