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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 2132003)

Wow, incredible stuff. That definitely fits in here. Some solid structural engineering to say the least. Looking at how they tied those footings into the buildings and the use of webbed beams I thought how amazing that it's all still there, then I checked the wiki and it looks like they've done some major reconstruction in the early 00's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn

Yeah, I'm not sure about the monorail itself, but much of Wuppertal was damaged in the allied bombing raids of WW2.

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Kluse station, at the theatre in Elberfeld, had been destroyed during the Second World War. This was also reconstructed during the modernization-phase.

That's all they mention of it besides being closed during the war, but I'm sure if one were to dig further they could find more.

Your video clips are fascinating, Soundgarden, especially this one that shows how the system is still in use today, a fact which surely vindicates the design of a very unusual method of urban transport:-

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2131998)

For comparative purposes, here's a side-by-side video where you can see the footage above, compared with what taking a trip around on the same monorail looks like today

For comparison, here are some pics of more conventional elevated inner-city railway lines:-

London: sometimes the brick railway arches are put to good use, but that's more the exception than the rule.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c..._comp_V003.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...L1s9w&usqp=CAU.....https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/wp-...-rail-line.jpg

New York: what was once an intrusive solution to city traffic has redeemed itself in part since the development of the Highline Walkway:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...11187_orig.jpg

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/l.../22/101188.jpg....https://untappedcities-wpengine.netd...lsea-NYC-2.jpg

Bottom Line: Rather humdrum scenes after Soundgarden's Wuppertal video, I'm afraid :(

That's a very neat piece of construction: I'm assuming it's modern and built as a viewpoint, not what the used to do in the Meteora region of Greece, which was to overcome construction challenges to build religious retreats:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...u2SCw&usqp=CAU.....https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...qApjw&usqp=CAU.....https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...ssOUQ&usqp=CAU

Speaking of monorails:
(if the whole thing requires too much patience, skip to 2:30)