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Angels Flight Railway Review
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Angels Flight Railway
Transportation Sites, Downtown
Fodor's Review:
The turn-of-the-20th-century funicular, dubbed "the shortest railway in the world," operated between 1901 and 1969, when it was dismantled (but saved) to make room for an urban renewal project that saw total redevelopment of the Bunker Hill district. In 1996, 27 years later, Angels Flight returned with its two original orange-and-black wooden cable railway cars cabling people up a 298-foot incline from Hill Street (between 3rd and 4th streets) to the fountain-filled Watercourt at California Plaza. Due to a fatal accident in 2001, the railway has been closed while raising funds and undergoing a $3.3 million dollar repair and restoration.
INFO
- Address: 351 S. Hill St., between 3rd and 4th Sts., Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
- Phone: 213/626-1901
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