{"id":2365,"date":"2021-02-07T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2021-02-07T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:38:49","slug":"portrait-of-the-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/02\/07\/portrait-of-the-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of the Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano managed to get a ride on a Chicago and North Western freight train.  The trip started at the Proviso Yard near Chicago and made the trip to Clinton, Iowa and return.  I&#8217;ve shown a couple photos that he took along the way in previous posts.  See them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/09\/13\/after-the-meet\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/09\/13\/after-the-meet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/05\/31\/cnw-tower-hm\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/05\/31\/cnw-tower-hm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here Mr. Delano has lined up most of the crew for a portrait before they start on their journey.  Unfortunately the fireman didn&#8217;t make the cut, as he was busy tending the fire on the locomotive.  But seen here are the two brakemen at left, the engineer, and the conductor at right.  In a few minutes they&#8217;ll be on their way on this frosty morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #3014 is a 1929 product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and is a class &#8216;H&#8217; 4-8-4 Northern.  She has 76&#8243; drivers, runs with a 250 psi boiler pressure, and generates 65,225 lbs. of tractive force.<\/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\/02\/CNW-Crew-and-Train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CNW-Crew-and-Train.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;NW Crew and Train\" class=\"wp-image-2364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CNW-Crew-and-Train.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CNW-Crew-and-Train-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CNW-Crew-and-Train-600x625.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano managed to get a ride on a Chicago and North Western freight train. The trip started at the Proviso Yard near Chicago and made the trip to Clinton, Iowa and return. I&#8217;ve shown a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/02\/07\/portrait-of-the-crew\/\">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-2365","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\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}