Duquesne Incline

The Duquesne Incline is one of the two remaining and powered funiculars in Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It overcomes the steep south bank opposite the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, which unite here to Ohio River. This Inclines were mostly in the last quarter of the 19th century established to enable the steel workers who lived on the adjacent plateaus of the city quick access to their lying down on the riverbank workplaces.

The upper station of the Duquesne Incline on the hill named after George Washington was back like a museum and treated by their original features, photos, drawings, and schedules in the time in which the iron and steel city of Pittsburgh was the " Food of the USA". Tickets are perforated as before from contemporary -dressed staff. The two trains running in alternating tracks are from the early 20th century. From the upper station at the same time offers an impressive panorama of the city, which since the 1980s demonstrates the economic change of Pittsburgh of people suffering from smoke and fumes steel and iron city the center of services.