[PRCo] South Hills Jct Question

[Dwight Long]

Fred

I think he lives in Carrick.  If he takes the 47-Carrick via Tunnel car, he would turn off at S. Hills Jct. before that building would come into sight.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Thursday, 22 May, 2014 20:54
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] South Hills Jct Question
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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