{"id":2514,"date":"2021-06-13T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2021-06-13T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:24:02","slug":"loading-critters-on-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/06\/13\/loading-critters-on-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Loading Critters on the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano made his way to the Calumet Park stockyards in Calumet City, Illinois.  There he found workers busily loading stock cars that day.  In the photograph below steers are being loaded into a Missouri Pacific car.  It seems that one of the beasts is wise to what&#8217;s going on, and has decided she isn&#8217;t going to have any part of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"861\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train.jpg\" alt=\"Loading Cattle on the Train\" class=\"wp-image-2512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train.jpg 861w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train-768x803.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Cattle-on-the-Train-600x627.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is a group of sheep being loaded into the upper deck of a Burlington stock car.  They all appear to be compliant, even giving the worker wide berth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train.jpg\" alt=\"Loading Sheep on the Train\" class=\"wp-image-2513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Loading-Sheep-on-the-Train-600x628.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These stockyards are operated by the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 1943 Jack Delano made his way to the Calumet Park stockyards in Calumet City, Illinois. There he found workers busily loading stock cars that day. In the photograph below steers are being loaded into a Missouri Pacific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/06\/13\/loading-critters-on-the-train\/\">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-2514","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\/2514","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=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}