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Old 08-21-2020, 01:06 PM   #381 (permalink)
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Wow, incredible stuff. That definitely fits in here. Some solid structural engineering to say the least. Looking at how they tied those footings into the buildings and the use of webbed beams I thought how amazing that it's all still there, then I checked the wiki and it looks like they've done some major reconstruction in the early 00's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
Yeah, I'm not sure about the monorail itself, but much of Wuppertal was damaged in the allied bombing raids of WW2.
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