{"id":2445,"date":"2021-04-25T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:00:56","slug":"railroad-crossing-at-muirkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/04\/25\/railroad-crossing-at-muirkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Crossing at Muirkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June of 1940 Jack Delano was traveling through Maryland, heading down U.S. Highway No. 1.  This railroad crossing in the small community of Muirkirk caught his eye, so he documented it.  The railroad is the Baltimore and Ohio, and those semaphore signals caught my eye, so I thought I&#8217;d share the image with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note also the telegraph poles at right with six cross-arms supporting the telegraph lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD.jpg\" alt=\"Railroad Crossing at Muirkirk, MD\" class=\"wp-image-2444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD-600x446.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Railroad-Crossing-at-MuirkirkMD-404x300.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of 1940 Jack Delano was traveling through Maryland, heading down U.S. Highway No. 1. This railroad crossing in the small community of Muirkirk caught his eye, so he documented it. The railroad is the Baltimore and Ohio, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/04\/25\/railroad-crossing-at-muirkirk\/\">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-2445","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\/2445","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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}