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Inclines Listed by Location USGS Quadrangle Name and UTM Grid
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Only the 1870 Monongahela Incline and the 1877 Duquesne Incline continue to operate today. view page - "Modern Hill Climbing" - The Duquesne Incline Plane Railway; Scientific American; September 18, 1880
Additional Information:
PITTSBURGH WEST
0579 4480
0582 4476
0583 4480
0583 4479
0583 4476 - Brown (coal?) incline site [pre-1872] - Grandview Av [formerly High St] between Merrimac At and Ulysses St [formerly Maria St and Union St], Mt. Washington, to West Carson St [formerly Washington Turnpike] - Kirk Lewis' Incline (coal hoist) site [1854-?] - Grandview Av [formerly High St] near present Duquesne Incline?, possibly confused with Brown coal incline 1872 Hopkins map shows "Old Incline Plane" on land owned by Wm. H. Brown at the top of McArdle Roadway, the former Monongahela Borough line. The Society for the Preservation of the Duqesne Incline notes "Kirk Lewis' Incline", a coal hoist built in 1854, reportedly near the current Duquesne Incline. They also note that the Duquesne Incline was built for Kirk Bigham and Associates. The 1872 map shows Thomas J. Bigham as owner of a large tract west of Bigham St, extending from the front of Mt. Washington south to Saw Mill Run. The Duquesne Incline is several hundred feet west of Bigham St. Hallock St, 1-1/2 blocks east of the Duquesne Incline, was the boundary line between Union Borough (Duquense Heights) and Mount Washington -- and marked the western edge of the Bigham property in 1872.
0584 4479
0584 4476
0584 4475 - Castle Shannon Incline site - #2 South Slope [1892-1914] - Bailey St, Mt. Washington to Warrington Av - Pittsburgh Coal Co. incline site [pre-1872-?] - route similar to Castle Shannon #1 North Slope - Neff St [formerly Nimick St] below Bailey Av and William St, Mount Washington to East Carson St at Arlington Av [formerly Pittsburgh and Brownsville Turnpike] - Monongahela Incline [1870-present] - West Carson St at Smithfield St Bridge to eastern end of Grandview Avenue at Wyoming Street, Mt. Washington - Monongahela Freight Incline site [1883-1935] - along east side of the passenger plane
PITTSBURGH EAST
0579 4483
0585 4476
0585 4475 - Mt. Oliver Incline site [South Twelfth Street Inclined Plane] [1871-1951] - South 12th St to Warrington Av
0586 4479
0586 4478
0586 4475
0586 4474
0586 4474
Others - Port View Incline site at south end of Port View Bridge over Youghiogheny River at 13th Av, McKeesport - John Harrison coal incline {1828-?] - opposite National Tube Works on Monongahela River - Oak Hill Coal Inclines #1 and #2 sites; Larimer, Wilkins Twp. - James O'Neil coal incline [18xx-?] - Mill St, West Elizabeth Borough
- Coleman mines incline [1856-?] - built by Levi Ludwick
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27-Jun-2000
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