The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway is a funicular located on the side of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opened in 1895 and nowadays operated by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the area's public transit agency.
Passengers are transported from St. Elmo's Station at the base, to Point Park at the mountain summit, which overlooks the city and the Tennessee River. The railway is approximately one mile (1.6 km) in length (single track except for a short two-track stretch at the midway point, allowing two cars to cross), and has a maximum grade of 72.7% - the billing as the world's steepest passenger railway is suspect, however: similar billing is made by the Katoomba Scenic Railway in NSW, Australia, and the Pilatusbahn in Switzerland.
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