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The
Angel's Flight Railway
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Los Angeles, California |
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Angels
Flight (or Angel's Flight) is a landmark funicular railway in the
Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
It
has two funicular cars, Sinai and Olivet.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
The
funicular has operated on two different sites, using the same
cars and iconic station elements.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
Built in 1901 by Colonel J.W. Eddy, lawyer, engineer and friend
of President Abraham Lincoln, Angels Flight is said to be the
world's shortest incorporated railway.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
The
counterbalanced cars, controlled by cables, travel a 33 percent
grade for 315 feet.
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It
is estimated that Angels Flight has carried more passengers per
mile than any other railway in the world, over a hundred million
in its first fifty years.
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