{"id":2494,"date":"2021-06-06T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2021-06-06T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:20:27","slug":"switching-cars-on-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/06\/06\/switching-cars-on-the-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching Cars on the Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May of 1943 Jack Delano made a brief visit to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad yard (presumably) in Chicago. While there he recorded some of the switching operations of a crew. Their power was this EMC Winton powered NW1 (relatively rare &#8211; only 27 were built). Note the headlight with a visor, and the steam locomotive style bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks like a couple of &#8220;suits&#8221; from the front office are observing the crew (or perhaps the locomotive) on this overcast day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island.jpg 873w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island-768x792.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Switching-Cars-on-the-Rock-Island-600x619.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May of 1943 Jack Delano made a brief visit to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad yard (presumably) in Chicago. While there he recorded some of the switching operations of a crew. Their power was this EMC Winton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/06\/06\/switching-cars-on-the-rock\/\">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-2494","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\/2494","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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}