Angels Flight Railway
Two-block funicular railway climbing a steep downtown hill, billed as the shortest railway in the world.
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Angels Flight, the two-block funicular that has carried downtown Los Angeles workers up a steep hill since 1901, opens with the runaway crash of February 2001, when one of its twin cars came down the track with no brakes and struck the other, killing a rider. From there it traces the railway's odd life, torn down in 1969 and boxed up for decades before returning to service, only to keep running into trouble. It's a history of a tiny railway that refuses to stay shut down for long.
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