{"id":1636,"date":"2019-03-31T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2019-03-31T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:17:58","slug":"watching-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/03\/31\/watching-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During his visit on Conductor Burton&#8217;s caboose in March of 1943, Jack Delano photographed the rear brakeman, Walter V. Dew, watching the train from the cupola.  We&#8217;re on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Westinghouse train line air pressure gauge is reading 74 pounds.  Note the modified King Edward cigar box on the cupola bulkhead above the gauge, containing what appears to be C&amp;NW timetables.  A couple more cigar boxes aside the cupola seats have been provided to hold various other paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Walter-Dew-Brakeman-ATSF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Walter-Dew-Brakeman-ATSF.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Dew, Brakeman, AT&amp;SF Railroad\" class=\"wp-image-1635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Walter-Dew-Brakeman-ATSF.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Walter-Dew-Brakeman-ATSF-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Walter-Dew-Brakeman-ATSF-600x624.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit on Conductor Burton&#8217;s caboose in March of 1943, Jack Delano photographed the rear brakeman, Walter V. Dew, watching the train from the cupola. We&#8217;re on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/03\/31\/watching-the-train\/\">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-1636","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\/1636","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=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}