{"id":2209,"date":"2020-09-13T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2020-09-13T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:28:42","slug":"after-the-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/09\/13\/after-the-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano hopped a ride on a Chicago and North Western freight train at Proviso Yard near Chicago, and made the round trip to Clinton, Iowa and return.  Back in late May I posted a few photos of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/05\/31\/cnw-tower-hm\/\" target=\"_blank\">tower &#8220;HM&#8221;<\/a> in Elmhurst, Illinois as they were passing by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their train had been routed into the &#8220;hole&#8221; (a passing track), waiting for a passenger train to go by.  It&#8217;s customary for the crew of the waiting train to do a &#8220;rolling inspection&#8221; of the other train as it passes by, with one crewman crossing to the far side of the track so both sides of the train get a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The varnish has rushed by and the rear-end brakeman is back aboard his caboose, signaling the front end crew that he&#8217;s ready to depart.  The brakeman will soon be back in his perch in the cupola, likely with a hot cup of java.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet.jpg\" alt=\"Pulling Out After a Meet\" class=\"wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet-600x573.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pulling-Out-After-a-Meet-314x300.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano hopped a ride on a Chicago and North Western freight train at Proviso Yard near Chicago, and made the round trip to Clinton, Iowa and return. Back in late May I posted a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/09\/13\/after-the-meet\/\">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-2209","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\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}