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Incline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California by Donald Duke w/ DJ
Incline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California by Donald Duke
Incline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California
Donald Duke
Hard Cover w/dust jacket (has some damage)
240 Pages
Copyright 1998
Contents
Introduction 9
Incline Railway of Los Angeles
1.Angels Flight 27
2.Court Flight71
3.Mt. Washington: Its Hotel and Incline Railway 83
4.The Getty Center Incline 123
5.Griffith Park Railway & Incline Company139
6.Mount Hollywood Scenic Railway
Griffith Park Scenic Incline Company143
Incline Railway of Southern California
7.Mount Lowe Incline Railway 153
8.Island Mountain Railway 183
9.Industry Hills Cable Incline Railway207
10. Arrowhead Incline Railway215
11. Glendale & Verdugo Mountain Railway 225
Index 233
Los Angeles is fortunate to have one of the nation's most modern, and high-tech, incline operations located at the Getty Center. It transports 1,200 passengers per hour, from an underground parking garage, to the galleries and museum on top of the hill.
All inclines are not the same, nor is the track they run on. Angels Flight, the Mt. Lowe Incline, and the one that ran up Mt. Washington, were all two-car, three-rail systems, with a passing track in the center. Court flight was also a two-car system, but with a separate wire rope attached to each car. So one car was independent from the other. The Island Mountain Railway on Catalina Island, was a single-track system, with one-car going up on one side of a mountain, while the other car went down on the opposite side.
This book presents, for the first time, a look at all these commercial or proposed inclines of the Southern California region. Learn which was the shortest railway in the world, and one which was nearly a mile in length. Until the Getty Incline was built, the Industry Hill Incline Railway was the newest. It was built in 1978.
A dozen inclines are presented in this book. Learn how they came about, who built them, and why some of them were abandoned. Angels Flight disappeared in 1969, but was reconstructed in 1996.
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