Angel Flight Railway Novelty Landmark In Los Angeles, California Editorial Photo

One of the two cable cars of Angels flight railway descends from the Bunker Hill to downtown historic core of Los Angeles, CaliforniaBuilt in 1901 by Colonel J.W. Eddy, lawyer, engineer and friend of President Abraham Lincoln, Angels Flight is said to be the world`s shortest incorporated railway. The counterbalanced cars, controlled by cables, travel a 33 percent grade for 315 feet. It is estimated that Angels Flight has carried more passengers per mile than any other railway in the world, over a hundred million in its first fifty years. This incline railway is a public utility operating under a franchise granted by the City of Los Angeles.