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Defunct funicular railways in the United States (33 P) Pages in category "Funicular railways in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular was opened in Braga (Portugal) in 1882, which is the oldest railway that is still operating as a water balance. [citation needed] In Germany, the last operating water balance railway is the Nerobergbahn in Wiesbaden. In Switzerland there is only one train left, the Funicular Neuveville–Saint-Pierre in Freiburg.
A ride up the railway Bottom entrance to the railway The Top Station. The West Hill Cliff Railway, or West Hill Lift, is a funicular railway located in the English seaside town of Hastings. It runs largely in tunnel, and provides access to Hastings Castle and St Clement's Caves from George Street, on the town's sea front.
Angels Flight is a landmark and historic 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named Olivet and Sinai, that run in opposite directions on a shared cable. The tracks cover a distance of 298 feet (91 m) over a vertical gain of 96 feet (29 m).
On 18 September 2014, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE) recognised the railway as a unique and outstanding example of British engineering as the first public water-powered total-loss funicular railway in the UK. [5] In April 2018, the cliff railway was briefly closed for safety checks following a landslip near the middle bridge ...
Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Above image zoomed out, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 The Women's Christian Temperance Union building, also known as Temperance Temple, at Temple and Fort (now Broadway) streets, with a Temple Street Cable Railway car, 1890. Cable car street railways first ...
In a funicular, both cars are permanently connected to the opposite ends of the same cable, known as a haul rope; this haul rope runs through a system of pulleys at the upper end of the line. If the railway track is not perfectly straight, the cable is guided along the track using sheaves – unpowered pulleys that simply allow the cable to ...
The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway is a 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge [2] inclined plane funicular railway leading to the top of Lookout Mountain from the historic St. Elmo neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee.