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Lookout Mountain

  • Writer: Andrew J. Bramlett
    Andrew J. Bramlett
  • Oct 3, 2022
  • 1 min read

The first incline railway on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opened in 1887 and closed in 1899. A second railway opened in 1895, and still travels up the mountain today. This postcard shows the second railway in 1918.




Image: “Cable Incline up Lookout Mountain, Tenn.” by the Detroit Photographic Company (1918). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.

 
 
 

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