Current view

1903 view, with the Third Street Tunnel at right

Angels Flight is a landmark funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California, United States, which claims to be the "shortest railway in the world." Download high resolution version (768x1024, 136 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Funicular Railroad switch Angels Flight Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Angels Flight. ... Download high resolution version (768x1024, 136 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Funicular Railroad switch Angels Flight Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Angels Flight. ... JPG version of BMP. original text was: L.A.s famous funicular railway, Angels Flight, in 1903 (Photo courtesy LAPL Photo Database) This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... JPG version of BMP. original text was: L.A.s famous funicular railway, Angels Flight, in 1903 (Photo courtesy LAPL Photo Database) This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with full length parallel tracks A funicular, also called funicular railway or inclined railway, inclined plane, or in England a cliff railway, consists of a system of transportation in which cables attach to a tram-like vehicle on rails to move it up and down a... The Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles as seen from USC. Bunker Hill, in the downtown area of Los Angeles, California, is a short, developed hill with its peak located roughly around 3rd Street. ... The Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles as seen from USC, which makes up most of Downtowns skyline. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ...

Built in 1901 as the Los Angeles Incline Railway, running northwest from the west corner of Third and Hill Streets, it was closed in 1969 as the Bunker Hill area underwent a total redevelopment from a declining neighborhood of poor transients and working class families renting rooms in run-down Victorian mansions, to an urban core of 50-story glass highrises housing banks and financial instituions. Although the railway was dismantled, all the parts were placed in storage in anticipation of the railway's restoration. The railway was restored and reopened half a block to the south of the original site in 1996, almost 30 years after its dismantling. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Angels Flight has since closed due to an accident in 2001, which killed octogenarian passenger Leon Praport and injured seven others, including Praport's wife Lola, who narrowly survived. The City of Los Angeles commissioned conductor David Woodard to compose and perform a memorial suite honoring Mr. Praport and "Sinai & Olivet", the funicular's quaintly named cars. On March 15, 2001, Los Angeles Chamber Group performed An Elegy For Two Angels at Angels Flight's Hill Street landing under Woodard's baton. Angels Flight is currently scheduled to reopen during 2006, though a firm reopening date has yet to be scheduled. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Angels Flight was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2000. The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

See also

• Court Flight
• Heritage railway
• List of heritage railways

A scene on a heritage railway. ... List of heritage railways is a link page for any heritage railway anywhere. ...

External links

• Angels Flight at USC's Los Angeles: Past, Present and Future Website
• An Elegy For Two Angels
• Angels Flight Virtual Ride

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from MapQuest or Google Local
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Local or Microsoft Virtual Earth

• • Close-up color aerial from TerraServer-USA or Google Local
• Accident report from National Transportation Safety Board
• Transit Rider Photos
• Angel's Flight, the film

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a U.S. government independent organization responsible for investigation of accidents involving aviation, highway, marine, pipelines and railroads in the United States. ...

Angels Flight in the Media

• Angels Flight is shown in in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly.