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  • The Mill Mountain Incline was a 0.37 mi (0.60 km) funicular, or inclined plane, located on Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia, that operated between 1910–1929...
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  • lines to significant multi-section mountain railways. A funicular railway is distinguished from the similar incline elevator in that it has two vehicles...
    67 KB (5,228 words) - 13:21, 26 August 2024
  • 1940s, Mill Mountain is the location of both the Mill Mountain Star and the Mill Mountain Zoo and the former site of the Mill Mountain Incline. Miller...
    43 KB (3,619 words) - 09:09, 27 May 2022
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    placed on the incline railway where it was taken up 1,400 feet (430 m) and then dropped by a gravity flume down the western side of mountain to a 3,000 feet...
    18 KB (1,557 words) - 22:54, 15 July 2024
  • Hampton Roads Traction Company Lynchburg Traction and Light Company Mill Mountain Incline Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railway Newport News and...
    32 KB (343 words) - 19:54, 29 June 2024
  • introduces a new Continental service, Southampton-Havre. August 10 – The Mill Mountain Incline funicular in Roanoke, Virginia, opens for service. August 22 – The...
    11 KB (1,150 words) - 07:42, 3 December 2023
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    coal mine but was extended through from the Mount Washington Coal Incline to Saw Mill Run in 1861. This was followed by the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel...
    7 KB (880 words) - 12:32, 14 December 2022
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    balance inclines to connect quarry galleries and underground chambers with the mills where slate was processed. Examples of substantial inclines were found...
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    operation in the Sierra Nevada. The company built the steepest logging incline ever, a 3,100 feet (940 m) route that tied the high-country timber tracts...
    23 KB (2,571 words) - 08:43, 1 April 2024
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    slate from the lower levels to the mill. A car engine was subsequently used to power this incline. The main incline was also problematical, as the boiler...
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  • Cwmorthin Tramway (category Railway inclines in Wales)
    Cwmorthin Quarry mill and its internal incline which rose from floor 1 to floor 8. In 1874, it was extended, rising up through a third incline to the Cwmorthin...
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    Beckhole Incline was a steep, rope-worked gradient on the railway line between Whitby and Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Opened...
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    known as the Mill Mountain Star, is the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star. It was constructed at the top of Mill Mountain in Roanoke...
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  • of 9 km to the summit. The incline is comparable to the popular Grouse Grind up Grouse Mountain. To access the Cedars Mill and Lynn Headwaters Trail Loop...
    13 KB (1,605 words) - 16:53, 19 July 2024
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    The Castle Shannon Incline was a funicular railroad in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was originally part of the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad...
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  • commencement at Eagle Mountain High School, followed by closing of both the mine and mill a few months later. The Eagle Mountain Railroad saw a reduction...
    33 KB (5,252 words) - 23:42, 26 July 2024
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    Sierra Nevada (/siˌɛrə nɪˈvædə, -ˈvɑːd-/ see-ERR-ə nih-VA(H)D-ə) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California...
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    Water from reservoirs in the Snowdonia Mountains would provide the hydro-electricity needed to run the mill. In 1907 aluminium reduction ("aluminium...
    21 KB (2,383 words) - 16:00, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fron-Boeth and Pant Mawr quarries
    a small mill, and constructed an incline to transport the quarried rock to it. The next big advance took place in 1863, when a second incline was built...
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    Forest Falls, California (category San Bernardino Mountains)
    rising mountain range, erosion rates are extremely high and have been estimated to average as great as 1,560 millimetres (61 in) per 1,000 years in Mill Creek...
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