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.

Its track was 1600 feet long and gained 377 feet of elevation. 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.

Mount Oliver Incline

See also

Knoxville Incline

List of funicular railways

List of inclines in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Knoxville & St. Clair Electric Railroad

References

External links

Pittsburgh Historic Maps

Railway inclines in Pittsburgh

Defunct funicular railways in the United States

Railway lines opened in 1872

Railway lines closed in 1951

1951 disestablishments in Pennsylvania

1872 establishments in Pennsylvania

Mount Oliver Incline