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Built in 1901 by Colonel J. W. Eddy, a lawyer, engineer, and friend of President Lincoln, Angel's Flight is said to be the world's shortest incorporated railway. Its counterbalanced cars, controlled by cables, travel a 33 percent grade for 315 feet. It is estimated that Angel's Flight carried more passengers per mile than any other railway in the world, over a hundred million in its first fifty years. This incline railway is a public utility operating under a franchise granted by the city of Los Angeles.
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