Just a guess here. Perhaps the reason the freight car was stationed
there was that it was used every day to deliver newspapers?

-- "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson@earthlink.net> wrote:
Oh, that freight car? That's where the Railways locked up fans caught taking 
photos without a permit. :-)

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // 
James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC@P-R-Co.com>
To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: [PRCo] SHJ__Mystery__Track


> Enclosed is another photo from Trolley Talk when 1000 series PCCs were
> assigned to South Hills in the latter 1930s  --  note the freight car
> sitting on the mystery track.       This  <-Tradition->  (freight car on
> Mystery Track)  continued into the early 1950s!
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1004-38-IB_SHY_19391028_RMWagner.jpg
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