Visited Wuppertal last summer literally to see this train. It’s pretty much still as it looks in the photo. Except everything is brand new and spotlessly clean, including the train. This is Germany, after all.
As I understand it, the line is a bit of a non-sequitur in terms of technology. Nobody copied it so there are no off-the-shelf parts and so it’s expensive to run. But keeping everything modernized is seen as a sort of ongoing engineering challenge to help German technicians stay on the ball.
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Looks like a future that never happened
Here is the first person view of the Flying Train from 1902 in color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
man…
don’t do World Wars, kids. not even once.
Visited Wuppertal last summer literally to see this train. It’s pretty much still as it looks in the photo. Except everything is brand new and spotlessly clean, including the train. This is Germany, after all.
As I understand it, the line is a bit of a non-sequitur in terms of technology. Nobody copied it so there are no off-the-shelf parts and so it’s expensive to run. But keeping everything modernized is seen as a sort of ongoing engineering challenge to help German technicians stay on the ball.