A series of pictures and factoids for Create's NaJoPoMo Challenge.

If you've watched The Guardian, you've seen this: the Duquesne Incline. It goes up and down Mount Warshington in Pittsburgh. The incline, or funicular, was built in 1877. It's still carrying commuter traffic. It beats driving up that mountain in the snow, believe me. Great view of the Monongahela, too,

The topography of Pittsburgh is pretty cool. Mountains surrounding a triangular downtown area where two rivers intersect to make a third.

I didn't grow up in Pittsburgh proper. Instead, we lived in the North Hills. But getting to go dahn-tahn, as they call it, was pretty special. Old buildings, trolleys – unusual in the US at that time – and boats. Oh, and the parking wharf, an iffy proposal if you didn't watch for the Mon rising… I remember a summer intern at the Pittsburgh Press who wrote her article about how she arrived one afternoon, just in time to see her car sink into the river.

Funny place, Pittsburgh.