On: World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switze...

[discohead]

At precisely 90 degrees.

[mikeash → discohead]

Apparently not! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incline_elevator

It seems the distinction is that funiculars operate in balanced pairs, while elevators are independent units.

[mordechai9000 → mikeash]

I went to Germany this year and I made a point of planning a visit to a funicular. To my great disappointment, the funicular we found in Freiburg am Breisgau used a counterweight instead of another car. Now I wonder if it was really a funicular at all.

[mason55 → mikeash]

Funnily enough that page has a funicular listed under the incline elevator examples

[blattimwind → discohead]

Nope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town_Hall_(Hanover)#Histor...