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Pittsburgh Inclines & Street Railways by Howard V Worley Jr Soft Cover
Pittsburgh Inclines & Street Railways by Howard V Worley Jr
Soft Cover
143 pages
Copyright 2005
CONTENTS
Pittsburgh Inclines
ALIQUIPPA INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
ALLEGHENY INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
ARLINGTON AVENUE INCLINE PLANE
BAILEY AVENUE INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
BELLEVUE INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
CASTLE SHANNON INCLINE NORTH
CASTLE SHANNON INCLINE SOUTH
CENTRAL INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
CITIZENS INCLINES PLANE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CITY INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
CLIFTON AVENUE INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
DUQUESNE INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
FORT PITT INCLINED RAILWAY COMPANY
GRANDVIEW INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
KNOXVILLE INCLINE PLANE
LOCAL INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
MONONGAHELA INCLINED PLANE PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY
MONONGAHELA FREIGHT INCLINE
MOUNT OLIVER INCLINED PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY
MOUNT WASHINGTON INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
MOUNT WASHINGTON INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
NORWOOD INCLINE
NUNNERY HILL INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
PARK INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
PENN INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
PENNY INCLINE
PEOPLES INCLINE PLANE COMPANY NO. 1
PEOPLES INCLINE PLANE COMPANY NO. 2
PERRYSVILLE INCLINE
PITTSBURGH INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
PITTSBURGH & MOUNT OLIVER INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
RIDGEWOOD INCLINE RAILWAY COMPANY LTD.
SEVENTEENTH STREET INCLINE
SOUTH PITTSBURGH AND SAW MILL RUN TURNPIKE ROAD COMPANY
SOUTH TWENTY-SECOND STREET INCLINE
SPRING HILL INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
ST. CLAIR INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
TENTH STREET INCLINED PLANE
TROY HILL INCLINED PLANE COMPANY
TROY HILL INCLINED PLANE AND BRIDGE COMPANY
TROY HILL INCLINE PLANE RAILWAY COMPANY
TWELFTH STREET INCLINE PLANE
WASHINGTON INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
WEST PITTSBURGH INCLINE PLANE COMPANY
ON THE BACK COVER
The key to Pittsburgh's early population growth and commercial expansion was its public transportation system. Beginning after the Great Fire of 1845 with the primitive omnibus lines and continuing through the next decades using the horse car, cable car and then harnessing the wonder of electricity, the city doubled its number of citizens and experienced an industrial boom that placed its output first of any American city. Pittsburgh was on its way to becoming the "Workshop of the World". Innovations on land travel were many, but the biggest technical advances in carrying the people and goods of the Iron City came on its steep hillsides. Here was the birthplace of the inclined plane. Pittsburgh's terrain was a natural for these hillside elevators and there were more built here than in any other city in the world. The period from 1850 to 1900 saw the greatest number of street railway lines and incline planes operating in the city and surrounding communities. Many survived into the 20th Century, many did not, most are largely forgotten. Contained in this book are the histories of many of these incline and street railway companies and the names, faces and backgrounds of the prominent Pittsburgh men whose vision conceived, financed, built, and operated them.
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