Angels Flight (1969) Funicular Railroad, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles

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Bunker Hill, Los Angeles - "waiting to be leveled, to make way for a new world of concrete steel and glass"

Angels Flight is a landmark and historic 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named Olivet and Sinai, that run in opposite directions on a shared cable. The tracks cover a distance of 298 feet over a vertical gain of 96 feet.

The funicular has operated on two different sites, using the same cars and station elements. The original location, with trackage along the side of Third Street Tunnel and connecting Hill Street and Olive Street, operated from 1901 until 1969, when its site was cleared for redevelopment.

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