Falls Incline Railway

Falls Incline Railway

The Falls Incline Railway, originally known as the Horseshoe Falls Incline, is a funicular railway in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It is located beside the world-famous Niagara Falls, at the Horseshoe Falls. The line was built, in 1966, for the Niagara Parks Commission, by the Swiss company Von Roll. It adopted its current name in the 1980s.cite web | url = http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/niagara-falls-on.html | title = Transit History of Niagara Falls, Ontario | publisher = David A. Wyatt | accessdate = March 24 | accessyear = 2007] cite web | url = http://www.niagaraparks.com/nfgg/fihistory.php | title = Falls Incline History | publisher = Niagara Parks Commission | accessdate = March 24 | accessyear = 2007]

Unlike the other incline railways at Niagara Falls, the Falls Incline was not built to descend into the Niagara Gorge below the falls. Instead it links the Table Rock Center and Journey Behind the Falls, on the Niagara Parkway just above the falls, to the higher level Fallsview Tourist Area, including the Minolta Tower, the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and several hotels.cite web | url = http://www.niagaraparks.com/nfgg/fihistory.php | title = Falls Incline History | publisher = Niagara Parks Commission | accessdate = March 24 | accessyear = 2007]

The funicular has the following technical parameters:cite web | url = http://www.niagaraparks.com/nfgg/fihistory.php Falls | title = Falls Incline History | publisher = Niagara Parks Commission | accessdate = March 24 | accessyear = 2007]

*Length: "51.8 metres (170 ft)"
*Slope: "30 degrees"
*Cars: "2"
*Capacity: "40 passengers per car"
*Configuration: "Double track"
*Maximum speed: "1 metre per second (190 feet per minute)"
*Journey time: "57 seconds"
*Track gauge: "1.85 metres (6 ft)"
*Traction: "Electricity"

ee also

* Incline railways at Niagara Falls

References

External links

* [http://www.niagaraparks.com/nfgg/firailway.php Falls Incline web page]
* [http://www.nfpl.library.on.ca/nfplindex/results.asp?action=browse&q=295&key=157 Images from the Niagara Falls Public Library (Ont.)]



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