{"id":2822,"date":"2022-03-20T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T14:53:02","slug":"lighting-the-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/20\/lighting-the-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting the Markers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As darkness approaches, brakeman M. H. Burdette lights his markers and gets them ready to hang on the rear end of the caboose.  We&#8217;re on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad on a run between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographed by Jack Delano 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\/Lighting-the-Markers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lighting-the-Markers.jpg\" alt=\"Lighting the Markers\" class=\"wp-image-2821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lighting-the-Markers.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lighting-the-Markers-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lighting-the-Markers-768x802.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lighting-the-Markers-600x626.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As darkness approaches, brakeman M. H. Burdette lights his markers and gets them ready to hang on the rear end of the caboose. We&#8217;re on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad on a run between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/20\/lighting-the-markers\/\">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-2822","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\/2822","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=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}