The Troy Hill Incline, also known as the Mount Troy Incline, was a funicular

Funicular

A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope; the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalance each other.-Operation:The basic principle of funicular...

 railway located in old Allegheny

Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Allegheny City was a Pennsylvania municipality located on the north side of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, across from downtown Pittsburgh. It was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907...

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

, which is now the North Side of the city of Pittsburgh. Built by Samuel Diescher

Samuel Diescher

Samuel Diescher, a prominent civil and mechanical engineer, was born in Budapest, educated at Karlsruhe Polytechnique and at the University of Zurich. Coming to the United States in 1866, he settled in Cincinnati, where he built his first inclined plane. He came to Pittsburgh and was associated...

 in 1887, the incline was one of only a few funiculars constructed on the north side of Pittsburgh. The incline's lower station was located across from the northern end of the second 30th Street Bridge

30th Street Bridge

The 30th Street Bridge, is a girder bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Troy Hill and Herrs Island . This is the fourth bridge that has stood on this site. A wooden 19th Century bridge was washed away during an 1882 flood...

, and ascended to the summit station in Troy Hill

Troy Hill

Troy Hill is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's North Side. It has a zip code of 15212, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 1 ....

. The summit station is still standing, and it is located at 1733 Lowrie Street in the Troy Hill neighborhood. The incline's length measured 370 ft., with a forty-seven percent gradient. The cost of construction for the incline was about $94,047.

Sources

• A Century of Inclines, The Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Incline.