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  2. Cable cars and funiculars in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Temple Street Cable Railway began service on July 14, 1886. It was bought by and merged into the Pacific Electric Railway, which replaced the cable cars with electric streetcar service on October 2, 1902. The route was transferred to the Los Angeles Railway in 1910. Service on the last remaining portion of the route was discontinued in 1946.

  3. Angels Flight - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Streetcars in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Main article: Cable cars in Los Angeles Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902, [ 2 ] when the lines were electrified and electric ...

  5. Second Street Cable Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Second Street Cable Railway was the first cable car system to open in Los Angeles. [1] Opened in 1885, it ran from Second and Spring Streets to First Street and Belmont Avenue. The completed railway was 6,940 feet long, just over a mile and a quarter, with a power house constructed in the middle, at Boylston Street. [ 2 ]

  6. Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway - Wikipedia

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    The base station of the LA&MWRC is also still standing. Currently located at 200 W Avenue 43, Los Angeles, CA 90065, the cable car station overlooks the Metro A Line just south of the Southwest Museum stop in the Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast LA. The base station on Avenue 43 was declared Historic Monument #269 in 1983.

  7. List of funicular railways - Wikipedia

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    Playa del Rey (1901–1909) Two cars ran in a counterbalance configuration from a Los Angeles Pacific Railway stop at the base of the Westchester cliffs to a hotel at the top of the bluff. Legend has it that the two cars were named 'Alphonse' and 'Gaston'.

  8. Mount Lowe Railway - Wikipedia

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    The cable was a 1 + 5 ⁄ 8-inch (41 mm) steel cable spliced in two spots, one below each of the incline passenger cars and looped in a continuous strand around the grip wheel at the top of the incline and a tension wheel at the bottom. The cable was replaced every two or three years.

  9. Fansipan - Wikipedia

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    Fansipan (Vietnamese: Phan Xi Păng, listen ⓘ) is a mountain in Vietnam. Its height was 3,143 metres (10,312 ft) in 1909, and it presently stands at 3,147.3 metres (10,326 ft). [ 1 ] It is the highest mountain on the Indochinese peninsula (comprising Vietnam, Laos , and Cambodia ), hence its nickname, "the Roof of Indochina".