{"id":1146,"date":"2018-05-08T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:06:25","slug":"steam-for-the-7th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/05\/08\/steam-for-the-7th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam for the 7th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 7th anniversary of this blog . . . my how time flies!<\/p>\n<p>As a little change of pace, I thought I&#8217;d post a few photos taken during some steam excursions that I was fortunate to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1970s the Southern Railway ran a series of steam powered excursion trains throughout its system.\u00a0 Steam locomotive No. 722, of a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, is shown here heading for New Orleans from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.\u00a0 Mr. Walter Dove, a long time employee of the Southern, is at the throttle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722.jpg\" alt=\"Southern Railway #722\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SouRy722-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 7th anniversary of this blog . . . my how time flies! As a little change of pace, I thought I&#8217;d post a few photos taken during some steam excursions that I was fortunate to participate in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/05\/08\/steam-for-the-7th-anniversary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}