Mount Oliver Incline

Mount Oliver Incline
Overview
Locale	South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40.4244°N 79.9864°W / 40.4244; -79.9864
History
Opened	1872[1]
Closed	6 July 1951
Technical
Line length	1,600 feet (490 m)

The Mount Oliver Incline was a funicular on the South Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1871 by the Prussian-born engineer John Endres and his American daughter Caroline Endres, one of the first women engineers in the United States.^[2]

Its track was 1600 feet long and gained 377 feet of elevation.^[3] It ran from the corner of Freyburg and South Twelfth streets at its lower end to Warrington Avenue at its upper end. It was closed on 6 July 1951.^[1]

See also

• Knoxville Incline
• List of funicular railways
• List of inclines in Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, Knoxville & St. Clair Electric Railroad

References

1. "Mt. Oliver Incline Chugs Its Last". Pittsburgh Press. 7 July 1951. p. 3.
2. "Legendary Ladies: A Guide to Where Women Made History in Pennsylvania: Greater Pittsburgh Region" (PDF). Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Commission for Women. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
3. "The Inclined Planes". The Street Railway Journal Souvenir: 38. October 1891.

External links

• Pittsburgh Historic Maps

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