{"id":2831,"date":"2022-04-03T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T15:01:46","slug":"a-fresh-set-of-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/04\/03\/a-fresh-set-of-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fresh Set of Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jack Delano captured this view of Mr. Edward E. Leonard pushing a driver wheelset in place under an engine being wheeled.  We&#8217;re at the Shopton locomotive shops of the Santa Fe railroad in Fort Madison, Iowa in March of 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A locomotive&#8217;s drivers experience wear, and are built such that the outer ring (the tire) is removable for re-conditioning or replacement.  We&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/01\/re-tiring-a-locomotive-driver\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this earlier photograph<\/a> of a tire being replaced on it&#8217;s wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive.jpg\" alt=\"Re-wheeling a Locomotive\" class=\"wp-image-2830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Re-wheeling-a-Locomotive-600x629.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Delano captured this view of Mr. Edward E. Leonard pushing a driver wheelset in place under an engine being wheeled. We&#8217;re at the Shopton locomotive shops of the Santa Fe railroad in Fort Madison, Iowa in March of 1943. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/04\/03\/a-fresh-set-of-tires\/\">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-2831","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\/2831","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=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}