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Good Morning Gang! Sunday! Flo, I´ll have my big Sunday breakfast with all the works, please. Make that hot cakes, sausages, fried bacon, scrambled eggs, buttered toast, a glass of OJ (not the Simpson brand) and lotsa coffee, dear. Well, the teeth are not acting up as much as they did before. A good "flushing" with some old brandy (didn´t even know I still had that stuff) helped a lot. [swg]. I hope it´ll last for the next four weeks. Ken - click on "view", then select "properties" and there you can select, whether you´d like to have the track drawn as a single, double or double-filled line. Johnboy - nice reading about the "hanging" trains of Wuppertal. We lived not far away from Wuppertal in my childhood days, so I had the joy of riding these trains a number of times. Actually, I did not feel well doing so, knowing that there is no solid ground underneath my feat gave me a queasy feeling to my stomach. The line is now in its 111th year of operation and sports an all-time low of accidents. The most spectacular accident happened in 1950, when the Wuppertal Zoo used the line to transport a baby elephant to a photo shooting. The poor animal did not like that at all and somehow managed to open a door, falling into the river below, where it was rescued unhurt. To honor the brave baby elephant, all products of the local dairy now bear its name "Tuffy". 1999 saw the first fatal accident, when 5 people got killed  when a train "joined the birds" and fell into the river. Here are some recent shots: <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg/670px-Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg/670px-Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/NRWTag_W_Sparkassenturm_04_ies.jpg/800px-NRWTag_W_Sparkassenturm_04_ies.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/NRWTag_W_Sparkassenturm_04_ies.jpg/800px-NRWTag_W_Sparkassenturm_04_ies.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> ... and the old "Kaiserwagen" (Emperor´s Car): <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Wuppertal_kaiserwagen.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Wuppertal_kaiserwagen.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> Hielscher of Wuppertal produces an HO scale model of this fascinating railroad: <a href="http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/cms/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/a9f7c4377e16d4f2b745a9cc6e52b844.jpg"><img src="http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/cms/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/a9f7c4377e16d4f2b745a9cc6e52b844.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> Have a splendid day & TTFN!
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