Pittsburgh Rys 101

[Robert E. Rathke]

I haven't visited the Fenelon website since last Fall.  It's kind of
folksy, but informative. Last Fall they had a page on a maintenance
session at their incline, and it sounded like an old fashioned barn
raising.  

I'm also aware of Michel Azema's incline website "Funimag"; he's in
France.  I sent him one of my Pittsburgh incline photos, but it hasn't
been posted yet.  In the summer of 1960 I happened to be driving on
Carson Street just after one of the Ft. Duquesne Incline cars jumped the
track about 300 ft. from the lower station.  The car was tilted at a 30
degree angle, and I got a photo of the firemen climbing up the track to
rescue the riders.

Bob Rathke 7/5


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Charlesebrown at webtv.net (Charles
Brown) writes:
>Thanks, Robert, for the Iowa info.  I searched for their website and
>found it at:
>http://mall.mwci.net/fenplco
>
>Their website had some links which led me to a worldwide site that had 
>a
>huge links page.  In the USA section, it listed links to official
>websites of the Johnstown and Duquesne inclines.  It also had one that
>listed the locations of all of Pittsburgh's 15 inclines, as well as
>several Pittsburgh incline sites.  The above mentioned links page is 
>at:
>http://wwwusers.imaginet.fr/~mikeaz/funi03.htm
>
>I haven't gotten around to searching for websites with info on
>Pittsburgh Railways.  Anybody know of any good ones?
>
>Charlie
>
>Charlesebrown at webtv.net
>

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