{"id":1354,"date":"2018-12-22T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2018-12-22T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T20:33:19","slug":"new-meets-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/22\/new-meets-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"New Meets the Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those new newfangled diesels meets a steam locomotive at the Chicago Union Station. The time is January of 1943, and that modernistic train is the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy&#8217;s <em>Denver Zephyr.<\/em>\u00a0 This train ran between Chicago and Denver, with service commencing in 1936,\u00a0 and running until 1973.\u00a0 The route was 1,034 miles and the train generally covered the distance in 16 ~ 16-1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jack Delano<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag.jpg\" alt=\"Steam and diesel engine at the Union Station, Chicago, Ill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Denver-Zephyr-at-Chicag-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those new newfangled diesels meets a steam locomotive at the Chicago Union Station. The time is January of 1943, and that modernistic train is the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy&#8217;s Denver Zephyr.\u00a0 This train ran between Chicago and Denver, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/22\/new-meets-the-old\/\">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-1354","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\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}