{"id":1992,"date":"2020-03-08T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2020-03-08T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T14:50:35","slug":"playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/08\/playing-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>. . . or perhaps more appropriately, <em>working<\/em> with fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re at the roundhouse of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in Blue Island, Illinois.  Jack Delano wandered into the blacksmith shop in the building one day in April of 1943.  There he captured this view of Blacksmith John Kelsch (pronounced as <em>Kelseh<\/em>) working at his forge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steam locomotives were an interesting machine in that so many of their components were hand fashioned.  When a replacement part was needed, the shop forces would literally make one.  And blacksmithing was an essential part of that operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith.jpg\" alt=\"John Kelsch, Blacksmith, CRI&amp;P RR\" class=\"wp-image-1991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Kelsch-Blacksmith-406x300.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . or perhaps more appropriately, working with fire. We&#8217;re at the roundhouse of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in Blue Island, Illinois. Jack Delano wandered into the blacksmith shop in the building one day in April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/08\/playing-with-fire\/\">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-1992","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\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}