{"id":2407,"date":"2021-03-21T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2021-03-21T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:33:21","slug":"the-car-knocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/03\/21\/the-car-knocker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Car Knocker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week we viewed a group of workers inspecting cars in the C&amp;NW yard near Chicago.  These fellows are known as <em>car knockers<\/em>, a term used for the early custom of tapping the wheels to detect flaws.  In this instance they were checking journal boxes and brakes.  The image below is a portrait of one of those workers we saw in the prior post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before how Jack Delano often featured the human element of a profession, and I&#8217;ve featured several of his photographs such as this.  My hat is off to this working gentleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago and North Western Railway, Proviso yard, December 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Car-Knocker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Car-Knocker.jpg\" alt=\"The Car Knocker\" class=\"wp-image-2406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Car-Knocker.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Car-Knocker-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Car-Knocker-600x627.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we viewed a group of workers inspecting cars in the C&amp;NW yard near Chicago. These fellows are known as car knockers, a term used for the early custom of tapping the wheels to detect flaws. In this instance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/03\/21\/the-car-knocker\/\">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-2407","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\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}