Angels Flight

Trevor’s Travels: Angels Flight Railway® is a short ride into Los Angeles history It’s perhaps purely coincidence that the first three letters of the word “funicular” spell “fun.” But then, “funeral” also starts with the same three letters, so maybe it doesn’t always work! My first experience with a funicular, a short railway built on a steep incline, was in Japan. My son, who lived in Tokyo at the time, hosted us for a couple of weeks and during a long weekend we went to Hakone. The journey, which he had planned carefully, required a train, boat ride [...]

The decades-long effort to save Los Angeles' iconic railway, Angels Flight® It's known as the "World's Shortest Railway," and it's reopening to the public Thursday in Los Angeles. The train, known as Angels Flight®, has carried people on and off for much of the past 116 years, traveling about 300 feet on a 33 percent grade in the heart of downtown L.A. But on many occasions throughout its long history, it almost disappeared for good. In 1901, the Angels Flight® Railway began what would be over 100 million trips up and down L.A.'s Bunker Hill. It was short, [...]

Tour the LA Locations of 'Bosch' Stroll by Angels Flight®, Pershing Square, and other places seen on the Amazon Prime series. It's a feeling of satisfied knowing that can wash over any television viewer, wherever they happen to reside: A park or a building or a lane from the town where the viewer lives suddenly appears on screen, eliciting a gasp or nod from the person watching. The thing is? That gasp or nod of recognition happens rather often with TV fans who call Los Angeles home, and picking apart why can take exactly 13 words: Many [...]

Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, announces the reopening of historic Angels Flight® Railway, with SENER’s participatio Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Angels Flight®, the iconic Downtown Los Angeles railway, has reopened to the public after a three-year closure. The Mayor celebrated the opening alongside Councilmember José Huizar, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Angels Flight® Railway Foundation, and the private partners that helped modernize the funicular over the last six months. “Angels Flight® is so much more than a railway — it’s a bridge to our history, and a window into countless moments of joy and wonder [...]

Through a Pioneering P3, Angels Flight® Takes Off Once Again It’s only 298 feet long. Dubbed the “shortest railway in the world,” it first ran more than 116 years ago. And if you ask Angelenos to name three things that are quintessentially Los Angeles, Angels Flight® will almost certainly be one of them. For a while, though, it looked like that might no longer be the case. It had fallen into disrepair and there had been accidents. It was shuttered. But thanks to an historic and innovative public-private partnership (P3)—the first transit P3 project in Los Angeles—Angels Flight® [...]

Mayor Snyder´s Ascent of the "Angels `Flight" Angels Flight®—everybody’s favorite FUNicular—is there a more iconic piece of Bunker Hilliana? All aboard! proclaims the city of LA! But don’t get too excited. It’s not open, so you’re not riding it today. Despite what you may hear, you’re not riding it anytime soon. Toodle down Hill Street between 3rd and 4th and eavesdrop on the guy with the clipboard, yelling at the zinc oxide’d folk, and get the five-cent explication: “Up there’s Bunker Hill, folks, and what a pain it was to shlep from your gracious home down to the [...]

Angels Flight®: The Story of an L.A. Icon Learn about the fascinating history of "The World's Shortest Railway" You can see it in more than a hundred movies, read about it in dozens of books and even do skateboard tricks on a video game version of it. And once again, you'll be able to ride Angels Flight®. After gathering dust for four years, the legendary, century-old funicular has been rehabbed and restored to its early 1900s glory. (It has also received a few 21st century safety upgrades.) The "world's shortest railway" is back in action, and once again [...]

Mayor Garcetti announces reopening of historic Angels Flight® Railway LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced today that Angels Flight®, the iconic Downtown Los Angeles railway, has reopened to the public after a three-year closure. The Mayor celebrated the opening alongside Councilmember José Huizar, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Angels Flight® Railway Foundation, and the private partners that helped modernize the funicular over the last six months. “Angels Flight® is so much more than a railway — it’s a bridge to our history, and a window into countless moments of joy and wonder that have helped [...]

Angels Flight® reopens amid fanfare in downtown LA after 4-year hiatus DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Angels Flight®, known as the shortest railway in the world, reopened amid fanfare in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning after a four-year hiatus. The popular funicular is comprised of two railroad cars that counterbalance each other as they ascend and descend Bunker Hill. "This is a very exciting day for all of L.A. -- for all of us who love history, for all of us who love downtown, for all of us who love that Los Angeles always hits above its [...]