{"id":3071,"date":"2022-10-02T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:30:50","slug":"pushing-the-train-over-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/02\/pushing-the-train-over-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Train Over the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a cold winter&#8217;s day Otto C. Perry captured this scene of a D&amp;RGW freight train in its attempt to get over the mountainous line.  We&#8217;re on the east side of Cerro Summit and the two locomotives on the head of the train aren&#8217;t enough power.  Locomotive #361 is lending a hand on the rear, and the trio is managing to struggle up the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D&amp;RGW 2-8-0 locomotive #361 is a Class C-21, built in 1900 by Baldwin.  She was originally Crystal River Railroad #102, and she was scrapped in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The date of the photo is unknown.  Former collection of William H. Radcliffe, collection of Jack C. Shall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher.jpg\" alt=\"D&amp;RGW 2-8-0 #361 as Pusher\" class=\"wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DRGW-2-8-0-361-as-Pusher-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cold winter&#8217;s day Otto C. Perry captured this scene of a D&amp;RGW freight train in its attempt to get over the mountainous line. We&#8217;re on the east side of Cerro Summit and the two locomotives on the head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/02\/pushing-the-train-over-the-hill\/\">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-3071","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\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}