{"id":2757,"date":"2022-01-16T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2022-01-16T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:22:03","slug":"atsf-depot-at-hereford-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/01\/16\/atsf-depot-at-hereford-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;SF Depot at Hereford, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jack Delano is on the move again, and his train is passing by the depot in Hereford, Texas.  The Santa Fe had quite a few designs for their train stations, some of masonry construction and others of wood.  But they all seemed to have certain elements that made them distinctly <em>Santa Fe<\/em>.  Here I particularly like the sloped sides of the bottom half of the structure&#8217;s brick walls, an architectural feature I&#8217;ve seen on several Illinois Central depots (Hammond, Louisiana and Brookhaven, Mississippi come to mind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this is March of 1943, the vine growing on the bay window has gone dormant, likely a good thing as it appears to cover the station name.  The building section to the right of the main structure is the Railway Express Agency&#8217;s facility.  The train order signal displays the need for crews in each direction to pick up orders for their trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;SF Depot at Hereford, Texas\" class=\"wp-image-2759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas.jpg 868w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas-768x796.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ATSF-Depot-at-Hereford-Texas-600x622.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Delano is on the move again, and his train is passing by the depot in Hereford, Texas. The Santa Fe had quite a few designs for their train stations, some of masonry construction and others of wood. But they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/01\/16\/atsf-depot-at-hereford-texas\/\">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-2757","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\/2757","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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}