{"id":1312,"date":"2018-11-04T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2018-11-04T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:49:10","slug":"best-friend-of-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/11\/04\/best-friend-of-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Friend of Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer of 1973 I attended the NMRA national convention in Atlanta, Georgia, aptly named <em>Peachtree &#8217;73.<\/em>\u00a0 It was a fine convention, and in addition to the usual fare, the convention hosted a double-headed steam excursion.<\/p>\n<p>But there was another steam-up that caught my attention as well.\u00a0 And here it is: a working replica of the Best Friend of Charleston locomotive, along with several coaches.\u00a0 It was interesting to see it ramble down the street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston.jpg\" alt=\"Best Friend of Charleston, Atlanta, Ga.\" width=\"800\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston-768x746.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston-600x583.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Best-Friend-of-Charleston-309x300.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original locomotive, built in 1830, was said to be the first U.S. built locomotive for actual railroad service.\u00a0 Unfortunately it suffered a boiler explosion six months after being placed in service.<\/p>\n<p>This replica is one of two that exist.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer of 1973 I attended the NMRA national convention in Atlanta, Georgia, aptly named Peachtree &#8217;73.\u00a0 It was a fine convention, and in addition to the usual fare, the convention hosted a double-headed steam excursion. But there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/11\/04\/best-friend-of-charleston\/\">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-1312","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\/1312","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=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}