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Show Monorailway Little Used, Though Fast, Safe, Cheap Although the monorailway, whose cars are suspended from a single overhead track, is a century old and admitted by eminent engineers to be the fastest, safest and least costly of all forms of rail transportation, trans-portation, the only country that has used it successfully is Germany, Ger-many, says Collier's. This line, which runs between the cities of Vohwinkel, Elberfeld and Barmen, has carried an average aver-age of 10,000,000 passengers annually, an-nually, at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour, since it was built 45 years ago. |