Advantages:
keeps your electrical plant out of the weather
allows the track to be out of the road while allowing street level access to train. This one is a bit iffy as the dangle train will usually be put above street traffic.
Disadvantages:
look at how much steel it takes to make that box beam.
Every thing is in tension, leading to complicated structure to contain it, joints can be much simpler in compression.
Any how as a dangle-train connoisseur I leave you with two additional videos.
A dangle train in japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLrP5eawdY
The Tim Traveler (perhaps the best all around esoteric travel channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kwpj1UOrhs
For those travelling to Tokyo, go to Kamakura, take the famous Enoden to Enoshima, then take Shonan-Monorail to Ofuna and return to Tokyo.
https://www.zeit.de/2025/11/migration-neue-alte-einwanderung... https://archive.ph/mzM0P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc
As noted in the description, the 1902 video plays in real time, and the 2015 video has some cuts and framerate adjustments to keep them in sync.
Ja, ja, all fun and games... until your danglies drop. :( [1]
1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Wuppertal_Schwebebahn_acc...]
Not to count the baby elephant that fell out of one car back in 1950.
Wuppertal is a wonderful ride for many thousands daily, millions for decades, and is a wonderful model of visual, sane, safe engineered public transport.
Heavens to Betsy! And the elephant lived... till 1989! :)
> Wuppertal is a wonderful ride for many thousands daily, millions for decades, and is a wonderful model of visual, sane, safe engineered public transport.
Is ja jut, ich kauf' den Tagespass.
tormeh•3h ago
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Gigachad•27m ago
Most rails lines continue far enough to leave dense urban areas where this makes sense so they have to transition between elevated and ground level tracks which this can't do.