[cityskyscrapers]

The 1901 schwebebahn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwebebahn_Wuppertal) is an electric monorail in the German city Wuppertal that 'rides' a 13 kilometer (8 miles) suspended track in 30 minutes. Part of the tracks are above the small river Wupper, another part is above streets. The suspended railway also 'crosses' a large Bayer chemicals industrial site. Sometimes the 'Kaiserwagen' carriage from 1900 has special tours (see photo #10).

All photos taken 11 October 2008.

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[Alemaria]

Wow, thank you so much.

Those are some of the best pictures of the fabulous Schwebebahn I have seen so far.

I have to admit I have a slight obsession with it, it's so unique, urban and photogenic and I still haven't seen it in person. :(

I always wanted to go to Wuppertal only because of the metro but never managed to.


Great great pics, thanks for posting!

[M II A II R II K]

Now that's different.

[Top Of The Park]

I love those. It doesn't look like much capacity. I remember one in the movie "Farenheit 451"

[yerfdog]

Wow, that's pretty cool.

[alfajor]

How Cool Is That? 107 years old and still going as the first day...amazing.

From Wikipedia.
Info
Locale Wuppertal, Germany
Transit type suspended monorail
Number of lines 1
Number of stations 20
Daily ridership 72,000
Operation
Began operation March 1, 1901
Operator(s) Wuppertaler Stadtwerke (WSW)
Technical
System length 13.3 kilometres (8.3 miles)

Thanks for sharing

[FREKI]

Looks totally out of place and brutal but damn cool too!

The age is really impressive, it would be cool if somewhere close made a modern version of it :)

[Grumpy]

What an odd sight to see a train enter a stations without rails

[staff]

I love the Schwebebahn. I remember when I first saw it, I was like seven years old sitting in the back seat of my parents' car, and had no idea what those weird trains were. :haha:

[Patachou]

Beautiful pictures.
I love the Schwebebahn

[Coldrsx]

i didn't know awesome was tangible.