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In the German city Wuppertal there is since 1901 a suspension railway, in many ways unique and still in use. It barely take up any land, but insteads travels above the river Wupper that connects the villages that formed the city of Wuppertal.
In 1950 a bizarre accident occurred. A circus wanted to advertise by letting a baby elephant travel with the suspension railway. But only after a few hundred meters, the elephant got scared and started climbing inside the train. Hardly surprising the elephant crushed the walls and fell down in the river.