{"id":1291,"date":"2018-10-14T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2018-10-14T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T19:07:48","slug":"southern-pacific-745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/10\/14\/southern-pacific-745\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Pacific #745"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s February of 2007, and the Southern Pacific #745 is passing through City Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has just embarked on the return leg of her shake down run following fairly extensive repairs. She is headed for New Orleans, her home terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The locomotive had been restored some years earlier by the Louisiana Steam Train Association in New Orleans. The 745 is a class Mk-5 Mikado (2-8-2), and was built in the Espee&#8217;s shop in Algiers, La. back in 1921. She operated on the Texas and New Orleans subsidiary of the Southern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1.jpg\" alt=\"S.P. (TN&amp;O) Loco #745\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/SP745-at-City-Park1-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s February of 2007, and the Southern Pacific #745 is passing through City Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has just embarked on the return leg of her shake down run following fairly extensive repairs. She is headed for New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/10\/14\/southern-pacific-745\/\">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-1291","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\/1291","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=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}