Every day, people in downtown Los Angeles step into a tiny orange train car, ride for less than a minute, and pop out at the top or bottom of a steep hill called Bunker Hill. This is Angels Flight, reputedly the world's shortest railroad. The National Register of Historic Places nomination for the site says the funicular opened on December 31, 1901, and was built by Civil War veteran Colonel J.W. Eddy. It has since been torn down, stored for 27 years, suffered a fatal accident, and opened and closed several times. And it's still going, more than 120 years later.
