Whirlpool Rapids Incline

Whirlpool Rapids Incline

The Whirlpool Rapids Incline was a funicular railways situated on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls near the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge. The incline railway was built near the Leander Colt Incline in 1876. It was damanged by a fire in 1934 and replaced with an elevator ride called Great Gorge Trip, which was in turn renamed the Great Gorge Adventure in 1989.cite web | url = http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/niagara-falls-on.html | title = Transit History of Niagara Falls, Ontario | publisher = David A. Wyatt | accessdate = March 24 | accessyear = 2007]

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* Incline railways at Niagara Falls

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