This is the Monongahela Incline, one of Pittsburgh's two remaining inclines (known elsewhere as funiculars.) It's actually not the nicer of the two. The nicer one is the Duquesne Incline. Nicer is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but the Duquesne Incline car seats passengers on a single level, which means each of them has an incredible view (the view from Mt. Washington, where both the inclines reach their upper terminus, was voted the second best view in the USA by USA Weekend magazine and the incline itself was voted the third romantic place by Microsoft Network.) However, the Monogahela Incline is only a hundred feet or so from the house where I imagine Flip lives, so that's the one she takes on that last fateful trip to the top of Mt. Washington in Seducing Mr. Darcy.
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