{"id":1704,"date":"2019-06-09T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2019-06-09T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:47:38","slug":"departing-chicago-on-the-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/06\/09\/departing-chicago-on-the-bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Departing Chicago on the B&#038;O"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train is seen departing Union Station in Chicago.  It will travel via the Alton Road to St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a cold wintry night in January of 1943, and evidence of snowfall coming through the roof ventilation openings is seen on the tracks and platforms.  Note the illuminated and raised platform between the tracks, the rest of the structure being rather dark and foreboding.<\/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\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-1024x946.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;O Passenger Train Departing\" class=\"wp-image-1703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-1024x946.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-768x710.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-600x554.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing-325x300.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BO-Passenger-Train-Departing.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train is seen departing Union Station in Chicago. It will travel via the Alton Road to St. Louis. It&#8217;s a cold wintry night in January of 1943, and evidence of snowfall coming through the roof &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/06\/09\/departing-chicago-on-the-bo\/\">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-1704","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\/1704","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=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}