Germany : Ride a 100 year old Monorail

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.
Called the 'Schwebebahn', this monorail has been in operation for over
100 years. As a public transportation system it serves over 20 million
customer per year.
If you travel to Germany, you should plan to stop by and see, or better,
ride this train. Ah yes, and the city, located in a valley in the lower
hill country of western Germany is well worth a visit too.

For some more details and lots of photos go to http://schwebebahn.com
The site is in German AND English.

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http://www.schwebebahn.com

Too bad the site doesn't have the old news photo of the elephant
jumping from the monorail into the Wupper River.
http://www.campus-germany.de/english/4.22.3.1808.html
http://www.genista.de/kai/tuffi.html

In article t, Peter
wrote:

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.
Called the 'Schwebebahn', this monorail has been in operation for over
100 years. As a public transportation system it serves over 20 million
customer per year.
If you travel to Germany, you should plan to stop by and see, or better,
ride this train. Ah yes, and the city, located in a valley in the lower
hill country of western Germany is well worth a visit too.

For some more details and lots of photos go to http://schwebebahn.com
The site is in German AND English.

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http://www.schwebebahn.com

In article valid,
lid says...
Too bad the site doesn't have the old news photo of the elephant
jumping from the monorail into the Wupper River.
http://www.campus-germany.de/english/4.22.3.1808.html
http://www.genista.de/kai/tuffi.html

It's a question of copyrights!

All photos on the site are from the respective photographers
with a proper release.

If you have any photos of the schwebebahn, we would like
to add them to our exhibition!


Regards,

Peter

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http://www.schwebebahn.com

Peter wrote:

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.

Is this the one that was featured in the movie Fahrenheit 451?

-- Ron

In article ,
says...
Peter wrote:

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.

Is this the one that was featured in the movie Fahrenheit 451?

No, but it was basically inspired by it.

So was this japanese one: http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/Ueno.html



Regards,

Peter



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http://www.schwebebahn.com

Peter wrote:

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.
Called the 'Schwebebahn', this monorail has been in operation for over
100 years. As a public transportation system it serves over 20 million
customer per year.

Wasn't that in Wim Wender's "Alice In The Cities"?

K
http://www.regimechangeusa.org/

In article , Strat59_00
@yahoo.com says...
Peter wrote:

A little known city in Germany called Wuppertal (Near cologne, north of
Frankfurt) is home to an interesting monorail.
Called the 'Schwebebahn', this monorail has been in operation for over
100 years. As a public transportation system it serves over 20 million
customer per year.

Wasn't that in Wim Wender's "Alice In The Cities"?


Yes, it was.




Peter
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http://www.schwebebahn.com

Too bad it doesn't have a picture of Marshall McLuhan sniffing his sock
.... Timothy Leary would have paid real money for that ....

"Tom Nelson" wrote in message
m.invalid...
Too bad the site doesn't have the old news photo of the elephant
jumping from the monorail into the Wupper River.
http://www.campus-germany.de/english/4.22.3.1808.html
http://www.genista.de/kai/tuffi.html



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