[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
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🔗 Source video from The Museum of Modern Art channel:https://youtu.be/2Ud1aZFE0fU💖 Huge and sincere thank you to MoMA for making it available online in suc...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i really like how calm the street scenes are without cars. There’s also a 1902 / now comparison video which is kind of depressing, i thought i’d rather post something nice :)

  • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The situations where such infrastructure technologies make sense as the best option are pretty rare. Wuppertal had the unique combination of circumstances with:

    • a decently well-connected inventor and a supportive emperor
    • the urban/metropolitan area being in a narrow valley along the river Wupper
    • steep hillsides poorly suited for rail
    • geology poorly suited for tunnelling with late 1800’s technology
    • local steel industry
    • the ability to use the river as the right of way
    • the relative infancy of electric railway propulsion

    This all contributed to a suspended railway making a lot of sense in that case.

    Today, an average problem can be satisfactorily addressed with a form of conventional rail in most situations.