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	Funicular - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In some cases, such as on the Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there are separate parallel tracks and platforms for each vehicle; the carriages' flanged wheels resemble those of standard railway vehicles.
		One of the most famous funiculars of its time was the Great Incline of the Mount Lowe Railway in Altadena, California, combining a funicular raising passengers 2,800 feet (850 meters) up the side of Mount Echo (elev.
		A particular feature of the Great Incline was that it was the first of the three-railed funiculars borne out of the need to reduce the amount of wide grading on the incline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Funicular (1061 words)

	Trams Stop Here: Pittsburgh Inclines Tribute Page
		While some of the area's inclines were decidedly short-lived, the survival of the more successful specimens until the mid-20th century and beyond was a testiment to their true utility and durability.
		Alas, these inclines were not nearly as well-situated geographically as the Mon and the Duquesne Inclines, whose guardian angels were able to point to those lines' enduring civic value as transit lines and tourist attractions, in addition to their historic significance.
		The Duquesne Incline was saved from oblivion largely due to the efforts of a group of concerned local citizens who formed the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline.
	members.tripod.com /~riid/inclines.html (1500 words)

	Monongahela Incline (1870) - Landmarks
		As a practical conveyance during the horse-and-buggy era, the Monongahela Incline was one of seventeen built and operated in Pittsburgh in the last century.
		While the Mt. Washington Incline was known as a coal-carrying incline plane in 1854, the Monongahela Incline is probably the earliest passenger-carrying incline in the United States and has been in continuous successful service since its construction.
		Inclines contributed greatly to the development of metropolitan areas in hilly terrain such as Pittsburgh, but were superseded by the automobile and improved roads in the early part of the twentieth century.
	www.asme.org /Communities/History/Landmarks/Monongahela_Incline_1870.cfm (249 words)

	Duquesne Incline - Scientific American 1880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Duquesne is the latest and most complete of four similar enterprises climbing the same mountain.
		The motive power, consisting of a double engine of 70 horsepower, is located at the top of the incline, and motion is communicated to the cars by the means of a large drum carrying steel wire cables of 1-1/4 inch diameter.
		The rails are of the T pattern, 40 pounds to the foot, and the gauge is 5 feet, the double trackway being 20 feet wide, allowing 3 feet between the cars at the passing point.
	pghbridges.com /articles/inc_duq_sciam1880.htm (678 words)

	Incline opens a view to a hill - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The Duquesne Incline viewing platform, which offers a view of the incline's inner workings, will be open to the public beginning at noon Thursday, which marks the 127th anniversary of the incline.
		For 127 years, the incline's twin red cars have glided effortlessly along the hillside, their inner workings largely hidden from view.
		The incline is quieter, and none of the plastic replacements have broken.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_194458.html (406 words)

	Duquesne Incline - Pittsburgh, PA - Insider Pages
		The Incline is such a special part of Pittsburgh and is rightly merged with the identity of the City.
		The incline is about 100 years old but is well maintained and professionally operated by the Port Authority of Pittsburgh.
		The Duquesne Incline, built in 1877, is always listed as a Pittsburgh tourist attraction, but Pittsburghers who have never ridden it should take advantage of it also.
	www.insiderpages.com /profiles/DuquesneIncline-30w7sp1cTMCn4LsTimhH3w (523 words)

	Duquesne Heights Incline celebrates 127th birthday by unveiling its inner workings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the Duquesne Heights Incline's 127th birthday yesterday, the public for the first time could get a close-up view of the giant wheels and cables that have kept the historic landmark going strong in its second century of operations.
		After a small ribbon-cutting ceremony, David and Ruth Miller of the nonprofit Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline led visitors through a tight turnstile, down a new stairway and onto a new interior platform where the incline's inner workings now are on display.
		The Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline was formed in 1964.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04142/319719.stm (476 words)

	Tribune Review Article
		The Penn Incline (1883), that operated between the Hill and Strip districts was possibly the largest incline ever constructed.
		The Cambria Incline, or "Johnstown Incline Plane," designed by Diescher in 1889-93, is still in service as are its Pittsburgh counterparts, the Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines; all three are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
		The Knoxville Incline on Pittsburgh's South Side is recorded as the longest incline built in Pittsburgh at 2,644 feet.
	www.phlf.org /news/mediaclips/1997/970601tr.html (1727 words)

	Mount Washington (Pittsburgh) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has a zip code of 15211, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by both the council members for District 3 (Central South Neighborhoods) and District 2 (West Neighborhoods).
		It is known for its world famous view of the Pittsburgh skyline, its funiculars (the Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines), and for the row of resturaunts paralleling the crest of Mount Washington, the hill the community sits upon.
		In the early history of Pittsburgh, Mount Washington was known as Coal Hill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Washington_(Pittsburgh) (162 words)

	Historic Cable Car Equipment Viewing Deck to Open
		For 127 years, The Duquesne Incline has transported commuters and visitors between West Carson Street, near the Fort Pitt Bridge, and the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Duquesne Heights every day of the year, including weekends and all holidays.
		The Upper Station of The Duquesne Incline is located in the center of the city’s “restaurant row,” which includes such well-known restaurants as Le’Mont, Pasquarelli’s, The Tin Angel, Georgetown Inn, and the Monterey Bay Fish Groto Restaurant.
		Free-of-charge parking is available for Duquesne Incline patrons at the parking lot between West Carson Street and the Ohio River.
	inclinedplane.tripod.com /news/NR-Incline-NewDeck.htm (621 words)

	Pittsburgh City Paper - ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Duquesne Incline is truer to life as it was lived 100 years ago; the Mon is truer to life as it is lived today.
		And in contrast to the stop-and-start motion of the bus-like T, both inclines are rail transit as it was meant to be experienced: stately, graceful and slow.
		Fares for both inclines are $1.75 for adults, 85 cents for children, and seniors ride free.
	www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws /prev/summer03/sg_5.html (773 words)

	Labor of love - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		A marvel of engineering and a crucial mode of transportation when built in 1877, the Duquesne Incline was deemed obsolete by 1963.
		To them, the incline was central to their community's identity and a signature feature of the Pittsburgh landscape.
		Duquesne ridership for the first quarter of this year was 46,916 -- 31 percent lower than the same period in 2002.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_133353.html (1012 words)

	Duquesne Incline, historic cable car railway serving commuters and tourists since 1877, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
		The Upper Station, on Grandview Avenue, includes a new platform for the public to view the Incline's historic hoisting equipment, as well as displays regarding the history of the Incline and the City of Pittsburgh, and pictures of other cable and rail cars from around the world.
		The Duquesne Incline does not now, nor has it ever, received any direct government subsidy for operations from the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or the Federal Government; nor, does it receive any funds from the recently-established Allegheny Regional Asset District.
		As long as credit is given to "The Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh PA" permission is hereby granted for copying these web pages or other distribution of the information contained within these pages.
	incline.pghfree.net (851 words)

	Editorial: Saving a landmark
		The Duquesne Incline and the Monongahela Incline, which doesn't have a ridership problem, are the last of 15 inclines that once operated in the city.
		Officials with the nonprofit Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline believe that more people who live on Mount Washington and surrounding neighborhoods now rely on their cars to get to jobs in the city below.
		The incline's declining ridership must not be allowed to result in its disappearance.
	www.post-gazette.com /forum/19991208edincline2.asp (411 words)

	Pittsburgh Inclines (Funiculars) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of Pittsburgh's distinctive features is its cable-powered inclines (known elsewhere as funiculars) for transportation between the river valleys and the communities on top of the overlooking bluffs.
		The Monongahela Incline (built in 1870) is located near the Smithfield Street bridge, directly across the Monongahela River from downtown Pittsburgh.
		The Duquesne Incline (built in 1877) is located just west of the Fort Pitt Bridge, and faces the Ohio River.
	web.presby.edu /~jtbell/transit/Pittsburgh/Inclines (857 words)

	Spring Topical Meeting 2006
		When The Duquesne Incline was opened to the public in May of 1877, it was one of four such inclined planes climbing Mount Washington, carrying passengers and freight to the residential area that had spread along the top of the bluff.
		The Monongahela Incline was the first of these to be built in 1869-1870; The Duquesne Incline followed in 1877.
		Well within the memory of present-day riders of The Duquesne Incline was the rectangular yellow commutation ticket with 39 numbers arranged on it to be punched by the conductor, one for each ride.
	www.aspe.net /meetings/2006_Spring/2006_Spring.html (1997 words)

	PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Monongahela Incline was built at a cost of $50,000 and opened on May 28, 1870.
		The Monongahela Incline was consolidated into Port Authority operations in 1964 and declared a historic structure by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1970.
		The Duquesne Incline was very close to going out of business in 1963, when a group of Duquesne residents raised money and took over its operation as the non-profit Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Incline.
	www.portauthority.org /ride/pgIncline.asp (335 words)

	Inclines & Funiculars, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the two remaining inclines in Pittsburgh, operated by a nonprofit society.
		One of those mentioned and photographed is the Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh.
		At the end of the article are links to websites of inclines and incline organizations.
	www.clpgh.org /subject/transport/rail/inclines.html (103 words)

	Duquesne Incline (1877) - Landmarks
		Designed by Sam Diescher, son-in-law of the Monongahela's designer John Endres, the Duquesne Incline opened May 20, 1877, as the second of seventeen built and operated in the Pittsburgh area.
		Like the Monongahela, the Duquesne was steam powered and then converted to electric and updated with modern safety devices.
		The Duquesne Incline used individual maple bull gear teeth in the hoisting machinery.
	www.asme.org /Communities/History/Landmarks/Duquesne_Incline_1877.cfm (155 words)

	Pittsburgh's Old Inclines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pittsburgh's Hills were once dotted with inclines, made of train rails that scaled the hills surrounding the city.
		These inclines were the quickest way to get from the Mount Washington down to Carson Street, or to navigate similar hills along the Allegheny River.
		The high standing town actually had five inclines in service at one time, The Castle Shannon Coal and the Monongahela and the Castle Shannon, as well as the Castle Shannon South, the Knoxville and the Keeling Coal Inclines.
	www.spdconline.org /history/Facts/Inclines.html (309 words)

	Side Tracks : Pennsylvania's Railways
		The Duquesne Incline has been shuttling passengers to the top of Pittsburgh's Mount Washington for over 100 years.
		The Duquesne Incline is one of two fully-operational inclines that scale Pittsburgh's Mount Washington.
		The Johnstown Incline is the world's steepest at 71.9 degrees, and an incline also allows visitors to get a spectacular view of Altoona's Horseshoe Curve.
	www.parailways.com /allaboard/sidetracks.html (740 words)

	Stuff That’s Gone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The history of the Duquesne and Mon Inclines is revealed through current and archival footage, and residents of Duquesne Heights discuss the importance of inclines.
		The Penn Incline operated in the Strip District from 1883 to 1953, and was probably the largest incline that ever existed anywhere.
		This was the first of the two inclines in Pittsburgh that had a curve in the track's route, but it was gone by the turn of the century.
	www.wqed.org /erc/pghist/logs/stuffgone.shtml (1951 words)

	Duquesne Heights
		and Duquesne Heights were known as "Coal Hill" in recognition of the prosperous mines located there.
		Their technical and engineering skills led to the construction of four inclines from 1867 to 1877, solving the long-standing problem of transportation; two of the inclines remain standing today.
		Offering perhaps the broadest range of housing opportunities of any Pittsburgh neighborhoods, Mt. Washington and Duquesne Heights' population are a mix of single professionals, "empty nesters", and families who have lived in the neighborhoods for generations.
	www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us /district2/html/duquesne_heights.html (158 words)

	Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - The City of Many Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The famous Duquesne Incline (a mini mountain) is on the other bank of the river.
		If you are facing the fountain, the Duquesne incline will be on your left, and the Science Center and the Steelers stadium on your right.
		The view from the Duquesne Incline is amazing and it is well worth it the ride in the wooden cart from the beginning of the century.
	casesblog.blogspot.com /2005/10/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-city-of-many.html (695 words)

	2004 Transit of Venus - Pittsburgh
		Photographs of the Transit of Venus across the solar disk, taken on the Observation Deck of The Duquesne Incline in the Mt. Washington/Duquesne Heights section of Pittsburgh on 2004 June 8.
		Friends of the Zeiss and the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline teamed-up to provide residents of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the only public viewing, with telescopes, of the rare Transit of the Planet Venus across the image of the Sun just after sunrise on Tuesday Morning, 2004 June 8.
		EDST, on the Upper Station Observation Deck of The Duquesne Incline.
	venustransit.pghfree.net (994 words)

	Friends of the Zeiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On June 8, the 8-inch reflecting telescope on the observation deck adjacent to the Upper Station of The Duquesne Incline will project the image of the Solar Transit of Venus onto a portable movie screen, for safe viewing.
		Observing of the Solar Transit of Venus, at the Upper Station of The Duquesne Incline, will be supervised by former Buhl Planetarium lecturer, and astronomical observatory coordinator, Glenn A. Walsh.
		On May 20, The Duquesne Incline opened a new platform that allows the public to view the operation of the historic equipment which moves the two cable cars, located at the Upper Station.
	buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com /venustransit/NRVenusTransit3.htm (943 words)

	AM98 Local Activities
		Ride the beautifully restored incline cars (Monongahela or Duquesne) to the top, just across the river from the hotel.
		Built in 1877, this beautifully restored historic incline car climbs Mt. Washington and provides a spectacular view of the city's skyline.
		Monongahela Incline, which links Station Square with Mt. Washington, is the oldest and steepest passenger incline in the U.S. phone 4124422000.
	www.asis.org /Conferences/AM98/html/am98_local_activities.html (830 words)

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