Type Funicular Stations 2 Closed 1900 Highest elevation 41 m | Status Ceased operation Opened 1882 Track gauge 10 ft (3,048 mm) Line length 107 m Termini Second Avenue | |
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The Fort Pitt Incline was a 10 ft (3,048 mm) gauge funicular railroad in the Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Opened in 1882, the incline ran from 2nd Avenue to Bluff Street, a distance of 350 feet (107 m), and a vertical distance of 135 feet (41 m). The designer was Samuel Diescher.
The incline was abandoned on 7 November 1900, and afterward sat idle for about three years before fire destroyed it.
Marking the former path of the incline are public steps which ascend from the south portal of the Armstrong Tunnel (at the South Tenth Street Bridge) to the Boulevard of the Allies next to the Duquesne University campus.
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