{"id":2897,"date":"2022-06-19T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2022-06-19T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:39:34","slug":"night-switching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/19\/night-switching\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Switching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week we saw the image Jack Delano captured of a brakeman flagging his train on a cold January day in 1943.  It&#8217;s now nighttime, and he&#8217;s still at the Indiana Harbor Belt yard observing and recording the crews in their labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re adjacent to the cattle pens here, and the switchman is signaling the engineer to stop.  He&#8217;ll line that switch for the other route, and then signal the engine to come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railroading on most railroads is a 24 hour\/day proposition, and work goes on regardless of the time or weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IHB-Switchman-with-Lantern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IHB-Switchman-with-Lantern.jpg\" alt=\"IHB Switchman With Lantern\" class=\"wp-image-2896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IHB-Switchman-with-Lantern.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IHB-Switchman-with-Lantern-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IHB-Switchman-with-Lantern-600x707.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we saw the image Jack Delano captured of a brakeman flagging his train on a cold January day in 1943. It&#8217;s now nighttime, and he&#8217;s still at the Indiana Harbor Belt yard observing and recording the crews in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/19\/night-switching\/\">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-2897","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\/2897","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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}