{"id":2529,"date":"2021-07-04T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:01:41","slug":"discussing-the-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/07\/04\/discussing-the-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing the Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During his tour of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in January of 1943, Jack Delano recorded this view of IHB Conductor Cunningham discussing the train he is to pick up with the Chicago and North Western yardmaster.  Though not identified, I would assume the yardmaster is the gentleman with the fedora and necktie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the composition of this image, with the steamer at center, and two others flanking these railroaders on either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment.jpg\" alt=\"Discussing the Assignment\" class=\"wp-image-2528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment-768x802.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Discussing-the-Assignment-600x626.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his tour of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in January of 1943, Jack Delano recorded this view of IHB Conductor Cunningham discussing the train he is to pick up with the Chicago and North Western yardmaster. Though not identified, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/07\/04\/discussing-the-assignment\/\">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-2529","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\/2529","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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}