PHOTOVALET (tm)
Enter search term

Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, Chattanooga, Tennessee; by PHOTOVAULT®

This page contains samples from our picture files on Lookout Mountain Incline Railway. These photographs are available for licensing in any media. For Pricing, General Guidelines, and Delivery information click here. You may contact us thru email or by phone for more information on the use of these images, and any others in our files not shown here. You may also use our search engine PHOTOVALET(tm) to find other images not found on this page. Please do not ask us for free use of these images. Our many Passenger Rail Transportation images can be linked to as follows:

Passenger Rail; Volume 1, Passenger Rail; Volume 2, Passenger Rail; Volume 3, Passenger Rail; Volume 4

Freight Trains; Volume 1, Freight Trains; Volume 2, Freight Trains; Volume 3, Freight Trains; Volume 4, Freight Trains; Volume 5

See also: TRANSPORTATION, VEHICLES, Cable Cars, Buses, Light Rail Transit, Heavy Rail Transit, Rail Accidents, Trams, Classic Cars, Racing, Tunnels, Carts, Road Signs, Limousines, RV's & Campers, Cranmore Mountain Funicular, Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, Mount Washington Cog Railway, Pikes Peak Cog Railway, Royal Gorge Incline
....................
The Incline Railway opened on November 16, 1895, and was the second of two inclines constructed on Lookout Mountain; the first was the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain Railway, which operated from 1886 to 1898. The railway is now operated by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the area's public transit agency.

This steep Railway is an inclined rail situated in Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga. The ride begins at St. Elmo's Station at the base, to Point Park at the mountain top, which has great views of Chatanooga and the Tennessee River. The railway is approximately 1.6 km in length (single track except for a short two-track stretch at the midway point, allowing operation of two cars at one time), and has a maximum grade of 72.7%. It is billed as the world's steepest passenger railway.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location: Off U.S. 11 Chattanooga, Tennessee
Coordinates: 35°0¢28<N 85°20¢8<W? / ?35.00778, -85.33556
Built: 1895
Architect: Guild,Josephus Conn
Added to NRHP: April 26, 1973
NRHP Reference#: 73001774

Back to Category listings.

707-775-2596

All images represented and created and displayed on these pages by PHOTOVAULT® are protected by US Copyright Law and the Berne Convention. No use, reuse, copying or reproduction is allowed without PHOTOVAULT'S specific agreement and permission, not even on the internet. Please respect the usage of these images.