{"id":2005,"date":"2020-03-22T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T15:51:31","slug":"proviso-yard-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/22\/proviso-yard-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Proviso Yard Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a dreary and frosty day in December of 1942, and Jack Delano has arranged to get an aerial view of the Chicago and North Western&#8217;s Proviso Yard.  The plumes of smoke and steam vapor provide a bit of brightness, providing an interesting contrast to the bleak surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Delano took quite a few photographs from his elevated perch, and this is perhaps my favorite.  But this is only a portion of his view that day as the original slide is badly damaged and I chose to crop out a sizeable chunk on the right, resulting in this composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in Melrose Park near Chicago, this yard is presently in use by the Union Pacific Railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;NW Proviso Hump Yard\" class=\"wp-image-2004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard-768x780.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CNW-Proviso-Hump-Yard-600x609.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a dreary and frosty day in December of 1942, and Jack Delano has arranged to get an aerial view of the Chicago and North Western&#8217;s Proviso Yard. The plumes of smoke and steam vapor provide a bit of brightness, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/22\/proviso-yard-overview\/\">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-2005","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\/2005","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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}