{"id":1361,"date":"2018-12-30T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2019-01-20T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:56:44","slug":"thawing-the-air-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/30\/thawing-the-air-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Thawing the Air Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a frigid winter day in December of 1942 at the C&amp;NW&#8217;s Proviso Yard in Chicago.  Jack Delano spied these engine-men attempting to thaw the air pumps on their steamer.  Burning a bit of cotton waste against them hopefully will do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942.jpg\" alt=\"Thawing Air Pumps - C&amp;NW\" class=\"wp-image-1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942-600x438.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thawing-Air-Pumps-CNW-1942-411x300.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a frigid winter day in December of 1942 at the C&amp;NW&#8217;s Proviso Yard in Chicago. Jack Delano spied these engine-men attempting to thaw the air pumps on their steamer. Burning a bit of cotton waste against them hopefully will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/30\/thawing-the-air-pumps\/\">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-1361","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\/1361","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=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}