{"id":2775,"date":"2022-01-30T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:46:06","slug":"eastbound-train-about-to-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/01\/30\/eastbound-train-about-to-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastbound Train About to Depart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a clear day in March of 1943 when Jack Delano’s train was stopped in Vaughn, New Mexico. While there he spotted this eastbound freight train about to depart. Locomotive #5006 was a 2-10-4 “Texas” type beast built by Baldwin in 1938. She was retired in 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cabooses seen here are both equipped with the \u201cwig-wag\u201d targets that we’ve seen before in this post<\/a>, along with their explanation. I think the targets show up much better in this photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a clear day in March of 1943 when Jack Delano’s train was stopped in Vaughn, New Mexico. While there he spotted this eastbound freight train about to depart. Locomotive #5006 was a 2-10-4 “Texas” type beast built by … Continue reading →<\/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-2775","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\/2775","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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}