The story
Angels Flight was built in 1901 as the Los Angeles Incline Railway, financed by Colonel J. W. Eddy. It ran from Hill Street at Third up to Olive Street. Its two cars, Olivet and Sinai, run in opposite directions on a shared cable and climb 96 feet over 298 feet of track.
The railway closed in 1969 and was dismantled the next day, and the cars went into storage. It reopened on February 24, 1996, half a block from the original site. On February 1, 2001, an accident killed an 83-year-old man and injured his wife and seven others. Angels Flight reopened to the public on August 31, 2017.
Everything that was here
- 1901–present · still open
Angels FlightLandmark / Transit
Two funicular cars named Olivet and Sinai share one cable over 298 feet of track, which a 1952 plaque called the world's shortest incorporated railway.
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