{"id":1941,"date":"2020-01-12T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:16:58","slug":"spiffing-up-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/01\/12\/spiffing-up-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiffing Up the Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s March of 1943, and we&#8217;re in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roundhouse located in the Argentine Yard in Kansas.  Jack Delano photographed a worker washing down the nose of one of the road&#8217;s diesel locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a four unit set of EMD model FT locomotives, each producing 1,350 horsepower.  The set had an &#8220;A&#8221; unit (a unit with a cab) on each end, and a pair of &#8220;B&#8221; units (without cabs) in the center.  The road considered this a single 5,400 horsepower locomotive.  While many FT locomotives were sold as a pair of semi-permanently units, the Santa Fe ordered theirs with conventional couplers at the end of each unit, thereby giving them more flexibility  in their arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ATSF-103-Argentine-Kansas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ATSF-103-Argentine-Kansas.jpg\" alt=\"ATSF FT #103, Argentine, Kansas\" class=\"wp-image-1940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ATSF-103-Argentine-Kansas.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ATSF-103-Argentine-Kansas-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March of 1943, and we&#8217;re in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roundhouse located in the Argentine Yard in Kansas. Jack Delano photographed a worker washing down the nose of one of the road&#8217;s diesel locomotives. This is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/01\/12\/spiffing-up-the-power\/\">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-1941","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\/1941","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=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}