Angel’s Flight Funicular by Ron’s Log

The Times has an article on the upcoming reopening of a longtime landmark, “Rebirth of Angels Flight”. This would be cool enough news as is, but it also gives an opportunity to consider what’s changed since it was forced to close six years ago.

When Angels Flight, the L.A. landmark dubbed “the shortest railway in the world,” closed in 2001 after a fatal crash, many wondered whether it was gone for good.

Officials announced Tuesday that the funicular will reopen this summer — but Angels Flight will return to a decidedly different downtown Los Angeles.