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funicular
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funicular
1. a railway up the side of a mountain, consisting of two counterbalanced cars at either end of a cable passing round a driving wheel at the summit
2. relating to or operated by a rope, cable, etc.
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funicular [fə′nik·yə·lər]
(engineering)


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Others include the Angel's Flight funicular railway in the Bunker Hill area of downtown, the Towers of Simon Rodia in Watts, the site of the San Fernando Mission and the site of Campo de Cahuenga in North Hollywood, where a treaty was signed in 1847 ending the war between the United States and Mexico.
There are good views from atop the San Cristobal Hill, which is accessible by funicular railway, (Metro Tobalaba), cable car (called the Teleferico), bicycle or car.
Angel's Flight was a funicular railway that transported passengers up a steep incline, from Hill to Olive Street.
 
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