This hanging car line actually still exists today. You can visit this completely different world today. In fact it would be cool to do side by side of this video paced with a similar video today.
Holy moly, this one is staggeringly good. It's very difficult to explain and how immersive this one is. Sheer brilliance. Thank you very much for doing this work.
The town is called Wuppertal. A Wuppertaler is somone or something from Wuppertal. The town was however not called Wuppertal until 1930 when several smaller towns were merged. The rail was at the time of this film clip called Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen (Eugen Langen Monorail Overhead Conveyor System) and stations were originally built in Barmen, Elberfeld, and Vohwinkel between 1897 and 1903, three of the towns that eventually became Wuppertal.
Perhaps my favourite rendering by you NASS, not only for the incredible quality but moreover for how it made me feel. It's startling to fathom what humankind would have achieved over the last century if we didnt have needless wars to stunt our ingenuity and cultural development.
I feel sad how much Wuppertal has changed over a century. Die Schwebebahn is still running today. I grew up in a neighboring town 30 minutes away from Wuppertal. I remember my parents telling me a story about an incident in the 1950's that involved "Tuffi" the Elephant. As a publicity stunt, a Circus director thought it would be a grand idea to have Tuffi ride on the Schwebebahn. As you may have guessed, it didn't go well lol. The Elephant panicked. It destroyed the inside of the carriage, injured passengers, broke windows and fell into the river below. Tuffi survived with minor injuries. She was one lucky Elephant 😊
I’ve seen footage of this before it was remastered. This truly brings the people and surroundings back to life. It’s truly a fear of engineering and it’s so fascinating to see all those people going about their daily lives and who are now long since passed. The child on the swing in the garden and all the people going to and fro. I’ve since seen this flying train in modern times and how the surroundings have now changed. Many of the buildings long gone and replaced with industrial buildings. How sad, because back then it was beautiful. 😢
There is so much detail and great color that this almost looks like a science fiction video that is all computer created. Thanks for sharing this outstanding video!
This video is a classic, now remastered to an incredible level of quality. Perhaps one of the highest quality videos from that time that exist. It is incredible to see how beautiful the cities were at that time. So clean and simple. The people were beautiful and well dressed, elegant and slim. In reality it was a much better world than the current one despite all the technology and advances that we have that are useless and that ultimately do not give us a better life.
If you don’t think about the antisemitism, racism, homophobia, complete lack of equality between men and women, and major wars impacting each generation… But yeah it’s not comprehensible to me how we went from building beautiful things to not care at all about aesthetics.
Haha! P, get over yourself! Oh wait! I hear your social media virtue signaling clubmates calling. It seems it is dinner in your mother's basement tonight.
I live in Wuppertal and I'm using the "Schwebebahn" (Suspension Railway) almost every day! Of course now it is a modern railway. It's very important for the people in the city and it is the fastest way from the east to the west of the valley through the city. It takes about halv an hour one way.
It almost doesn't look the same nowadays, the Second World War destroyed everything here. It's a pity that many/all German cities lost their architecture. Greetings from Bochum near Wuppertal. I love your work, I hope at some point there will be a video with Bochum.
Simply fascinating! I was completely unaware of this existing until watching this video. And the colorization, the perfect touch! Wuppertal Schwebebahn 👍
Amazing footage; nice job. I see that the Wuppertal Schwebebahn looks almost identical to this very day and that although the city was bombed during WWII - 80% destroyed - there are still some historical buildings that were probably rebuilt after the war. It's quite amazing that they kept the Schwebebahn (suspension railway) looking so original as it must have suffered some damage during the bombing raids.
Incredibly impressive! My mother, who went through the July 1943 Hamburg firestorm brought on by massive bombing raids and later resided in East Berlin and took part in protests in and around 1953 told me about the Wuppertal Schwebebahn and I found it a fascinating feat of technology. It actually looked futuristic for decades. Wish I could show this to my mom who passed untimely some 15 years ago now.
Such a futuristic structure for the early 1900s - fascinating. I like seeing the people too - eg: the man on the horse and cart and the boys rolling along the big wagon wheel etc. Kudos to the person/s who added in the sound and colourised it - it really makes the clip come to life.
This is absolutely stunning in both the engineering and the visual aspects of a beautiful, peaceful setting. Your title (Flying Train) brought to mind another great development. The Schienenzeppelin (“Rail Zeppelin”) which, unfortunately, never made it beyond the prototype stage. When the Nazis came into power, the train was dismantled and, as WWII was looming on the horizon, it was presumably cannibalized for material to manufacture airplanes for the coming war. You've done a magnificent job here...thank you.
Notice how empty the streets were and how no one seemed rushed. How clean things were. So sad that much was lost during the world wars, not just places, but people, too. Thanks for letting us have a glimpse into the past.
Well there’s no automobiles. Just like in most films from before the 1950s. These old films have made me realise just how much having too many automobiles has ruined cities.
Ha Ha thats my hometown Wuppertal.❤ I just came home half an hour ago and I drove exactly this street beside the Schwebebahn (thats the name of the hanging train ) on the street with my car. Nice!
There is the Dresden Suspended Railway and the Shonan Monorail in Kamekura, Japan. The Wuppertal Schwebebahn was the first monorail in the world designed by Eugen Langen. It still exists. 😊
What an absolute delight to observe! Thank you for sharing. I don't mean to seem impertinent, but hopefully, future AI can get the color closer to the original time.
В настоящем грядущим живешь. Налегке, как на временной даче. Все о чем-то мечтаешь и ждешь, Веришь в будущем будет иначе. Только время так долго не ждет Всем известно, что жизнь быстротечна И грядущее тоже пройдет Лишь одно ожидание - вечно.
It seems so modern because the film is processed to look like it was recently videotaped. It's a world in total transition with a foot in two different eras of Mankind. The world above is the new modern industrial/technological world with a sleek speeding electrified monorail. The world below is still horse-drawn with piles of horse manure visible on the streets below, relying on a primitive animal-dependent technology that hadn't really changed in 10,000 years.
An interesting detail can be seen at 1:18. When the railway was officially opened, the line only went as far as the "Zoo" station. The section that was visible until then was only added around 3 months later. The round thing is the turning loop that was used during the opening phase. The turning loop was later dismantled. 70 years later, a turntable was installed at the same place again to turn the trains around. It was thought that this would enable the football stadium next door to be served more quickly. But that didn't work, as the 5-minute intervals were already very tight and the turning couldn't keep up. The thing was never really in operation. The system was also dismantled during the general renovation in 1999. Only the bases can still be seen on the embankment wall.
Incredible! 120 years ago and it looks like these footage was taken yesterday! what engineering art people were capable of back then! Life was somehow more relaxed back then, before the damn wars started..
This is Wuppertahl’s Schwebebahn, and it is still in usage today and most of those buildings are still there. Although there are a lot more automobiles on the road now.
Just as a trivia note: Wuppertal as a city didn't exist when this film was made. The movie starts by going down the main street of the village of Vohwinkel, and then goes down the Wupper river through the towns of Elberfeld and then Barmen. In the 1920's the communities combined into a single city. They couldn't agree whether to call the new city Elberfeld-Barmen or Barmen-Elberfeld, so they made a compromise and came up with the name "Wuppertal" which means Wupper Valley after the river.
Truely amazing what can be made from a 120 year old film. I find the sharpening and the cleaning even more impressive than the coloring. But also the speed adjustment is very important. Perhaps you should try and post such a film restored like this one, but in black & white still. In this kind of scenery it may look more genuine. Just a try...
I don't know what happened to my original comment, so I'll post it again. It's amazing that, for being in 1902, this seems kinda futuristic for its time.
Germany was on course to being one of the most technologically developed nations in the world. Far ahead of anything in the states, the UK or even in Japan and South Korea in todays times. Then WW2 hit of course.
The First World War set Germany back a lot more than the Second World War. In case nobody told you: Germany remains a technological leader, in many areas ahead of the USA. And actually Germany the USA and the UK we’re about even in technological advancement at that time.
In Gramado, Brazil, there is a place called “Aldeia do Papai Noel” (Santa Claus’ village) and there a train like this one in video transfer visitors from one station to other. It’s nice, children love it!
I love the footage in itself, this was ahead of it's time by more than 100 years. However the processing is a bit overdone - less is more in this case. The metal pillars of the Schwebebahn and some of the ground is too bright and colorful. But thanks for the very interesting video.
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Incredibly this is still in operation today, just with some upgrades. It's called Wuppertal Schwebebahn. What a beautiful video!
It looks like its original name was "monorail", and technically it is indeed, monorail (but not what they built in Moscow in 21st century).
@@AnuclanoIt's called "Eugen Langen Single Rail Suspension System"
In german, "Einschienige Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen"
It is called "Schwebebahn"! I live in Wuppertal since my birth. And so I know this name. There is no other name today!
This was 121 years ago and it still looks futuristic.
You can still ride in this system now, it’s called the Schwebebahn Wuppertal.
As much as I love it; futuristic it is not LOL.
@@danieleyre8913 It is both futuristic and antique.
@@danieleyre8913 how do you know that flying trains will not exist in the future? Are you Nostradamus or something? It IS futuristic, so phuck off!
@@Anuclano Real life steampunk. Looks like something from Dishonored.
@@exotszm Does not look steampunk to me at all. The system is fully electric from its conception.
Beautiful color! I swear, these trains look almost futuristic! Great work, NASS!
thank you very much
@@NASS_0 You're quite welcome.
FYI this system is still in usage today. Der Schwebebahn Wuppertal.
Does this make anyone seem like their looking at a completely different world
It does. Almost as if some of the potential for humanity was lost since then.
This hanging car line actually still exists today. You can visit this completely different world today.
In fact it would be cool to do side by side of this video paced with a similar video today.
Absolutely, almost feels warmer and more worthy of living there
@@patricksquires77There is one on RUclips.
@@patricksquires77 ruclips.net/video/7TqqdOcX4dc/видео.htmlsi=8CTZ7OTXPAOq82Ws
Holy moly, this one is staggeringly good. It's very difficult to explain and how immersive this one is. Sheer brilliance. Thank you very much for doing this work.
thank you very much
What a beautiful town. My German ancestors immigrated from there to America in 1848.
This footage is just AMAZING. Feel like I'm standing in time machine, travel back in time.
thank you so much
The town is called Wuppertal. A Wuppertaler is somone or something from Wuppertal. The town was however not called Wuppertal until 1930 when several smaller towns were merged. The rail was at the time of this film clip called Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen (Eugen Langen Monorail Overhead Conveyor System) and stations were originally built in Barmen, Elberfeld, and Vohwinkel between 1897 and 1903, three of the towns that eventually became Wuppertal.
Is it still up or did they take it down?
@@lindatohara6438 still up and running
Perhaps my favourite rendering by you NASS, not only for the incredible quality but moreover for how it made me feel. It's startling to fathom what humankind would have achieved over the last century if we didnt have needless wars to stunt our ingenuity and cultural development.
thank you very much
Beautiful. RIP to all the amazing people in this footage ❤
@@Jiminy-trx oh!!!… get living people!
some of them may be vampires
The feats of engineering is amazing. That’s is really impressive for 1902.
Dude, there is no such thing anywhere in our country in 2023 (Russia) =) It's really amazing...
@@MrKrevedзато у нас в Красноярске 30 лет метро строят😂. А в легендарном омском метро есть целая одна станция
I feel sad how much Wuppertal has changed over a century. Die Schwebebahn is still running today. I grew up in a neighboring town 30 minutes away from Wuppertal. I remember my parents telling me a story about an incident in the 1950's that involved "Tuffi" the Elephant. As a publicity stunt, a Circus director thought it would be a grand idea to have Tuffi ride on the Schwebebahn. As you may have guessed, it didn't go well lol. The Elephant panicked. It destroyed the inside of the carriage, injured passengers, broke windows and fell into the river below. Tuffi survived with minor injuries. She was one lucky Elephant 😊
I’ve seen footage of this before it was remastered. This truly brings the people and surroundings back to life. It’s truly a fear of engineering and it’s so fascinating to see all those people going about their daily lives and who are now long since passed. The child on the swing in the garden and all the people going to and fro.
I’ve since seen this flying train in modern times and how the surroundings have now changed. Many of the buildings long gone and replaced with industrial buildings. How sad, because back then it was beautiful. 😢
Feat
True.
Truly incredible
Mindblowing is that this was built when a car was still a rarity. By the way, putting it over the river is a great idea!
Wow they had this in Germany back in 1902 ? Amazing
It was great fun on a windy day.
Right! What amazing ingenuity for such a long time ago
Yes, the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway) began its operation in 1901. Amazing and unique till today.
Germany was and is the most progressive country!
There is so much detail and great color that this almost looks like a science fiction video that is all computer created. Thanks for sharing this outstanding video!
Thx ;)
Gorgeous architecture all around
This is one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen. Even for this channel it's mindblowing. Everyone on earth should see it 😦
thank you very much
so come to wuppertal and have a ride...
Never seen video of this tramway before, only still pics in history books. Fascinating! really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing it. Cheers!
Thx ;)
It’s still in operation today. It’s called the Schwebebahn Wuppertal.
This video is a classic, now remastered to an incredible level of quality. Perhaps one of the highest quality videos from that time that exist. It is incredible to see how beautiful the cities were at that time. So clean and simple. The people were beautiful and well dressed, elegant and slim. In reality it was a much better world than the current one despite all the technology and advances that we have that are useless and that ultimately do not give us a better life.
If you don’t think about the antisemitism, racism, homophobia, complete lack of equality between men and women, and major wars impacting each generation…
But yeah it’s not comprehensible to me how we went from building beautiful things to not care at all about aesthetics.
Haha! P, get over yourself!
Oh wait! I hear your social media virtue signaling clubmates calling. It seems it is dinner in your mother's basement tonight.
maybe you need those antibiotics because you're eating modern processed garbage or living a modern sedentary lifestyle?
Then get off yer comp now... you kariens r something else...
This is so fascinating to see, i wish there was cameras in midlle ages lol, it feels so nostalgic even tho i was born 80 years later. Amazing stuff.
thank you so much
Wow....I never seen these video in 1900s. After upgrade from B/W film. It's awesome !!
Used to live in Wuppertal.
This is such an incredible work Nass! Wow! Thanks for that!
Thanks ;)
Wow, I really respect Germany.
from Japan
I am at a loss for words 😮. It's beautiful. This is the best historical clip that I have ever seen. Wow. This is truly going back in time ❤thank you
thank you very much
I live in Wuppertal and I'm using the "Schwebebahn" (Suspension Railway) almost every day! Of course now it is a modern railway. It's very important for the people in the city and it is the fastest way from the east to the west of the valley through the city. It takes about halv an hour one way.
It would cost billions and take forever to build this today, how did they do this in 1902! 😲
Watching this video while sitting in the exact flying train 120 years later - Greeting from inside the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn 😀👋
It almost doesn't look the same nowadays, the Second World War destroyed everything here. It's a pity that many/all German cities lost their architecture. Greetings from Bochum near Wuppertal. I love your work, I hope at some point there will be a video with Bochum.
Destroying German heritage was intentional.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 that's the downside of genocide
@@tldogmeatThat's the downside of starting world wars, too.
@@naughtiusmaximus830The fucked around, and then they found out.
@@thechad4485 You really need a history lesson ....
Unreal. The quality is off the charts. I’m afraid awesome videos like these are the closest we will ever get to time travel.
thank you very much
1902?! Extremely ahead of their time!
Simply fascinating! I was completely unaware of this existing until watching this video. And the colorization, the perfect touch!
Wuppertal Schwebebahn 👍
Thx ;)
Невероятный ролик из футуристической параллельной реальности! Ваш канал - это машина времени, которая легко позволяет заглянуть в прошлое👍
Amazing footage; nice job. I see that the Wuppertal Schwebebahn looks almost identical to this very day and that although the city was bombed during WWII - 80% destroyed - there are still some historical buildings that were probably rebuilt after the war. It's quite amazing that they kept the Schwebebahn (suspension railway) looking so original as it must have suffered some damage during the bombing raids.
thank you very much
Incredibly impressive! My mother, who went through the July 1943 Hamburg firestorm brought on by massive bombing raids and later resided in East Berlin and took part in protests in and around 1953 told me about the Wuppertal Schwebebahn and I found it a fascinating feat of technology. It actually looked futuristic for decades. Wish I could show this to my mom who passed untimely some 15 years ago now.
Such a futuristic structure for the early 1900s - fascinating. I like seeing the people too - eg: the man on the horse and cart and the boys rolling along the big wagon wheel etc. Kudos to the person/s who added in the sound and colourised it - it really makes the clip come to life.
This is absolutely stunning in both the engineering and the visual aspects of a beautiful, peaceful setting. Your title (Flying Train) brought to mind another great development. The Schienenzeppelin (“Rail Zeppelin”) which, unfortunately, never made it beyond the prototype stage. When the Nazis came into power, the train was dismantled and, as WWII was looming on the horizon, it was presumably cannibalized for material to manufacture airplanes for the coming war. You've done a magnificent job here...thank you.
Looks great. Greetings from Wuppertal, the city of the “Flying Train”
Notice how empty the streets were and how no one seemed rushed. How clean things were. So sad that much was lost during the world wars, not just places, but people, too. Thanks for letting us have a glimpse into the past.
Most people today really don't comprehend how much things changed after WWI and II.
...and streets with no commercial advertisement posters demanding your constant attention.
A bit of fresh air.
Well there’s no automobiles. Just like in most films from before the 1950s.
These old films have made me realise just how much having too many automobiles has ruined cities.
@@danieleyre8913Yes. You walk out the door and immediately there's a lane whose crossing could kill you.
Built during optimistic times, little did they know what was coming. Much like today. Great video, amazing work.
Ha Ha thats my hometown Wuppertal.❤
I just came home half an hour ago and I drove exactly this street beside the Schwebebahn (thats the name of the hanging train ) on the street with my car. Nice!
There is the Dresden Suspended Railway and the Shonan Monorail in Kamekura, Japan. The Wuppertal Schwebebahn was the first monorail in the world designed by Eugen Langen. It still exists. 😊
Wow! It's like a Disneyland ride!
Thanks!
thank you very much for your support, it really means a lot to us.
What an absolute delight to observe! Thank you for sharing. I don't mean to seem impertinent, but hopefully, future AI can get the color closer to the original time.
Stuff like this just blows my frikken mind! This video in particular is like you wonder what could they NOT do back then.
Way ahead of it's time
Germans are always ahead of the time.
naturlich@@bartobruintjes7056
В настоящем грядущим живешь. Налегке, как на временной даче.
Все о чем-то мечтаешь и ждешь,
Веришь в будущем будет иначе.
Только время так долго не ждет
Всем известно, что жизнь быстротечна
И грядущее тоже пройдет
Лишь одно ожидание - вечно.
It seems so modern because the film is processed to look like it was recently videotaped. It's a world in total transition with a foot in two different eras of Mankind. The world above is the new modern industrial/technological world with a sleek speeding electrified monorail. The world below is still horse-drawn with piles of horse manure visible on the streets below, relying on a primitive animal-dependent technology that hadn't really changed in 10,000 years.
An interesting detail can be seen at 1:18.
When the railway was officially opened, the line only went as far as the "Zoo" station. The section that was visible until then was only added around 3 months later.
The round thing is the turning loop that was used during the opening phase.
The turning loop was later dismantled.
70 years later, a turntable was installed at the same place again to turn the trains around. It was thought that this would enable the football stadium next door to be served more quickly.
But that didn't work, as the 5-minute intervals were already very tight and the turning couldn't keep up. The thing was never really in operation.
The system was also dismantled during the general renovation in 1999. Only the bases can still be seen on the embankment wall.
SO COOL AGAIN THANKS NASS.....
Thx
As soon as I saw the title I knew it was Wuppertal! Great video!
Asked with the other comments. Amazing thank you so much
We were living in the future 122 years ago…
Incredible! 120 years ago and it looks like these footage was taken yesterday! what engineering art people were capable of back then! Life was somehow more relaxed back then, before the damn wars started..
Amazing and eerie like some parallel universe steampunk video.
I can feel that I am inside the monorail with them, everything seems so chil and relax compare with the cities of nowdays.
Amazing, thank you.
thank you very much
Die Qualität ist wirklich gut und die Aufnahmen sind beeindruckend!
How interesting… great job! ❤
thank you so much
Thank you for the video and greetings from Germany.
This is Wuppertahl’s Schwebebahn, and it is still in usage today and most of those buildings are still there. Although there are a lot more automobiles on the road now.
Dankeschön, ich bin 1980 in Wuppertal geboren und lebe bis heute in dieser Stadt ❤
Tolles Video 👍
🖤👍
This is a very well done project. Great job!
Just as a trivia note: Wuppertal as a city didn't exist when this film was made. The movie starts by going down the main street of the village of Vohwinkel, and then goes down the Wupper river through the towns of Elberfeld and then Barmen. In the 1920's the communities combined into a single city. They couldn't agree whether to call the new city Elberfeld-Barmen or Barmen-Elberfeld, so they made a compromise and came up with the name "Wuppertal" which means Wupper Valley after the river.
The colorization has really improved with this one. To think this is 121 years ago is mind blowing.
Extraordinary! Thanks!👏
Even today.. this would be an amazing infrastructure.. wow mind blown to know this was in 1902..
Still operates today - very impressive.
I wanted to get off and sight see. Beautiful and quite creative 👍👍🙏💕
Truely amazing what can be made from a 120 year old film. I find the sharpening and the cleaning even more impressive than the coloring. But also the speed adjustment is very important. Perhaps you should try and post such a film restored like this one, but in black & white still. In this kind of scenery it may look more genuine. Just a try...
Thx ;)
This is such a cool video!!! Thank you for sharing 🤩
What an amazing experience it was back then. Thanks for this video
Thx ;)
NASS, ThanksMuch!
thank you very much BRO
Constructed by the last civilization before us
I don't know what happened to my original comment, so I'll post it again.
It's amazing that, for being in 1902, this seems kinda futuristic for its time.
When you see something made in a genius way, the first thing that comes to your mind is that it is made in Germany! 😯
Germany was on course to being one of the most technologically developed nations in the world. Far ahead of anything in the states, the UK or even in Japan and South Korea in todays times. Then WW2 hit of course.
The First World War set Germany back a lot more than the Second World War. In case nobody told you: Germany remains a technological leader, in many areas ahead of the USA.
And actually Germany the USA and the UK we’re about even in technological advancement at that time.
@@danieleyre8913 back then, Germany was ahead almost 50 yrs
One of your masterpieces. It looks like a clip from the "Myst" games, but it's real, and the train still exists today.
Some major engineering in that project ‼️
In Gramado, Brazil, there is a place called “Aldeia do Papai Noel” (Santa Claus’ village) and there a train like this one in video transfer visitors from one station to other. It’s nice, children love it!
Do you have a link
Thanks - going to check out.
This one still exists too btw.
Wunderbar ! :o)
thank you very much
Looks like in a Steampunk movie... 🥸
👍 Sensationelle 😁 Bilder 📺 👍💯 einer vergangenen Epoche!
This particular video is so so cool.
Beautiful !!!!!
💛🐤
super merci à vous💚💚💚🐇🐇🐿🐿🐞💮🏵🏵🏵🍃
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Great video nass, incredible footage, beautiful engineering 👌, great work, well done 👌👍😀
thank you very much
They had a beautiful society...
Until they became literal Nazis… crazy how in the US people complain about injustice no one says shit about Germany and it was more recent
I love the footage in itself, this was ahead of it's time by more than 100 years. However the processing is a bit overdone - less is more in this case. The metal pillars of the Schwebebahn and some of the ground is too bright and colorful. But thanks for the very interesting video.
You can still book the Kaiserwagen (the 1st gen trains seen in this clip) for excursions today...
Great job.
thank you very much
I never knew that existed in 1902
Tolle Qualität. Genial. Leider fehlt Vohwinkel Sonnborn usw. Schade.
Warum? Direkt am Anfang siehst doch das Gebäude, wo jetzt die Locke drin ist (Stütze 37) und danach sonnborn und der Bereich wo jetzt das Stadion ist.
The colour in this version looks better and i could recognize details I didn't find in the Denis Shiryaev video.
This was amazing! It was like one long film scene. Industrial Revolution at its best
Absolutely amazing for its time. Was it destroyed in WWl or ll?
Magnifique
thank you very much
Nice work!
It is a different world before the great reset.
Man of culture here
Who knew. Excellent vid.
thank you very much
Wow, just amazing.