[PRCo] Re: IRON BRIDGE CARHOUSE

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Line cars 505 and 506 look like express cars because they were patterned
after them.  They were, however, not recycled express cars.   John
Swindler mentioned a fantrip where everybody walked up the weed grown
right-of-way to Iron Bridge car house while their car was left at the
bottom of the hill.  This may have been the trip when the fans got
inside of the barn ... ca. 1951.  I've seen several interior pictures. 
They could have only been made by people who knew what was scheduled and
carried a tripod with them in anticipation of this event. Remember, most
of these guys were using 616 folding cameras with lenses no faster than
f 4.5 (and many with f 5.6 or 6.3 lenses) and the fastest black and
white film out there was Super XX at ASA 100.  Oh, you're in 35mm? 
Well, the typical 35mm camera had an f 2.8 or f 3.5 lens and Kodachrome
was rated at ASA 10 (1/50th at f 8 in bright sunlight).  Kodachrome
didn't work well for action pictures  (1/250th at 4.5 on a sunny day and
impossibly on a gray day, and it sure wasn't going to work in a dark
building. The two I knew who had such pictures were Bob Brown and Harry
Bartley.  Bob routinely ran the trips for the club.  

Vincent Seyfried of one of the many villages on Long Island (Lunguylund)
has a picture of 701 or 702 sitting outside the Connellsville shop late
in 1951.  It had been brought down for scrapping. Of course there are a
lot of pictures of other two-man 700s out there.  McCarter, out in Camp
Verde AZ, who advertises to sell prints even has some.  

ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> 
> Thanks Fred for enlightening us about this place . John Swindler
> mentioned a pix might be in the PTM / PRMA orange covered book on West
> Penn . I have one that was printed in 1973 and it does not have any pix
> of IB carhouse unfortunately . It does have views inside Connellville CH
> of the line car # 506 which was constructed [I think from an express
> car.]  and open cars as well  inside it.