Mountain route
Fenelon Place Elevator
Dubuque (Fourth Street) → Fenelon Place · United States
Built in 1882 so banker J.K. Graves could ride the bluff home for lunch, and billed as the world’s shortest, steepest scenic railway.
- Distance
- 0.09 km
- Fastest time
- 1 min
- Average speed
- 5 km/h
Stations
- 0 km4th Street
- 0 kmFenelon Place
The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, on it to within a metre
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Fenelon Place Elevator?
The Fenelon Place Elevator runs 90 m from Dubuque (Fourth Street) to Fenelon Place.
How long does the Fenelon Place Elevator take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 min for the 90 m. That is an average of 5 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Fenelon Place Elevator?
Fenelon Place Elevator Company, with two counterbalanced house-shaped cars, winched at 41 degrees.
How old is the Fenelon Place Elevator?
The line has been in service since 1882. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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