{"id":1661,"date":"2019-04-28T15:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:25:10","slug":"repairs-to-cnw-2808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/04\/28\/repairs-to-cnw-2808\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairs to C&#038;NW #2808"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December of 1942 Chicago and North Western 2-8-4 steam locomotive #2808 was found in the shops undergoing repairs.  The Berkshire was of the class J-4, and was built by Brooks in August of 1927.  She was scrapped in 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railroads employed a huge force of shop workers to keep the iron horses in running order.  When a locomotive entered the shop, it became a beehive of activity to repair and adjust the locomotive so it could be placed back in service as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by Jack Delano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNW-Loco-2808-Under-Repair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNW-Loco-2808-Under-Repair.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;NW Locomotive #2808 Under Repair\" class=\"wp-image-1660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNW-Loco-2808-Under-Repair.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNW-Loco-2808-Under-Repair-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNW-Loco-2808-Under-Repair-600x629.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December of 1942 Chicago and North Western 2-8-4 steam locomotive #2808 was found in the shops undergoing repairs. The Berkshire was of the class J-4, and was built by Brooks in August of 1927. She was scrapped in 1950. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/04\/28\/repairs-to-cnw-2808\/\">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-1661","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\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}