Mountain route
Fenelon Place Elevator
Dubuque (Fourth Street) → Fenelon Place · United States
Fenelon Place Elevator in pictures
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- Distance
- 0.09 km
- Fastest time
- 1 min
- Average speed
- 5 km/h
- Operator
- Fenelon Place Elevator Company
- Train
- Two counterbalanced house-shaped cars, winched at 41 degrees
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1882
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Built in 1882 so banker J.K. Graves could ride the bluff home for lunch — billed as the world’s shortest, steepest scenic railway.
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
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