Mount Oliver Incline | |
Linelength: | 1600feet |
Locale: | South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Open: | 1872[1] |
Close: | 6 July 1951 |
The Mount Oliver Incline was a funicular on the South Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1871 by the Prussian-born engineer John Endres and his American daughter Caroline Endres, one of the first women engineers in the United States.[2]
Its track was 1600 feet long and gained 377 feet of elevation.[3] It ran from the corner of Freyburg and South Twelfth streets at its lower end to Warrington Avenue at its upper end. It was closed on 6 July 1951.[1]