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Berlin still has them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxYiz4knmkU

If i understand correctly, one of the distinctive things about New York's elevated railways is that they ran on top of roads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevated_railway#/media/File:R...

Whereas that line in Berlin looks like it's on a viaduct. Lines on viaducts are all over the place, including in London:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_%E2%80%93_Greenw...

As in Berlin, and i'm sure everywhere, the arches get used as commercial or industrial premises. We have a particular fetish for putting craft breweries in them:

https://www.beervanablog.com/beervana/2019/9/12/Londons-rail...

And so indeed does New York - sections of various lines run aboveground over the streets.

Parts of the BMT from this article still exist, but mostly aligned to and from Manhattan rather than across the borough itself.

I thought so. Reading this article I could have sworn there are of the subway to Queens from Manhattan being above-ground. Not sure why the article wouldn't mention that? The article is about New York, not Manhattan, so I'm not sure what they meant by a "forgotten" elevated subway.

Paris too ! They are currently doing work on them and the operator has put some cool videos online : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKVTfpzx7XQ

Els running on traditional steel structures can be pretty noisy. Using concrete structures could cause a lot of shading to the streets below I feel.

I wonder why this system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Suspension_Railway has been used only once worldwide.

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