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    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…

  • Fairfax Manor Incline New Photo

    Fairfax Manor Incline New Photo

    Great and rare photo of the Fairfax Manor Inclined Railroad (1913-1930) in Marin County (California). It was an inclined railway with only one carriage and a counterweight. The carriage was rolling on the external pair of rails while the counterweight used the internal pair of rails. So… the counterweight was flat and passed under the carriage at the middle point.

    Nouvelle photo du Fairfax Manor Incline

    Exceptionnelle et donc rare photo du Fairfax Manor Inclined Railroad (1913-1930) dans le Comté de Marin (Californie).
    Ce fut un funiculaire, aujourd’hui complètement disparu, à quatre rails avec une seule cabine et un contrepoids.
    La cabine roulait sur la paire de rails extérieurs alors que le contrepoids utilisait les rails intérieurs.
    Le contrepoids était donc plat et passait sous la cabine à mi-parcours.

    Fairfax Manor Inclined Railroad
    Fairfax Manor Inclined Railroad

    Thanks to Joe Thomson and Guy Span for the photo in Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society.