{"id":2704,"date":"2021-11-28T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T15:52:41","slug":"nighttime-at-barstow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/28\/nighttime-at-barstow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighttime at Barstow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking through the images I have of Jack Delano&#8217;s trip out west on the Santa Fe, I realized that I&#8217;d overlooked this nighttime scene that he had recorded while in Barstow, California.  Pictured is the yard there, and the scene includes three trains apparently ready for departure.  The locomotive in the foreground is 2-10-2 #1691, built by Baldwin back in 1912.  Note the unusual <em>turtle-back<\/em> tender (some sources refer to it as a <em>whale-back<\/em>, I don&#8217;t know which term is correct).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image is surprisingly sharp for what was obviously a time exposure, and Mr. Delano shows his mastery of the art with this photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow.jpg\" alt=\"Nighttime at Barstow\" class=\"wp-image-2703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow-768x817.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nighttime-at-Barstow-600x638.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through the images I have of Jack Delano&#8217;s trip out west on the Santa Fe, I realized that I&#8217;d overlooked this nighttime scene that he had recorded while in Barstow, California. Pictured is the yard there, and the scene &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/28\/nighttime-at-barstow\/\">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-2704","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\/2704","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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}