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The Monongahela Incline is a funicular on the South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Smithfield Street Bridge. Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the U.S.
Monongahela Incline Plane Company Now Port Authority of Allegheny County: Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Plane: before 1864 c. 1912 Carson Street Bailey Pittsburgh Coal Company: Mount Oliver Incline: 1872 1951 South Side Flats: Freyburg Street near 12th Street South Side Slopes: Warrington Avenue near Mount Oliver Street Pittsburgh Railways ...
The incline operated until 1935. [3] The older passenger incline, which was built in 1870, is one of two inclines still serving South Side Pittsburgh today, out of a total of seventeen that were built during the nineteenth century. Passengers can see concrete pylons remaining from the freight incline during the descent.
Cincinnati’s five inclines helped residents climb the city’s hills. They are long gone. But Pittsburgh still has two historic inclines in operation.
The Monongahela Incline was the first of these to be built in 1869–1870. The Duquesne Incline opened to the public in May 1877, and it was one of four inclined planes climbing Mount Washington that carried passengers and freight to the residential area that had spread along the top of the bluff. As the hilltop communities were virtually ...
They were the most common means of travel around Pittsburgh and South Side, until the first incline was opened. In 1877, The Duquesne Incline opened and ran from West Carson Street to Mount Washington. In 1870, the Monongahela Incline was built and it connected West Carson Street with Grandview Avenue. The Duquesne and Monongahela inclines are ...
The incline is unusual for using a 5 ft (1,524 mm) track gauge, mainly used in Finland, Russia, and Mongolia. Together with the Monongahela Incline, it is one of two passenger inclines still in operation on Pittsburgh's South Side.
Knoxville Incline (1890–1960) Monongahela Incline (opened 1870; still operational) Monongahela Freight Incline (1884–1935) Mount Oliver Incline (1872–1951) Norwood Incline (1901–1923) Nunnery Hill Incline (1888–1895) Penn Incline (1884–1953) Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Plane (bef. 1871–c. 1912) St. Clair Incline (1888–c. 1932)