German vineyard monorails in the Moselle valley (and elsewhere?)

[702]

Many years ago I was on holiday in the Moselle valley, western Germany, and I remember that snaking around the vineyards that covered the steep valley walls, were a network of small monorails. Clearly they are for industrial purposes only, but I wondered if anyone knew anything more about them, had any stories, or interesting pictures or videos? And are there others elsewhere? I haven't been able to find too much, but there is this video of a tourist guide(?) talking about them to tourists ( German mono rack wine cart train and tracks on steep Moselle River bank ), a high-speed video on Facebook, and a few pictures below that I've taken from here, and here, and there is a short bit of footage showing someone loading one here (so credit to those websites/photographers).

 

[stuu]

Japan has loads of them, very small scale often with only a few hundred metres of track on each farm. I saw them on a trip through Japan years ago and tried to find out a bit about them - you can buy your own here! They look to be similar in principle to the photo you linked. There is not a great deal in English about them on the Internet, but searching just now shows that Doppelmayr sell them in Europe

 

[yoyothehobo]

i think Tom Scott did a video on them not too long ago (link to tom scott video on the monorails)

 

[702]

Japan has loads of them, very small scale often with only a few hundred metres of track on each farm. I saw them on a trip through Japan years ago and tried to find out a bit about them - you can buy your own here! They look to be similar in principle to the photo you linked. There is not a great deal in English about them on the Internet, but searching just now shows that Doppelmayr sell them in Europe

Oh wow! Well if I ever end up with far more money than sense I'd happily build one just for fun!

 

[eastwestdivide]

I’ve seen similar in vineyards in the Cinque Terre, Italy, on stupidly steep hillaides