The 2005 SPV Map labels Madison Hill as 6% and the steepest incline in the USA. I wonder what the incline of the Pikes Peak Railroad is.
Michael Harrison posted seven photos with the comment: "First time going to the Madison incline today. Pictures don't do justice on how steep it is! Its amazing how any steam locomotive could make it up here!"
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Machael's post 1953 Madison West and 1956 Clifty Falls Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
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| John Stigall commented on Michael's post Way back when. |
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| Randy Early posted Madison Indiana abandoned railway. The Madison Incline. Kenneth Bird: It once was a rack & pinion railway but they could not keep it maintained so they had a special locomotive built for .There is a good video YoubTube About it. Charles Booker: Definitely a paleontologist area. It's full of fossils. I found a few dozen trilobites in a short walk back in the 80's Tim Shanahan shared Doug Nelson The track there is owned by the Madison railroad and they have a good little video about it on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06F63Fy4lgU |
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| Rick Morwick posted Along the frozen Madison Incline. Christopher Lewis: This is the steepest line haul line in standard gauge in the US at 5.89% but however there is a section of former Southern rail line operated by GSMR in Topton NC ( Red Marble Grade ) that 7.0% along with Saluda at 4.7% is the steepest main line even know sections of it hits the 6.2 mark but the over all steepest in the US is Cass railroad with a 11.1%. Joe Dockrill shared |
Two comments by Joe on his share:
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| This is the engine that was built of the incline. It is at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis. |
In Sept 2020, I got hit with a Double Doomsday. Both Facebook and Google changed their software. I said "changed" instead of "updated" because the new software is not better. In fact, Google's Blogger software is far worse except for a search function that works. For example, it has three bugs concerning photos and their captions. So I'm no longer copying photos and interesting comments from Facebook. I'm just saving the link. Unfortunately, some of the links are to private groups.
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| Rails Around Indiana posted on Oct 5, 2021 Also crossing the B&O at North Vernon was the PRR’s Madison branch, the predecessor of which was Indiana’s first railroad, the Madison & Indianapolis. The line included a 5.6% grade from North Vernon down to the Ohio River. The PRR purchased two SD7s specifically geared to handle this grade. Both are seen here at Madison in July 1970, working for Penn Central. (William Danforth, photo; Billy Danforth, collection) |
The Reuben Wells is a steam locomotive in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indiana. Beginning in 1868, it operated for 30 years in Madison, Indiana, pushing train cars up the steepest "standard-gauge main-track grade" in the United States.
Builder: JM&I shops, Jeffersonville, IN
Designer: Reuben Wells Length: 35 ft (10.67 m)
Several people standing in a cut again, but with a history
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