Mount Adams Incline   Save
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Description: Caption reads: "Mt. Adams Incline, Cincinnati, O." Sterling Glass is visible at the top of the Mount Adams, next to the power house for the incline. Mount Adams Incline, extending from Lock St. to Rookwood Pl. and Celestial St., was the more important of the two local inclines. The inclines comprised two stilted, cable-drawn platforms that raised wagons and pedestrians, and later the Zoo-Eden Streetcars and automobiles 268 feet from Lock Street to the hilltop on an inclined track 945 feet long. The understructure, over house tops and streets, is made of stout lumber and had a track gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches. The funicular railway, completed in 1875, was closed in 1948, and I-471 now runs through the location at the base of the hill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_028_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Funicular railroads; Inclined planes
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)