Monongahela Incline celebrates 153rd birthday
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Everyone's favorite funicular turns 153 years old on Sunday.
The longstanding Monongahela Incline opened on this day back in 1870.
Happy 153rd Birthday to the Monongahela Incline - the oldest operating funicular in the United States! 🥳🎈
— Pittsburgh Regional Transit (@PGHtransit) May 28, 2023
(Opened May 28, 1870) pic.twitter.com/hKsfNSaVn5
Designed and built by engineer John Endres, it is the oldest operating funicular in the United States. This incline, along with the Duquesne Incline, are the two last surviving inclines in Pittsburgh, both of which were built in the 1870s.
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