{"id":2699,"date":"2021-11-21T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2021-11-21T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T16:36:22","slug":"meeting-the-eastbound-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/21\/meeting-the-eastbound-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the Eastbound Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Santa Fe freight that Jack Delano is riding is easing down a mountain having just crossed its summit.  And passing at right is an eastbound passenger train, the Chief, as it nears the end of it&#8217;s charge up the grade.  At this point the Chief is only about three hours into its 45 hour run to Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This section of railroad is located between Barstow and San Bernardino, California.  There are some long, winding grades along this route.  The brakeman is seen riding the running boards, keeping a close eye out for problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #3770 steamer powering the Chief is a Baldwin built 4-8-4 Northern and is quite the beast, sporting 80&#8243; drivers, running 300 lbs. of boiler pressure, and producing 79,968 lbs. of tractive effort.  Note the war-time required tightly visored headlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photograph by Jack Delano, March of 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting the Eastbound Chief\" class=\"wp-image-2698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief-768x802.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Meeting-the-Eastbound-Chief-600x626.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Santa Fe freight that Jack Delano is riding is easing down a mountain having just crossed its summit. And passing at right is an eastbound passenger train, the Chief, as it nears the end of it&#8217;s charge up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/21\/meeting-the-eastbound-chief\/\">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-2699","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\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}