{"id":2646,"date":"2021-10-03T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2021-10-03T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:40:13","slug":"passing-over-the-espee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/10\/03\/passing-over-the-espee\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Over the EsPee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Vaughn, New Mexico the Santa Fe (literally) crosses <em>over<\/em> the Southern Pacific Railroad (the EsPee, as it was affectionately known).  Mr. Delano recorded this scene as they were passing above the EsPee mainline.  Note the coaling tower, along with the huge water tank and penstock.  Off in the far distance one can make out the rather large two-story Southern Pacific station, along with a smaller building and a large storage tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be much here beyond that.  A look at Google maps shows this location still exists, with the BNSF Railway crossing over the Union Pacific.  There is what appears to be an interchange track connecting the two lines, but beyond that, there is not much else.  The structures are gone now, replaced by what appears to be a trailer near where the wooden structure is in the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack Delano photograph, March, 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee.jpg\" alt=\"Passing Over the EsPee\" class=\"wp-image-2645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee-768x798.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Passing-Over-the-EsPee-600x624.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vaughn, New Mexico the Santa Fe (literally) crosses over the Southern Pacific Railroad (the EsPee, as it was affectionately known). Mr. Delano recorded this scene as they were passing above the EsPee mainline. Note the coaling tower, along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/10\/03\/passing-over-the-espee\/\">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-2646","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\/2646","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=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}