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In January 2022, an image supposedly showing an elephant jumping out of a monorail above a river was posted to the r/OldSchoolCool section of Reddit along with the caption: Elephant jumped out of public Transport, Wuppertal, Germany 1950. This is not a genuine photograph of an elephant jumping (or falling) out of a rail car. However, an elephant really did jump/fall from a rail car and this image, a photomontage, shows what that incident may have looked like. In July 1950, Franz Althoff, head of the Circus Althoff, scheduled a promotional event that involved one of his circus animals, a young elephant named Tuffi, and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, a suspension railway in the German city of Wuppertal. The plan was to simply take photographs of the elephant riding in the railcar, but Tuffi got scared, barged through the doors, and fell into the river. Spiegel reported (translated via Google): While a number of reporters and photographers were at the event, and while these photographers managed to capture pictures of Tuffi purchasing a ticket and standing on the platform awaiting the train, none managed to snap a picture of the elephant during the chaos. The above-displayed image was created after the fact to commemorate the event. It is a photomontage (a composite of multiple images), not a genuine photograph, that was created for a postcard to commemorate the incident. Here's a newspaper clipping that was published in the Arizona Star in November 1950. 22 Sep 1950, Fri Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona) Newspapers.com Other than a few scratches, Tuffi was relatively unharmed during the incident.
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