{"id":1849,"date":"2019-10-27T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2019-10-27T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:24:54","slug":"oiling-up-the-403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/10\/27\/oiling-up-the-403\/","title":{"rendered":"Oiling Up the #403"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s an overcast day in October of 1940, and we&#8217;re paused in the yard near the Bangor and Aroostook freight house in Caribou, Maine.  Jack Delano documented the engineer as he was oiling around his locomotive prior to it&#8217;s run.  The locomotive wasn&#8217;t identified in this photograph, but it appears to be the #403 seen from a different vantage point than the view in this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"prior post (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/10\/20\/preparing-the-train\/\" target=\"_blank\">prior post<\/a>.  Note the mix of steel and wooden cars in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou.jpg\" alt=\"Oiling Up BAR #403\" class=\"wp-image-1848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BAR-Locomotive-Paused-Caribou-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an overcast day in October of 1940, and we&#8217;re paused in the yard near the Bangor and Aroostook freight house in Caribou, Maine. Jack Delano documented the engineer as he was oiling around his locomotive prior to it&#8217;s run. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/10\/27\/oiling-up-the-403\/\">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-1849","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\/1849","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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}