{"id":1842,"date":"2019-10-20T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2019-10-20T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:55:01","slug":"preparing-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/10\/20\/preparing-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a day with heavy overcast, perhaps made more dramatic by this backlit scene on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Caribou, Maine.  The brakeman has lined the switch for the #403 so she can ease up to the water penstock to quench her thirst.  Today&#8217;s train has but a single passenger car, but it still displays the required markers on it&#8217;s rear.  The train will next move down to the Caribou depot for boarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locomotive #403 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation built by ALCO&#8217;s Schenectady Works in November of 1937, hence was still quite new when Jack Delano recorded this image in October of 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari.jpg\" alt=\"BAR 2-8-0 #403, Terminal at Caribou, Maine\" class=\"wp-image-1841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari-600x445.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-403-at-Cari-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a day with heavy overcast, perhaps made more dramatic by this backlit scene on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Caribou, Maine. The brakeman has lined the switch for the #403 so she can ease up to the water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/10\/20\/preparing-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-1842","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\/1842","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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}