LA AS SUBJECT: How did a real estate developer transform Mt. Washington's chaparral slopes into a residential community? He built an incline railway.

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Closed more than ninety years ago, the Mt. Washington funicular is one of several Southern California incline railways lost to history, their remains rusting on hillsides or long ago sold for scrap, their memory preserved only in the photographs, films, and maps of the region's archives.

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