Hi Mace, I did not say you pronounce my name wrong but with a little accent like nearly all native English speakers. 😊I think your pronounciation of German is rather good 👍 Regards from Munich, Gernot P.S.: the "t" at the end is not silent but my friends pronounce my name more French like "Gernòò" but that´s another story …
Me was born and raised in Wuppertal and used the "flying train" on a daily basis! Best part: no traffic jams you as got when you're going by car or bus … and you actually you don't really have to wait for the next "Schwebebahn" to arrive! You can hop in every 3 minutes!! Sadly I remember the crash in 1999 … a lot of people in that accident I knew! It was the first ride of the day, which I usually used, but lucky me pushed the snooze-button on my alarm for 5 more minutes … when I arrived in town: I've never saw so many rescue vehicles and stuff – that was really scary!
you can see the confusion in the north americans face when they see germany before the great war, as they only know the country from the wars onwards – as if before 1914 Germany was just empty. from the barbarians to now is our culture. to them 1914-2024. hahaha. so funny. but always ready to see them learn.
I live around 30km from Wuppertal, back when I was a child in the early 80s a lot families here made a trip to Wuppertal on the weekends. We parked the car where the Schwebebahn started and rode it to the zoo, spent the day at the zoo and road it back afterwards. I'll never forget the feeling when I first felt the sensation of it swaying in the curves 😀 The ride was a attraction of it's own, and equally important for me as the zoo 🙂
Consider the time span it was running, and the millions of people traveling with the Schwebebahn, its track record for number of dead and/or injured is outstanding. In over 110 years exactly one tragic accident with 5 deaths and around 20 injured people is incredibly low. As it stands it is the safest public transport system on the planet by any metric you might choose.
It also has potential for improvement. The French took this idea and enhanced it by making the train into an actual dangle train with an even higher safety margin at much greater speeds. A dangling train automatically pivots out at the bottom, tilting into the curve just by physics instead of technology, thus reducing sideways g-forces significantly. This allows for much higher curve speeds that automatically adjust due the centripetal forces pushing you INTO the seat or floor instead of at a lateral movement to the floor of the train. You just a slight increase of weight on your feet or bottom but don't need to counter the outward movement yourself.
Unfortunately the French never implemented a long distance train, and only built a short test track which was later demolished. The patents have yet to be released, so it was never implemented into a reality elsewhere. So the Schwebebahn remains only one of a handful of hanging suspension trains in the world.
No Sound today? The Melody you hum….that's from Austria. An der schönen blauen Donau. (At the beautiful blue Donau) Johann Sebastian Bach. Junior u guess.
I will test Vancouver public transport in July, when I will be there for two weeks. And then I can comment. There are three more systems built on the same Eugen Langen patents, but none as long as the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. There is the Schwebebahn Dresden, and there are two transporter bridges crossing a river (Osten) and a canal (Rendsburg). The later one is interesting because it is suspended from a railway bridge.
the best thing about the suspension monorail is that it disconnected from roads entirely, which makes it invulnerable to traffic jams, 5 meters of snow and other annoying stuff that troubles normal traffic. and there is also no timetable, because every 5 minutes a new monorail train arrives on every station.
Hello! Minute 7:26 to 8:41 The sound was GONE! A technical instructor at a very large chemical industrial facility once said that accidents don't "happen"; They are “caused”!
„Just“ 80k daily riders… with 25-30m long basically trams is still quite impressive… I mean, if you tried that with a „standard“ us buses of 40-80 (number obtained from codot) people, that’s still 1-2k buses, so 16.66666 HOURS of buses at a bus a minute (1k, or 2k if you count both directions), basically the physical limit of what can be moved, this doesn’t include the fact that travel demand isn’t consistent throughout the day and there’s a difference between rush hour and off peak… Don’t try to model how to move 73k cars a day through any reasonable street, technically a two lane highway (1900 cars an hour per lane) could just about do it, but with rush hour you‘d probably end up at 4,6 or more lanes…
And don’t forget, Wuppertal is a fairly narrow valley, space is an issue and the Schwebebahn nicely fits over the river bed for most of its journey
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Hi Mace, I did not say you pronounce my name wrong but with a little accent like nearly all native English speakers. 😊I think your pronounciation of German is rather good 👍 Regards from Munich, Gernot P.S.: the "t" at the end is not silent but my friends pronounce my name more French like "Gernòò" but that´s another story …
Do you know that Asperin was invented in Wuppertal too? And the former german President Rau was Born here? Or Friedrich Engels? Interesesting, no?😊
No audio from 7:25 to 8:40.
Sound stops completely at around 8 min in
Unfortunately at 7:25 you muted yourself
and unmuted yourself again at 8:42
Me was born and raised in Wuppertal and used the "flying train" on a daily basis!
Best part: no traffic jams you as got when you're going by car or bus … and you actually you don't really have to wait for the next "Schwebebahn" to arrive! You can hop in every 3 minutes!!
Sadly I remember the crash in 1999 … a lot of people in that accident I knew! It was the first ride of the day, which I usually used, but lucky me pushed the snooze-button on my alarm for 5 more minutes … when I arrived in town: I've never saw so many rescue vehicles and stuff – that was really scary!
MfG aus Wupper Valley 😁
Schwebebahn (lit. "floating railway", suspension railway) = SHVAY-BUH-BAHN (approx. pronunciation in English)
I think the term you looking for is Steam Punk
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Cool footage 2017 Steampunk Picnic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNppujSIcwU
Wave Gothic Festival in Leipzig East Germany
you can see the confusion in the north americans face when they see germany before the great war, as they only know the country from the wars onwards – as if before 1914 Germany was just empty. from the barbarians to now is our culture. to them 1914-2024. hahaha. so funny. but always ready to see them learn.
There's an old video (before the wars) which got colorized, stabilized and upscaled to hd.
I live around 30km from Wuppertal, back when I was a child in the early 80s a lot families here made a trip to Wuppertal on the weekends. We parked the car where the Schwebebahn started and rode it to the zoo, spent the day at the zoo and road it back afterwards.
I'll never forget the feeling when I first felt the sensation of it swaying in the curves 😀 The ride was a attraction of it's own, and equally important for me as the zoo 🙂
That's funny that this video comes right after my subscription yesterday. Wuppertal is my hometown. I took the Schwebebahn to school every day.
The pros: looks neat.
The cons: unmitigated logistical catastrophe if even one of the carts breaks down on-route.
But you say abouout.
up to 80,000 passengers daily
this is however slightly outdated, the current numbers are around 85,000 passengers daily
Consider the time span it was running, and the millions of people traveling with the Schwebebahn, its track record for number of dead and/or injured is outstanding. In over 110 years exactly one tragic accident with 5 deaths and around 20 injured people is incredibly low. As it stands it is the safest public transport system on the planet by any metric you might choose.
It also has potential for improvement. The French took this idea and enhanced it by making the train into an actual dangle train with an even higher safety margin at much greater speeds.
A dangling train automatically pivots out at the bottom, tilting into the curve just by physics instead of technology, thus reducing sideways g-forces significantly. This allows for much higher curve speeds that automatically adjust due the centripetal forces pushing you INTO the seat or floor instead of at a lateral movement to the floor of the train. You just a slight increase of weight on your feet or bottom but don't need to counter the outward movement yourself.
Unfortunately the French never implemented a long distance train, and only built a short test track which was later demolished. The patents have yet to be released, so it was never implemented into a reality elsewhere.
So the Schwebebahn remains only one of a handful of hanging suspension trains in the world.
No Sound today? The Melody you hum….that's from Austria. An der schönen blauen Donau. (At the beautiful blue Donau) Johann Sebastian Bach. Junior u guess.
Greetings from Wuppertal🙋🏼♂️
Cool pullover. Do you like EBM=Electroc Body Music. or is it something completely different?
I will test Vancouver public transport in July, when I will be there for two weeks. And then I can comment.
There are three more systems built on the same Eugen Langen patents, but none as long as the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. There is the Schwebebahn Dresden, and there are two transporter bridges crossing a river (Osten) and a canal (Rendsburg). The later one is interesting because it is suspended from a railway bridge.
Wupper = The name of the river "meandering" through the town.
Tal = valley
the best thing about the suspension monorail is that it disconnected from roads entirely, which makes it invulnerable to traffic jams, 5 meters of snow and other annoying stuff that troubles normal traffic. and there is also no timetable, because every 5 minutes a new monorail train arrives on every station.
I really love the "Schwebebahn"!
Hello! Minute 7:26 to 8:41 The sound was GONE!
A technical instructor at a very large chemical industrial facility once said that accidents don't "happen"; They are “caused”!
I can't wait to check out the Schwebebahn in Wuppertaler on one of my future trips to beautiful Germany :). Thanks for sharing.
There's still a major diary producer in the area using "Tuffi" as a brand. 🐘❤
„Just“ 80k daily riders… with 25-30m long basically trams is still quite impressive… I mean, if you tried that with a „standard“ us buses of 40-80 (number obtained from codot) people, that’s still 1-2k buses, so 16.66666 HOURS of buses at a bus a minute (1k, or 2k if you count both directions), basically the physical limit of what can be moved, this doesn’t include the fact that travel demand isn’t consistent throughout the day and there’s a difference between rush hour and off peak… Don’t try to model how to move 73k cars a day through any reasonable street, technically a two lane highway (1900 cars an hour per lane) could just about do it, but with rush hour you‘d probably end up at 4,6 or more lanes…
And don’t forget, Wuppertal is a fairly narrow valley, space is an issue and the Schwebebahn nicely fits over the river bed for most of its journey
Looks super like something form Diesel Punk