{"id":1918,"date":"2019-12-22T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2019-12-22T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T17:11:02","slug":"a-meet-on-the-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/12\/22\/a-meet-on-the-santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meet on the Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March of 1943 Jack Delano hitched a ride on a west-bound freight of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on its journey to Kansas City, Kansas.  The train met an east-bound train while along it&#8217;s route between Fort Madison, Iowa and Marceline, Missouri.  The crew gives the photographer a friendly wave as their train passes by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This line apparently still sees heavy traffic, as a search on Google Maps shows the line between Fort Madison and Kansas City is still double tracked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATSF-Crew-and-Caboose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATSF-Crew-and-Caboose.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;SF Crew and Caboose\" class=\"wp-image-1917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATSF-Crew-and-Caboose.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATSF-Crew-and-Caboose-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATSF-Crew-and-Caboose-600x625.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 1943 Jack Delano hitched a ride on a west-bound freight of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on its journey to Kansas City, Kansas. The train met an east-bound train while along it&#8217;s route between Fort Madison, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/12\/22\/a-meet-on-the-santa-fe\/\">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-1918","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\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}