{"id":2826,"date":"2022-03-27T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2022-03-27T10:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:16:25","slug":"boilermakers-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/27\/boilermakers-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Boilermakers at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March of 1943, while in Fort Madison, Iowa, Jack Delano decided to visit the Santa Fe&#8217;s Shopton locomotive shops.  He chanced upon a pair of boilermakers doing repairs inside of the firebox of a locomotive (yes, there are two men inside that cavern).  It looks like they&#8217;re doing some welding repairs, something not uncommon in this environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like that opening into the firebox is quite large, but in fact, it&#8217;s barely big enough for a man to squeeze through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"859\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work.jpg\" alt=\"Boilermakers at Work\" class=\"wp-image-2825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work-768x805.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Boilermakers-at-Work-600x629.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 1943, while in Fort Madison, Iowa, Jack Delano decided to visit the Santa Fe&#8217;s Shopton locomotive shops. He chanced upon a pair of boilermakers doing repairs inside of the firebox of a locomotive (yes, there are two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/03\/27\/boilermakers-at-work\/\">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-2826","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\/2826","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=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}