'The Flying Train' (1902) from the MOMA's archive upscaled and coloured by youtuber Denis Shiryaev. The video depicts a ride on the Wuppertal Suspension Railway in 1902—more here instagram.com/p/CKOPplLjjUz/
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This video shows the course of the suspension railway from Vohwinkel to Elberfeld. The city of Wuppertal did not exist yet at that time and the railway connected a series of towns on the river Wupper
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The Suspension Railway, designed by Eugen Langen, was inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm II on October 24, 1900.
Here's MOMA's original video:
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All things considered, this 1910 concept for zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes was far less futuristic than we might now expect
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Wuppertal Suspension Railway in 1913
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Aerobus test track in Dietlikon, Switzerland, in 1974
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Three-storied rocket-powered monorail with gyroscopic stabilization (1954) by Ed Valigursky
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À propos of alternative universe...
The Wuppertal Suspension Railway as photographed for LIFE magazine by Walter Sanders (1951)
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