[PRCo] South Hills Jct Question

[Dwight Long]

Herb

Ha! 

But you did say you took the trolley home from work. I thought you lived in Carrick now.  So how do you take the trolley home from work if there is no 47 (nor 53, nor 77/54?)

Dwight

From: Herb Brannon 
Sent: Friday, 23 May, 2014 07:20
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] South Hills Jct Question
Good luck getting on a 47 trolley these days.


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net>wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> >
> > *In Pittsburgh.............................A City And.........A State of
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