{"id":1241,"date":"2018-08-19T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2018-08-19T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:07:57","slug":"the-wsp-0-6-2t-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/08\/19\/the-wsp-0-6-2t-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The WSP 0-6-2T #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Westfield Sugar Plantation Railroad&#8217;s #1 was an 0-6-2T coal burning steamer.\u00a0 She was used during the fall sugar cane season on the Westfield plantation in Paincourtville, Louisiana.\u00a0 These images were captured by Rick Boutall on November 1, 1963 as she was chuffing around the fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2.jpg\" alt=\"WSP RR #1 0-6-2T Loco - 2\" width=\"800\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2-600x603.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-2-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Westfield plantation was owned by Dugas &amp; LeBlanc, Ltd.\u00a0 Their little steamer was built by Porter in 1897 as c\/n 1791, and she boasted 7&#8243;x14&#8243; cylinders, and 24&#8243; drivers.\u00a0 She ran on 30&#8243; gauge track, used link &amp; pin couplers and had no brakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1.jpg\" alt=\"WSP RR #1 0-6-2T Loco - 1\" width=\"800\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WSP-1-0-6-2T-1-600x607.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the brakeman riding on the footboard.\u00a0 Scenes like this were common among many of the sugar plantations in Louisiana many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Collection of Jack Shall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westfield Sugar Plantation Railroad&#8217;s #1 was an 0-6-2T coal burning steamer.\u00a0 She was used during the fall sugar cane season on the Westfield plantation in Paincourtville, Louisiana.\u00a0 These images were captured by Rick Boutall on November 1, 1963 as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/08\/19\/the-wsp-0-6-2t-1\/\">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-1241","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\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}