PCAD - Court Flight Funicular Railway, Los Angeles

Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - railroad stations

Los Angeles, CA

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It was located on a line located between Broadway and Court Street, in the middle of the block between Temple Street and First Street.

A Los Angeles entrepreneur, Samuel G Vandegrift, opened this line on 12/31/1901. It followed a line 180 feet long inclined at a 42% grade.

This railway, once a rival of neaby Angel's Flight, was closed 10/20/1943 after a fire.

PCAD id: 6480