July 27, 2024
Tag: suspension monorail
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Tuffi und die Schwebebahn
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The suspension monorail was invented in England in the 1820s. The distinction is small but the first suspended railway was opened on June 25, 1825, using a patent recorded by Henry Palmer. It was built to carry bricks, but as an opening stunt it carried passengers. Through the next 75 years several iterations of the…
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May 16, 2023 12 Comments
This love story is illustrated with chrome era postcards from the 1950s and ’60s. Bobbie proposed to Mary in the middle of a Vermont covered bridge. Every trip they took for the next three decades included visits to covered bridges. It is a story for the ages.