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Johnstown Incline – Antique Print

Johnstown Incline — historic image
Johnstown Incline. Historic image from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures Johnstown Incline in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Johnstown Incline

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Johnstown's inclined plane rises steeply up the face of Westmont hill above the Conemaugh valley, a grade so severe that it ranks among the steepest of its kind. The line was built in the early 1890s, in the years after the city's 1889 flood, to connect the valley's mills and downtown with the hillside neighborhoods. Its cable-hauled cars carried residents, workers and shoppers up the slope for generations, and the track and cars themselves remain the main thing to notice here, since they show how a railroad could be made to climb ground that a conventional line could never reach.

Original scan3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceJohnstownIncline

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