{"id":2571,"date":"2021-08-08T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2021-08-08T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:46:47","slug":"at-the-throttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/08\/08\/at-the-throttle\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Throttle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March of 1943 while Jack Delano was working his way out west on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, he managed to get a little cab time while the steam locomotive was under way.  Pictured below is Engineer B. F. Hale at the throttle of his charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The train has left Wellington, Kansas and is passing through Kiowa on it&#8217;s way to Waynoka, Oklahoma.  Mr. Hale has the throttle pulled pretty far back, and the Johnson bar (barely visible) appears to be far in the corner, so it&#8217;s likely the locomotive is pulling hard as it leaves town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle.jpg\" alt=\"At the Throttle\" class=\"wp-image-2570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle-768x794.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/At-the-Throttle-600x621.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 1943 while Jack Delano was working his way out west on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, he managed to get a little cab time while the steam locomotive was under way. Pictured below is Engineer B. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/08\/08\/at-the-throttle\/\">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-2571","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\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}