The charter for this railway entered the planning phase by January 1890, with a target filing date of February 8 of that year, and was originally to be called the Arlington Avenue Inclined Plane.

[2] The last day of service was December 3, 1960,[3] and it was demolished before the year ended.

During its operation, the incline ferried people and freight between the South Side and Knoxville.

On October 7, 1953 a boy, Alan Schiller, hanging from a car was killed.

[6] None of the fatalities occurred with paying passengers who had not jumped from cars.