{"id":2357,"date":"2021-01-31T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2021-01-31T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:35:10","slug":"cnw-2808-in-the-backshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/01\/31\/cnw-2808-in-the-backshop\/","title":{"rendered":"C&#038;NW #2808 in the Backshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jack Delano was visiting the C&amp;NW&#8217;s 40th Street shops in December of 1942.  There he recorded this view of steam locomotive #2808 undergoing heavy repairs. The 2-8-4 Berkshire was of the class J-4, and was built by Brooks (Alco) in August of 1927. She was scrapped in 1950.  It looks like they&#8217;ve installed a new air pump (at left above the pony truck).  It will eventually be tucked behind a stair leading up to the walkway along the boiler.  I also assume that a fresh coat of graphite will be applied to the smokebox, and a bit of touch-up done to piping and other appurtenances that have been worked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The locomotive looked familiar to me, and after investigation I realized that it had been featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/04\/28\/repairs-to-cnw-2808\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this earlier post<\/a>, and was also in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2019\/02\/17\/cnw-locomotive-backshop\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this overall photograph<\/a> inside the shop.<\/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\/2021\/01\/CNW-2808-at-Loco-Backshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CNW-2808-at-Loco-Backshop.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;NW #2808 at Locomotive Backshop\" class=\"wp-image-2356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CNW-2808-at-Loco-Backshop.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CNW-2808-at-Loco-Backshop-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CNW-2808-at-Loco-Backshop-600x627.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Delano was visiting the C&amp;NW&#8217;s 40th Street shops in December of 1942. There he recorded this view of steam locomotive #2808 undergoing heavy repairs. The 2-8-4 Berkshire was of the class J-4, and was built by Brooks (Alco) in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/01\/31\/cnw-2808-in-the-backshop\/\">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-2357","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\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}