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Fairfax - Manor funicular 1913-1929. The Fairfax Incline Railroad Company's passenger car travels 500 feet per minute to reach the top of the 1,500-foot-long line on Manor Hill. The seats of the 26-passenger car were tilted so that passengers sat even with the hill's 33 1/3-percent grade. The funicular railway was conceived by Edward S. Holt, then president of the Fairfax Development Company, who wanted to bring prospective buyers up to lots for sale on Manor Hill. Inspired by the funicular railways he had seen in the Alps during a visit to Europe in 1910, he and partner George D. Gray pooled $10,000 to create a similar railway up Manor Hill.
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