{"id":2810,"date":"2022-03-06T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2022-03-06T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:50:05","slug":"passing-through-ancona-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/06\/passing-through-ancona-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Through Ancona, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We aren&#8217;t too far out of Chicago as the westbound Santa Fe freight on which we&#8217;re riding passes through the tiny community of Ancona, Illinois.  This depot is long gone today, though the tracks are still there (and not much else).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring time might be just around the corner, as the snow appears to be melting away.  Jack Delano recorded this scene in 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\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois.jpg\" alt=\"Passing Through Ancona, Illinois\" class=\"wp-image-2809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois.jpg 867w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois-768x797.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Passing-Through-Ancona-Illinois-600x623.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We aren&#8217;t too far out of Chicago as the westbound Santa Fe freight on which we&#8217;re riding passes through the tiny community of Ancona, Illinois. This depot is long gone today, though the tracks are still there (and not much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/06\/passing-through-ancona-illinois\/\">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-2810","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\/2810","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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}