- O'Neil and Company Incline
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O'Neil and Company Incline Locale West Elizabeth, PA Headquarters West Elizabeth, PA The O'Neil and Company Incline was a nineteenth century incline, used to transport coal from a mine mouth just west of West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania to a tipple on pool 1 of the Monongahela River.[1] It crossed the entire width of the Borrough of West Elizabeth, passing over the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway.[2]
References
- ^ "1876 Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and Adjoining Boroughs: Plate 26". http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=76v01p26&levels=5&originx=1674&originy=1279&lastlevel=1&fullheight=4698&fullwidth=3788&level=1&size=1&tnail.x=96&tnail.y=24.
- ^ Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1876-77. V. Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics.; Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs.. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Lane S. Hart. 1878. p. 238. http://books.google.com/books?id=FKjNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&dq=Walton++Incline+%22West+Elizabeth%22&source=bl&ots=Dd667XSJn6&sig=PL60CDnx4N-D1B1yJaNyjoJLsOo&hl=en&ei=T5kFSp7CHoTyMsTBgaMD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1.
Categories:- History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Defunct funicular railways in the United States
- Railway inclines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stubs
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