{"id":2137,"date":"2020-07-12T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2020-07-12T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T14:35:25","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/07\/12\/taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Photographer Jack Delano has boarded an Indiana Harbor Belt freight train caboose, catching brakeman Lee High taking a short break.  It&#8217;s a chilly day in January of 1943, and the caboose gives a place to warm up for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the end wall we see a flag stored above the door, and an adjacent rack stocked with a supply of fusees (flares to non-railroaders).  Also in view is a tool box, a cardboard box with some spare ankle-high boots, a couple jackets, and what appears to be a brakeman&#8217;s club next to the door.  And someone has pinned a photo of their pooch on the wall.  Imagine what else is in this cabin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Brakeman-High-on-a-Break.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Brakeman-High-on-a-Break.jpg\" alt=\"Brakeman Lee High on a Break\" class=\"wp-image-2136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Brakeman-High-on-a-Break.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Brakeman-High-on-a-Break-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Brakeman-High-on-a-Break-600x627.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Jack Delano has boarded an Indiana Harbor Belt freight train caboose, catching brakeman Lee High taking a short break. It&#8217;s a chilly day in January of 1943, and the caboose gives a place to warm up for a bit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/07\/12\/taking-a-break\/\">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-2137","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\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}