@Leo I know you want to go ride the Wuppertal suspended train, but there may be another one (or three) to check out while you’re there.
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That’s cool! There’s a long article on Wikipedia explaining why these upside-down monorails never became widespread. It does mention the Dusseldorf line which is equally antique.
I find the uprated period footage of the Schwebebahn fascinating, especially as it feels like this is what 1901 thought towns would look like in, say, 2000. A vision of a future that didn’t happen. It has some similarities with the roadways in the air in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film “Metropolis”.
Went to the Mobility Museum today. They had a lovely little model of one of the original cabins of the Wuppertal Bahn. They had more pleasant design way back when than in the late 20th century.
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It also seems like a solution to the problem of the Wuppertal area partially being a narrow valley with too little space for anything taking up more space than what can be hung over the river. 
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