I’m not sure what’s most bonkers: the existence of this vehicle at the turn of the last century; its continued existence & operation ~120 years and two world wars later; or the advances in machine learning that allow this level of film restoration & enhancement:
Denis Shiryaev of Neural Love then took the original footage and used a neural network to upscale it to 4K. He also colorized it, stabilized it, slowed it down to better represent real-time, and boosted the frame rate to 60fps.
Check out the results:
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I don’t know how you find these things John. Both the railway and the improved footage are amazing, or ‘Vorsprung durch technik’. It’s worth looking at the Wikipedia page, but rather than pasting the direct link, I’ll let folk work back from this image (I’d still ride the train given the chance):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn#/media/File:12._April_1999_-_Ganz_Wuppertal_steht_unter_Schock.jpg