The OP is right about the Disneyland connection; it's more than a resemblance. The Wuppertal train was the inspiration for Murel Goodell's Trailblazer, the fir

The OP is right about the Disneyland connection; it's more than a resemblance. The Wuppertal train was the inspiration for Murel Goodell's Trailblazer, the first commercial monorail in the United States and the first modern monorail anywhere. Instead of steel wheels and rails, Goodell used rubber tires on a concrete beam. His first design was suspended like the Schwebebahn, but his investor, Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren preferred a straddle-beam type where the train sits atop the rail instead of underneath it. Goodell's second generation design is what was installed at Disneyland (and Las Vegas, and Tokyo, and China, etc.). It was named ALWEG as an acronym of the investor's name. I'm in the process of building the Goodell Monorail Museum website to lay out this history in more detail with some terrific archival documents and photos that haven't been seen in 50 years.