{"id":2377,"date":"2021-02-14T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:13:48","slug":"clutching-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/02\/14\/clutching-the-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutching the Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week we saw Jack Delano&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/02\/07\/portrait-of-the-crew\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2365\" target=\"_blank\">portrait of the crew<\/a> of a Chicago and North Western freight train as it was readying to start its journey.  Here the train has arrived at its destination in Clinton, Iowa and is entering the receiving yard.  With waybills clutched in hand, Conductor Wolfsmith is hopping off the caboose as the train passes the yard office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Delano recorded this scene in January of 1943.  If you&#8217;d like to see the other images along this journey, find them <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/09\/13\/after-the-meet\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/05\/31\/cnw-tower-hm\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/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\/Clutching-the-Bills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clutching-the-Bills.jpg\" alt=\"Clutching the Bills\" class=\"wp-image-2376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clutching-the-Bills.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clutching-the-Bills-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Clutching-the-Bills-600x645.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we saw Jack Delano&#8217;s portrait of the crew of a Chicago and North Western freight train as it was readying to start its journey. Here the train has arrived at its destination in Clinton, Iowa and is entering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/02\/14\/clutching-the-bills\/\">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-2377","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\/2377","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=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}