{"id":1786,"date":"2019-08-18T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:20:21","slug":"icrr-caboose-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/18\/icrr-caboose-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"ICRR Caboose Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Continuing our tour of the Illinois Central facilities at the South Water Street yard and freight depot in Chicago, we&#8217;re at the caboose servicing area.  On the far track is a string of Illinois Central side door cabooses (one sans a cupola) waiting their next assignment.  But standing out at center is a visiting Chesapeake and Ohio crummy under the watchful eye of a group of workers relaxing near by.  The C&amp;O was leasing terminal facilities from the I.C. at the time, hence the explanation for it&#8217;s appearance here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by Jack Delano, April of 1943<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area.jpg\" alt=\"ICRR Caboose Service Area, Chicago\" class=\"wp-image-1785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area-600x442.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ICRR-Caboose-Service-Area-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our tour of the Illinois Central facilities at the South Water Street yard and freight depot in Chicago, we&#8217;re at the caboose servicing area. On the far track is a string of Illinois Central side door cabooses (one sans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/18\/icrr-caboose-facility\/\">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-1786","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\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}