Duquesne Incline




(TOP) The Duquesne Incline moves up the tracks above the city of Pittsburgh on Thursday evening, July 12, 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA. The incline, a popular tourist destination, has been in operation since May 1877 and has hauled many people from Mt. Washington, overlooking the city of Pittsburgh to the banks of the Monongahela River below and the South Side of Pittsburgh.
(MIDDLE) Devin Zerjav, 5, of Plum, PA., watches out the window of the West car of the Duquesne Incline on Sunday evening, July 15, 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA. The incline, a popular tourist destination, has been in operation since May 1877 and has hauled many people from Mt. Washington, overlooking the city of Pittsburgh to the banks of the Monongahela River below and the South Side of Pittsburgh. (BOTTOM) Nina Midgley, 18, of Crafton sits in the Souvenir stand at the Duquesne Incline on Thursday evening, July 12, 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA. The incline, a popular tourist destination, has been in operation since May 1877 and has hauled many people from Mt. Washington, overlooking the city of Pittsburgh to the banks of the Monongahela River below and the South Side of Pittsburgh.

2 comments:

Wynne July 16, 2007 at 10:25 AM  

You're making me homesick.

Michael Henninger July 17, 2007 at 5:08 PM  

I dig the kid looking out the window. It's got good light. The other stuff, well, I've seen 14 stories on the incline....

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Justin Merriman, an award-winning photojournalist with the Tribune-Review, has spent more than a decade traveling the world to cover politics, wars, natural disasters and civil unrest. His work has appeared in leading national and international publications and he has received numerous top journalism awards. After covering the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – including the crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville – Merriman committed to chronicling the U.S. military and its War on Terror. He has followed this story across the US and into the war zones of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. He also has covered life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 2002, India’s efforts to eradicate polio, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and most recently, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba in 2012. In 2011, Merriman was honored with the top photography award from the Military Reporters and Editors Assoc. for his work in Iraq & Haiti. Merriman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in 2000 with a degree in English Writing. In 2009, the university awarded him its prestigious Alumnus of Distinction award. Merriman lives in Oakmont with his fiancĂ©, Stephanie Strasburg.

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