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There is a semi-famous video from 1902 recording a ride on the then new Schwebebahn. MoMa digitised it and someone on Youtube did a side-by-side-recording of 19
by ttepasse 2y ago
There is a semi-famous video from 1902 recording a ride on the then new Schwebebahn. MoMa digitised it and someone on Youtube did a side-by-side-recording of 1902 vs. 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc
There are two other suspended monorails in the Ruhr are, both driver-less and shorter, built in the 80s and 90s by Siemens, the H-Bahn at Dortmund University and the Skytrain at Düsseldorf Airport. I drove the H-Bahn daily, because computer science back then was distributed all about the campus. Still have fond memories about it. (Less so about the degree.) The Tim Traveller on Youtube recently did a video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kwpj1UOrhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kwpj1UOrhs
- asyx 2y agoI lived in the student housing at the… southern campus? The apartment buildings that are in Eichlingenhofen. But I went to the FH not the TU which is in the other site of campus. I spent a lot of time on the H-Bahn. It’s super cute and feels kinda sci-fi-ish.
- mock-possum 2y agoInteresting that the old one is moving slower, and has to keep cutting ahead to stay in sync - at first I thought it was just an illusion by different spacing of support struts passing in parallax