<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>While riding the trolley home from work (yes, I'm working again) Monday I noticed a newer building in the South Hills Jct complex with streetcar rails coming out of one end but not going anywhere.<br>
<br></div>I was able to check it out further yesterday (Tuesday) when going home from work. The building number is "5" and it is located about halfway between the South Hills Jct station and the Palm Garden station. The building has five or six bays, with overhead doors, which extend from the north end to the south end. The furthest bay from the current trolley tracks has a set of rails coming out of the south end then running along the retaining wall (Mt Washington is above this wall) then turning toward the existing trolley tracks. Just before reaching the trolley right-of-way there is a "Y-switch". The track splits and starts curving both north and south then ends.<br>
<br></div>There is no way the track could connect to the current right-of-way because of a pronounced difference in elevation between the right-of-way and this track. Building 5 has, as I said, several bays. There are no other bays with tracks coming in and out, however. Currently Building 5 has a lot of PAT heavy duty service trucks parked at the north end. These are dump trucks, salt spreaders, snow plows, etc. <br>
<br></div><div>The question is does anyone know what Building 5 was used for in the past and why is there a track coming out of one of the bays? Perhaps, before the realignment of the trolley right-of-way in that area (for the rebuilding and relocation of the tracks above Saw Mill Run Blvd) was the building used for storage of maybe the line car or other work cars and was it connected to the right-of-way prior to the new elevation of said right-of-way?<br>
</div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Herb Brannon<b><font color="#888888"><div>In Pittsburgh............<br></div><div>.................A City And<br>.........A State of Mind</div></font></b></div>
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