the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Dubbed the "World's Steepest Vehicular Inclined Plane", it is long, and ascends from the city valley to Westmont hilltop at a 70.9 percent grade. The São Paulo Railway in Brazil employed a series of five inclines to connect the port city of Santos to Rio Grande da Serra, rising in . Image gallery See also Blondin (quarry equipment) Cable car (railway) Cable ferry Cable Liner Funicular Grade (slope) Incline elevator Rack railways Reaction ferry Ruling gradient San Francisco cable car system Steep grade railway References Industrial railways Rail technologies Railways by type