{"id":2814,"date":"2022-03-13T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2022-03-13T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T16:10:34","slug":"cutting-off-the-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/13\/cutting-off-the-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Off the Helper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A helper engine was taken on at Chillicothe for added power to tackle an eight mile grade on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa.  Here the helper has been cut off at the crest and the train will proceed on unassisted.  The #3286 is listed as a Baldwin built 2-8-2 &#8220;Mikado&#8221; manufactured in 1920.<\/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\/2022\/03\/Cutting-Off-the-Helper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cutting-Off-the-Helper.jpg\" alt=\"Cutting Off the Helper\" class=\"wp-image-2813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cutting-Off-the-Helper.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cutting-Off-the-Helper-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helper engine was taken on at Chillicothe for added power to tackle an eight mile grade on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa. Here the helper has been cut off at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/13\/cutting-off-the-helper\/\">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-2814","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\/2814","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=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}