{"id":1186,"date":"2018-06-17T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2018-06-17T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:08:02","slug":"ln-railroads-gentilly-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/06\/17\/ln-railroads-gentilly-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#038;N Railroad&#8217;s Gentilly Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll shift gears again.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a view taken from roughly the center of the L&amp;N Railroad&#8217;s Gentilly yard in New Orleans, Louisiana back in the early 1960s.\u00a0 My dad took me here several times to do a little railfanning.\u00a0 In those days the rail crews didn&#8217;t seem to mind that you were in the middle of their yard as long as you stayed put in a safe space.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the right you can catch a glimpse of the locomotive servicing area.\u00a0 The arch on the turntable is visible, and just a tad of the brick roundhouse can be seen at the edge of the image.\u00a0 The top of the sand tower is visible just above the blue boxcar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"L&amp;N Gentilly Yard - Early 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LN-Gentilly-Yard-Early-1960s-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll shift gears again.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a view taken from roughly the center of the L&amp;N Railroad&#8217;s Gentilly yard in New Orleans, Louisiana back in the early 1960s.\u00a0 My dad took me here several times to do a little railfanning.\u00a0 In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/06\/17\/ln-railroads-gentilly-yard\/\">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-1186","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\/1186","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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}