Monongahela Incline

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This funicular in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania used to offer coal and steel workers a respite from the smog of industry. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monongahela-incline

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0:00.0	Hello, Sarah Kaplan. How are you?
0:02.5	I'm Dylan. I'm good. How are you?
0:04.9	I'm good. Well, I guess you could introduce yourself.
0:07.6	Who are you and what do you do on the show?
0:11.0	I'm an intern for Atlas Obscura,
0:13.7	so I've been working on the podcast for a few months,
0:15.8	working on a handful of different stories.
0:18.1	I'm excited because this is our first conversation.
0:21.2	Ellen, you're going to tell me a story about the city
0:24.8	that you currently live in, which is...
0:28.4	I'm in Pittsburgh.
0:29.7	Yeah, I love Pittsburgh.
0:33.2	Okay, so Pittsburgh's known for a few things.
0:35.2	It's known for being obviously like an industrial city
0:38.5	that sort of went through the like boom and bust.
0:41.6	And it's known for the Steelers,
0:44.8	named after that industry.
0:46.2	And it's known, of course, for its hills.
0:50.1	How are you fairing moving around up and down
0:54.3	the Pittsburgh landscape?
0:55.9	There are so, so, so many hills in Pittsburgh.
0:59.4	I had no idea coming here how many hills there are
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