[PRCo] South Hills Jct Question

[Herb Brannon]

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
.http://mapq.st/1vOTLyW


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Are you possibly talking about the old trolley overhaul shop?   Brick
> building on the west side of the right of way?
>
>
> On May 21, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> >
> >
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