Incline Plane, 985 Ft. High – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Incline Plane, 985 Ft. High. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Incline Plane, 985 Ft. High
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The title gives the height of this incline plane as 985 feet, a considerable climb for a railway that had to be hauled up a steep slope rather than driven up by a locomotive. Cable-worked inclines like this one were a common answer in the late 1800s to the problem of moving passengers and freight over hills and mountainsides, where grades were too steep for ordinary trains. Pairs of cars, linked by cable over a drum at the top, counterbalanced each other on the track, so the weight of a descending car helped lift the one going up. The view is worth studying for its steep track, the cable and machinery at the summit, and the sheer effort of building a line up such a grade.
| Original scan | 1,000 × 1,601 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Johnstown Inxcline |
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