Take a ride on the Scwebebahn

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I’d been obsessed with it ever since I saw The Princess and the Warrior. (Between that and the funicular in Flashdance, there is just something about bad-ass chicks that commute via unique transit.) So, when I found myself with an unexpected free morning in Essen, Germany, after especially cooperative weather for photographing the day before, I hopped on the S-Bahn towards Wuppertal to see the famed train.

It was even better than I’d expected. I wanted to run up to people on the train and say, “do you realize that you get to commute every day on the coolest train ever?” Obviously, Wuppertalians are more blasé about the situation……read more.