{"id":1225,"date":"2018-07-29T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2018-07-29T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T15:09:38","slug":"sluggin-up-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/07\/29\/sluggin-up-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggin&#8217; Up the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the 1980s the IC Industries spun off their railroad, the Illinois Central Gulf.\u00a0 The railroad decided to take back it&#8217;s original name and once again became the Illinois Central Railroad.\u00a0 The orange and white locomotives were quickly repainted back into a simplified version of the original black with white striping, but sans the old green diamond herald.<\/p>\n<p>This scene captures a four unit train struggling up the grade from the east bank of the Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi.\u00a0 A mix of a GP38-2 and GP10\/11 Paducah rebuilds, all in run 8, were putting on an impressive show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only the mid 90s, but the units are already showing the results of hastily applied paint, with signs of orange and white becoming visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss.jpg\" alt=\"ICRR at Mississippi River, Natchez, Miss.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IC-at-Miss-River-Natchez-Miss-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the 1980s the IC Industries spun off their railroad, the Illinois Central Gulf.\u00a0 The railroad decided to take back it&#8217;s original name and once again became the Illinois Central Railroad.\u00a0 The orange and white locomotives were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/07\/29\/sluggin-up-the-hill\/\">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-1225","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\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}