{"id":2184,"date":"2020-08-16T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2020-08-16T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:07:28","slug":"loading-tomatoes-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/08\/16\/loading-tomatoes-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Loading Tomatoes (the Hard Way)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In July of 1940 Jack Delano was making his way through the northeast, documenting scenes along the way.  While near Westover, Maryland, he spied this worker loading a refrigerator car with tomatoes from the Long Brothers Packing Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that the cars are spotted on a team track, so the worker doesn&#8217;t have the benefit of a loading dock.  That means a lot of trips up that ramp during mid-summer!  The hatches over the ice bunkers are open on both cars, so I assume that these cars will simply be ventilated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"Loading Tomatoes\" class=\"wp-image-2176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes-600x443.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Loading-Tomatoes-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 1940 Jack Delano was making his way through the northeast, documenting scenes along the way. While near Westover, Maryland, he spied this worker loading a refrigerator car with tomatoes from the Long Brothers Packing Company. It appears &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/08\/16\/loading-tomatoes-the-hard-way\/\">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-2184","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\/2184","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=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}