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The world's shortest railroad is making its teeny-tiny runs again

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All aboard! OK now everybody off!

That's about how it goes with the Angels Flight — the world's shortest incorporated railroad — a downtown Los Angeles landmark that reopened on Thursday, four years after it shut down following a derailment.

Built in 1901, the funky little funicular was originally meant to shuttle privileged Bunker Hill residents from their Victorian mansions down to the city's historic core, sparing them 200+ steps when they went shopping.

It instantly became a tourist stop, an identity amplified by its brief appearance in La La Land — something Angelinos chuckled at, since it wasn't yet running at the time of filming — and, finally, its grand reopening hosted by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Read more...

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