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Monongahela Incline

Pittsburgh, Italy

Monongahela Incline

The Monongahela Incline is a funicular on the South Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Smithfield Street Bridge. Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the United States. Its lower station is locat

ed across the street from the Station Square shopping complex, and is accessible from the Pittsburgh Light Rail at Station Square station. It is one of two surviving inclines in Pittsburgh, along with the nearby Duquesne Incline, from the original 17 passenger-carrying inclines in the city. In 1977, both inclines were designated as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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