Nunnery Hill Incline

Nunnery Hill Incline
Overview
LocaleFineview, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°27′36″N 80°00′22″W / 40.460°N 80.006°W / 40.460; -80.006
Service
TypeFunicular
History
Opened23 June 1888[1]
Closed13 September 1895
Technical
Line length1,100 feet (340 m)[1]
Track gauge5 ft (1,524 mm)[1]
Minimum radius250 feet (76 m)[2]

The Nunnery Hill Incline was a funicular located in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in what is now the Fineview neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

  1. ^ a b c "Passenger Railways of the State of Pennsylvania". Philadelphia Securities (1893–94 ed.). Philadelphia: The Securities Press. 1893. p. 471.
  2. ^ "The Inclined Planes". The Street Railway Journal Souvenir: 39. October 1891.