Mountain route
Monongahela Incline
Pittsburgh (Station Square) → Mount Washington · United States
Opened 1870, the oldest continuously operating funicular in the United States, and still a fare-integrated everyday transit link up Mount Washington.
- Distance
- 0.19 km
- Fastest time
- 2 min
- Average speed
- 6 km/h
- Top speed
- 10 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmMonongahela Lower Station
- 0 kmMonongahela Upper Station
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
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6060404: 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 108 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Monongahela Incline?
The Monongahela Incline runs 190 m from Pittsburgh (Station Square) to Mount Washington.
How long does the Monongahela Incline take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 min for the 190 m. That is an average of 6 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 10 km/h.
Who runs the Monongahela Incline?
Pittsburgh Regional Transit, with two counterbalanced 23-seat cars, electric since 1935.
How old is the Monongahela Incline?
The line has been in service since 1870. 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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