{"id":2478,"date":"2021-05-23T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2021-05-23T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:27:28","slug":"t-j-long-tower-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/05\/23\/t-j-long-tower-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"T. J. Long, Tower Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In September of 1940 Jack Delano was traveling through the state of Pennsylvania.  That afternoon while passing through the DuBois area, he spied a railroad tower, and decided to pay a visit.  The operator there was a Mr. T. J. Long, and he graciously allowed Mr. Delano to photograph his interlocking facility.  The railroad(s) served weren&#8217;t mentioned with the photograph, but I&#8217;ll speculate that this was protecting a junction of the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Long was also the president of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in DuBois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator.jpg\" alt=\"T.J. Long, Tower Operator\" class=\"wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator-600x524.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TJ-Long-Tower-Operator-344x300.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September of 1940 Jack Delano was traveling through the state of Pennsylvania. That afternoon while passing through the DuBois area, he spied a railroad tower, and decided to pay a visit. The operator there was a Mr. T. J. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/05\/23\/t-j-long-tower-operator\/\">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-2478","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\/2478","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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}