In my earlier topic, "Funicular Railways - Out of Curiosity", a reply stated that Angel's Flight still existed in Los Angeles just off I-5 between San Fenando Valley and West Los Angeles. That did not sound quite right, since I had just a few months or so back looked up info on the web about it. Well, here is a little more info on it.

The railway was relocated, but only a short distance from the original spot. In relocating it, there was extensive modifications made to the original design, although the original cars retained there names: Sinai and Olivet.

Brooklyn N Trak held one of its shows this past weekend. Here are two items you ight be interested in viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcDfvf9YFQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5e1IxeRp0E

The first is a brief film and te second is a slide show.

You might notice a hobby shop is in one of the scenes. This appears on a module built one of Brooklyn N-Traks founding members. It seems he worked at that shop after he retired. Unfortunately that shop is no longer in business so don't try to find it.

Irv

Heres' one for you.

I am trying to get my home refinanced. The guy comes over to do the appraisal and tells the loan company that my garage is "unfinished." As a result, my loan did not go through.

Unfinished? My garage is is bewtter shape than the rest of my house. I think the idiot saw the wall down the center of the garage that the layout is attached to and thought that it was not complete. This guy was dumb. How about asking me. He asked about everything else. Frankly, I would really like to break a couple of his fingers, but that part of my life is over.

A "girlfriend" of mine was on an ocean cruise of Alaska recently and, knowing I was "into" railroading, picked up a booklet and postcard for the WP&YR for me. She just gave them to me this morning, so I thought I would share it with the members. It is a very interesting booklet and beautiful postcard, but I was then prompted to visit their web site and - wow - they really have some nice narrow gauge operating picks and there is a railfan and modeling section I am wanting to share: