<div dir="ltr">No. All of the older PRCo buildings have been torn down. All the buildings in the SHJct complex now date from the 1970s to the 1980s. This is definitely a newer structure. Click the attached link for an overhead view. It's the building with what looks like four trucks sitting at the south end. Unfortunately the trackwork cannot be seen<br>
.<a href="http://mapq.st/1vOTLyW">http://mapq.st/1vOTLyW</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Are you possibly talking about the old trolley overhaul shop? Brick building on the west side of the right of way?<br>
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On May 21, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:<br>
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> While riding the trolley home from work (yes, I'm working again) Monday I<br>
> noticed a newer building in the South Hills Jct complex with streetcar<br>
> rails coming out of one end but not going anywhere.<br>
><br>
> I was able to check it out further yesterday (Tuesday) when going home from<br>
> work. The building number is "5" and it is located about halfway between<br>
> the South Hills Jct station and the Palm Garden station. The building has<br>
> five or six bays, with overhead doors, which extend from the north end to<br>
> the south end. The furthest bay from the current trolley tracks has a set<br>
> of rails coming out of the south end then running along the retaining wall<br>
> (Mt Washington is above this wall) then turning toward the existing trolley<br>
> tracks. Just before reaching the trolley right-of-way there is a<br>
> "Y-switch". The track splits and starts curving both north and south then<br>
> ends.<br>
><br>
> There is no way the track could connect to the current right-of-way because<br>
> of a pronounced difference in elevation between the right-of-way and this<br>
> track. Building 5 has, as I said, several bays. There are no other bays<br>
> with tracks coming in and out, however. Currently Building 5 has a lot of<br>
> PAT heavy duty service trucks parked at the north end. These are dump<br>
> trucks, salt spreaders, snow plows, etc.<br>
><br>
> The question is does anyone know what Building 5 was used for in the past<br>
> and why is there a track coming out of one of the bays? Perhaps, before the<br>
> realignment of the trolley right-of-way in that area (for the rebuilding<br>
> and relocation of the tracks above Saw Mill Run Blvd) was the building used<br>
> for storage of maybe the line car or other work cars and was it connected<br>
> to the right-of-way prior to the new elevation of said right-of-way?<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Herb Brannon<br>
><br>
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