Fort Pitt Incline

{{Short description|Former funicular in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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| locale = Pittsburgh, PA

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| end = Bluff Street

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| open = 1882

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The Fort Pitt Incline was a {{RailGauge|10ft}}[http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccpa.html Cable Car Lines in Pennsylvania] gauge funicular railroad in the Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Opened in 1882, the incline ran from 2nd Avenue to Bluff Street, a distance of {{convert|350|ft|0}}, and a vertical distance of {{convert|135|ft|0}}.{{cite news|title=Brevities|newspaper=Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette|date=October 23, 1882|page=4|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YNVaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5mYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2836%2C411415 }}{{cite journal|last=Diescher|first=Samuel|title=American Inclined Plane Railways|journal=Cassier's Magazine|volume=12|issue=2|date=June 1897|page=89|url=https://archive.org/stream/cassiersma121897newy#page/89/mode/1up }} The designer was Samuel Diescher.

The incline was abandoned on November 7, 1900,{{cite news|title=Tramway Tied Up|newspaper=Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette|date=November 10, 1900|page=8|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6npRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c2cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5165%2C77477 }} and afterward sat idle for about three years before fire destroyed it.{{cite news|title=Car's Last Trip at Terrific Speed Down the Plane|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Gazette|date=July 29, 1903|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5629468/|via=Newspapers.com}} {{free access}}

Marking the former path of the incline are public steps which ascend from the south portal of the Armstrong Tunnel (at the South Tenth Street Bridge) to the Boulevard of the Allies next to the Duquesne University campus.