Moon Pennsylvania by Rachel Vigoda

Author:Rachel Vigoda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Published: 2018-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Duquesne Incline (lower station 1197 W. Carson St., 412/381-1665, www.duquesneincline.org, 5:30am-12:30am Mon.-Sat., 7am-12:30am Sun., one-way fare adults $2.50, seniors free, children 6-11 $1.25), one mile west, opened in 1877. It joined three other Mount Washington inclines but didn’t lack for passengers. In 1880, Scientific American magazine wrote of the Duquesne Incline: “On Sundays during the summer, 6,000 passengers are carried during the day and evening, the cars ascending and descending as rapidly as filled and emptied.” Ridership shrank after the advent of the automobile, and in 1962, the company that owned the incline decided not to invest in sorely needed repairs. The incline was shut down. A group of Mount Washington residents took up its cause, raising $15,000 in six months through the sale of souvenir tickets, baked goods, and shares in the incline company. Repairs were made, and the incline reopened. There’s an inexpensive parking lot across the street from the lower station, between West Carson Street and the Ohio River. Follow the red pedestrian bridge that crosses West Carson to reach the station. You’ll board one of two original Victorian cable cars and gain 400 feet of elevation in less than three minutes. At the upper station, find a small, free museum, gift shop, and observation deck with binocular telescopes.

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