Mountain route
Duquesne Incline
Pittsburgh (West Carson Street) → Duquesne Heights · United States
Duquesne Incline in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.24 km
- Fastest time
- 3 min
- Average speed
- 5 km/h
- Top speed
- 7 km/h
- Operator
- Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline
- Train
- Original 1877 J.G. Brill wooden cars in cherry and oak
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1877
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Original 1877 wooden Brill cars still climb the 30-degree grade to Grandview Avenue and Pittsburgh’s postcard skyline overlook.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6060405 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 171 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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