LOS ANGELES — A famed funicular that carried 100 million riders over a century of operation is expected to reopen by Labor Day. The Angels Flight, which has been closed since 2013, will receive upgraded and renovated cars and safety improvemen…
A few more details from the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-angels-flight/
Close to the Red Line Pershing Square station and recently hipsterized Grand Central Market.
It’s shown in “The Glenn Miller Story” with Jimmy Stewart.
Excerpt from The Capital, Jan. 25, 1902
Los Angeles, a city of rapid advancement and original improvement, has produced one institution toward which its citizens have cause to point the finger of pride. Reference is made to the “Angels’ Flight.” The Angels’ Flight, as it has been christened by its originator, owner and proprietor, Col. J.W. Eddy, consists of a most perfectly equipped little cable railway up the steps of Olive Heights above the Third street tunnel and a beautiful little park, from which ascent is made to the tower by means of the flight proper. When one stands upon this tower the highest point within the city limits is gained, and a view, with the bustling city in the foreground, stately mountain scenery on the one hand and the broad Pacific on the other, cannot be excelled for interest and grandeur. Nothing can surpass a trip on the Angels’ Flight on a clear day, unless, perhaps, it is a visit in the evening, when to look down into the lighted city is like looking into some fabulous jewel-casket. At the top of the tower binoculars are at the disposal of visitors, as is also the camera obscura. This latter was perfected by Mr. Roy Jones of Santa Monica, who has devoted leisure time and much money to cameras obscura, and who is authority for the statement that the one at the Angels’ Flight is the most perfect in existence. The residents of the city and tourists alike are deli
Correctly, this film SHOULD be on the M, M & Smelter thread. BUT!
Does show one of these Inclined Railways @ Time 1:04.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7E779kues8
Film also shows a Steeple Cab changing from Side Arm Current Collection to Roof Pantograph, the former to off-set wire to allow dipper shovels to load cars.
Also is a view of a DRGW Articulated w/Tank Car water car, As Built, here.
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/drg1075.jpg
FWIW.
There used to be an Incline Railway to lower/raise patrons to ‘The Maid of the Mist’ sightseeing boat which circulated into Horseshoe Falls spray in Niagara Falls Gorge.
Sixty years ago there were PILES of ‘Suds’ on water surface cycling around.
Think Love Canal??
A few years later we cab rode an Alco HH Switcher @ Hooker Chemicals. Niagara Junction still Electric…
Thank You.
Not well known, but Los Angeles has been home to several other incline railways.
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/three-forgotten-incline-railways-from-southern-california-history
Mt. Washington: http://www.erha.org/washington.htm
https://www.kcet.org/lost-la/incline-la-the-lost-residential-railway-of-mt-washington-episode-2
Court Flight: https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/incline-la-angels-flight-and-its-lost-sibling-court-flight-episode-1
Lower portion of the Mount Lowe Railway: http://www.thaddeuslowe.name/mlechohouse.htm