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Historic funicular at Horseshoe Curve Finally returns to service

ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — After years of work, the iconic funicular at Altoona’s Horseshoe Curve is back in service for the first ...
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Funicular

ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — After years of construction, the iconic funicular at Horseshoe Curve is back in service for the first ...

Montevergine Funicular: Seventy Years of Pilgrims and Innovation

Seventy years of honorable service, millions of pilgrims transported to the feet of Mamma Schiavona, and a story spanning ...
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Ribbon cutting held for funicular incline at Horseshoe Curve

For the first time in close to five years, the Funicular Incline at the Horseshoe Curve is fully operational.On Thursday, ...
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I took a 90-year-old funicular 10,300 feet above sea level in Bogotá — here’s what it was like

Colombia is flush with cable cars — and they aren't just pretty tourist features either. Bogotá and Medellín both have integrated cable cars into their public transit. So when I visited Bogotá, I was ...
BBC

Costs of keeping funicular going may outweigh its benefits, say MSPs

The costs of keeping the UK's highest railway running could outweigh its economic benefits, MSPs have warned. The Cairngorm funicular opened in 2001 at a cost £19.5m but in recent years it has been ...

A Century of the Montevergine Funicular: Bridging Communities and Faith

One hundred years since the blessing of the first stone. Seventy years since the first run of the Montevergine funicular.