The 2 rail overhead conveyor
1893 if Eugene Langen built a test track with
a length of 120 ms. This test track was built by the company Dortmunder Union which
has also cooperated later in the construction of the suspension railway. Eugene Langen gave
the name Suspension railway to this road.
Advantage:
Ø Many small cars on the distance could turn it.
Disadvantages:
Ø One could not go fast because, otherwise, the
road from the rails would have jumped, because she can move not laterally.
Ø Eugene Langen wrote to the company Zypen and Charlier,
" that with quick driving by the curves of the test distance moments can enter between the trace wreath of the wheels and the plugs which
could cause a misfortune. This feeling disturbs me, because a
single misfortune would bring our whole enterprise to the failure ... "
Ø At most speed 12 km/h.