The German "flying train" of 1902

[RDMcG]

Nice little video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk&fe...

[loggo]

Excellent. Nice find

[CanAm]

And it's still in use.

[Speed1283]

An excellent find.

[55palfers]

How restful.

Amazing engineering

[anonymous-user]

Strangely relaxing to watch.

[ecsrobin]

Here’s the modern day railway although you can charter the original carriage for a trip. https://youtu.be/9IFh6wFTJiQ

[Wozy68]

Fabulous.... thanks for sharing. I’d never heard of it and now I want a go on it

[bobbo89]

Back in the 50's they took an elephant for a ride on this and it fell out into the river below, survived too!!

[joshleb]

Wow, that colouring, stabilisation and upscaling gives it a real dream like feeling!

[Simpo Two]

They call it 'speed correction' but I'd say they took it from 'about right' to about 20% too slow. Just look at the way people are walking.

[JuniorD]

What a cool video. It's like a better version of those late night German TV broadcasts you used to get, the ones with sped up footage from a camera mounted to the front of car just driving about the place.

[FourWheelDrift]

Simpo Two said:

They call it 'speed correction' but I'd say they took it from 'about right' to about 20% too slow. Just look at the way people are walking.

Change youtube playback speed to 1.25 I think that's not too far off. Especially when you see the horse pulling the cart and the child running early on.

[Simpo Two]

FourWheelDrift said:

Simpo Two said:

They call it 'speed correction' but I'd say they took it from 'about right' to about 20% too slow. Just look at the way people are walking.

Change youtube playback speed to 1.25 I think that's not too far off. Especially when you see the horse pulling the cart and the child running early on.

Which rather confirms they got it wrong... all that tech and they screwed up a basic!

[Robertj21a]

Wozy68 said:

Fabulous.... thanks for sharing. I’d never heard of it and now I want a go on it

It's an excellent experience, well worth the effort. Also sometimes known affectionately as the Danglebahn.

[RDMcG]

Interesting that there were still no cars. Even by 1902 there would have been the first few I would've thought,.

[aeropilot]

RDMcG said:

Interesting that there were still no cars. Even by 1902 there would have been the first few I would've thought,.

I doubt it in that part of Germany.

I remember as a child seeing old photos of this in books and being enthralled by it.......and have always wanted to ride on it.

[ianrb]

It's even been in a movie! I mean a real one, i.e. Farenheit 451.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqW1yyCiiSg

I'm assuming it is the same one, there can't have been many built.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

So quiet... So few people...

It has the look of an alternate history pc game.

[CanAm]

RDMcG said:

Interesting that there were still no cars. Even by 1902 there would have been the first few I would've thought,.

Lord Street, Liverpool, 1902. Not a car in sight. None showed up on any other Google image searches for 1902.

Edited by CanAm on Monday 17th August 21:32