Funimag Photoblog, Funimag’s former blog, has just been completely modernized, reorganized, and updated. It now focuses on in-depth articles about funicular railways. You’ll find old articles there, along with new ones that will be published regularly. In the archives, you’ll find all the news published in recent years in the form of posts.
As for new news, you’ll now find it, and have been for several years now, on Funimag’s social media channels, particularly on X (formerly Twitter) and BlueSky.
Below are the previously published in-depth articles…
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(US) Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway
Located in California on the north side of the Golden Gate, Mount Tamalpais railroad was known as the “Crookedest Railroad in the World”.
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(US) The great era of (lost) American funiculars
American people do not know and have forgotten that the United States of America have built the most spectacular funiculars but they have practically all disappeared.
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(FR) Le funiculaire du chantier du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre
It’s something that’s totally unknown, but there was a funicular in the same place as early as 1875, before the very famous one in Montmartre. It was used to build the Sacré-Coeur Basilica.
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(FR) Le plan incliné des Eaux-Bonnes (France)
Le plan incliné des Eaux-Bonnes, aussi appelé plan incliné Valentin-Hourat, est certainement un des plans inclinés funiculaires les plus inconnus en France.
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(AU) The Katoomba Scenic Railway (Australia)
“Scenic World” at Katoomba in Blue Mountains (New South Wales) Australia with the “Scenic Railway” the World steepest funicular.
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(US) Granite Railway – The first railroad in America (1826)
1826, the first railway and the first inclined railway were used to transport granite toward Boston for the purpose of erecting Bunker Hill Monument to commemorate the famous 1775 battle.