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Quebec City, Old Quebec Funicular (1879–1907) cable, (1907–1945) electric, rebuilt in 1946, in operation to this day. (This has been modified to operate as a pair of inclined elevators , it is no longer a funicular )
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 Texas City Terminal Railway is an American terminal railroad that operates 32 miles (51 km) of track at the Port of Texas City in Texas City, Texas. [1] Established in 1921, [ 2 ] the TCTR is jointly owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway .
The Queen Anne Counterbalance was a funicular streetcar line operated by the Seattle Electric Company, serving the steep slope along its namesake street on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, from 1901 to 1940. It replaced an earlier cable car line built by the Front Street Cable Railway in 1891.
Otis Elevating Railway, ca. 1900. The Otis Elevating Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge cable funicular railroad leading to the Catskill Mountain House in Palenville, New York. For the first 64 years of its existence, the Catskill Mountain House was accessible only by a long stagecoach from Catskill Landing on the Hudson.
In 1888, an Act of Parliament authorised the formation of the Lynmouth & Lynton Lift Company. It was given the perpetual rights to extract up to 272,760 litres of river water from the Lyn Valley per day. [3] [2] The water-powered railway was designed by civil engineer George Croydon Marks, who provided the company's engineering expertise. [4]
Construction started in 1927, and the tunnel and associated railway line were completed and opened for use in 1930. The tunnel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and was designated a Texas State Antiquities Landmark in 2003. [2] The Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railroad Company built the tunnel for its own ...
A double lane road was built by the City of Hamilton which had to duck beneath the track in 1926, but it also removed 80% of the incline's traffic. The railway stopped running in 1936 when the company went bankrupt. [5] The historic structure was vandalized and finally demolished 1949-50. [1]