{"id":2057,"date":"2020-04-19T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2020-04-19T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:35:38","slug":"painting-a-freight-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/04\/19\/painting-a-freight-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting a Freight Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve read through the label on a can of paint and one is always admonished to apply the coating in mild temperatures, generally above 60 degrees F or so.  Apparently the Chicago and North Western folks have different ideas on the subject, or perhaps a new and improved paint for their freight cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s December of 1942, and Jack Delano spied this fellow applying a fresh coat of paint to a car on the RIP track in the Proviso yard near Chicago.  And that has to be the longest extension I&#8217;ve ever seen for a paint sprayer!  I wonder how many days it will take before one can touch that car without sticking to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car.jpg\" alt=\"Painting a Freight Car\" class=\"wp-image-2056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Painting-a-Freight-Car-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve read through the label on a can of paint and one is always admonished to apply the coating in mild temperatures, generally above 60 degrees F or so. Apparently the Chicago and North Western folks have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/04\/19\/painting-a-freight-car\/\">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-2057","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\/2057","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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}