Meme-Free Zone

Will be shown 5 minutes late tonight, starting at 7.20 and finishing 8.05

Good thing I checked, my recorder was set to switch off at 8.02

Here's the next part of my BtVS / Time Bandits crossover Drabble series:

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Is the German "suspended railway" from Elbersfeld to Barmen of the late 19th century of any great engineering or historical interest? Looks like a monorail, but there isn't actually a diagram, just pictures that don't show the suspension very well.

I'm going to scan the article describing it but it's very short and doesn't say when it was built, amongst other things. It'd be nice to add some historical and engineering context.

Here's the pictures from the monorail article - five fairly large pictures, so behind a cut:


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OCR may take a while since the layout is a going to cause problems.

Here's the monorail article - not doing anything fancy with the layout for livejournal, but it'll be a bit better on the FF CD-ROM and web site when I have the graphics links sorted.


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If anyone spots anything that looks like an error please comment.