{"id":1797,"date":"2019-09-01T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2019-09-01T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T16:00:19","slug":"coaling-up-a-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/09\/01\/coaling-up-a-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaling Up a &#8220;4000&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December of 1942 Jack Delano spent some time down at the Chicago and North Western&#8217;s coaling tower in Chicago, Illinois.  While there, he captured this image of one of the road&#8217;s class E-4 streamlined 4-6-4 &#8220;Hudson&#8221; locomotives.  These steamers, numbered 4001-4009, were ordered from Alco in 1937 to power the C&amp;NW&#8217;s famous &#8220;400&#8221; express passenger trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is that management decided, even before delivery, that using steam power for their premier trains wasn&#8217;t the direction to head.  They instead placed an order for diesel-electric locomotives with EMD.  Thus the nine E-4s were used to power other trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These modern locomotives lived a rather short life, with all retired by 1956.  All were eventually scrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water-774x1024.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;NW E-4 Class Loco Coaling Up\" class=\"wp-image-1796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CNW-400-Taking-Coal-and-Water-600x794.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December of 1942 Jack Delano spent some time down at the Chicago and North Western&#8217;s coaling tower in Chicago, Illinois. While there, he captured this image of one of the road&#8217;s class E-4 streamlined 4-6-4 &#8220;Hudson&#8221; locomotives. These steamers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/09\/01\/coaling-up-a-4000\/\">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-1797","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\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}