{"id":33,"date":"2012-07-08T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lacentralrr.com\/2012\/07\/08\/cloudy-weather-on-the-louisiana-central\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:47:16","slug":"cloudy-weather-on-the-louisiana-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/08\/cloudy-weather-on-the-louisiana-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy Weather on the Louisiana Central"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you local folks know, this weekend has seen the end of the “mini-drought” that we’ve been having.\u00a0 Friday afternoon saw the weather beginning to change over the Louisiana Central as well.\u00a0 Late in the day several clouds started appearing on the horizon over near Whitcomb, and by Saturday afternoon the entire railroad was under cloudy skies.<\/p>\n

Yes friends, the layout construction has officially started!\u00a0 And it started by getting the clouds painted onto the backdrop.\u00a0 I used old fashioned “rattle” spray cans along with the cloud stencils provided by New London Industries.\u00a0 Here are a couple closeup photos to whet your appetite.<\/p>\n

\"Photo\"Photo\"Photo<\/p>\n

In a week or so I’ll get several larger photos uploaded to the web site for your perusal (Edit:\u00a0 they’re there now<\/a>).\u00a0 I tried to capture typical Louisiana weather on a summer afternoon, with bands of clouds popping up on the horizon and then rapidly moving over the area (where you’re at, naturally) as an afternoon thunderstorm.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to see in these small photos, but there is a faint line near the bottom of each picture.\u00a0 That line is roughly at track level.\u00a0 Much (probably most) of that bottom layer of clouds will end up behind trees, buildings and other scenic features.\u00a0 But where there is a wee gap in the landscape, I want the clouds to show through.<\/p>\n

Next up is benchwork.\u00a0 I’ll likely get a start on that next weekend.<\/p>\n

-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you local folks know, this weekend has seen the end of the “mini-drought” that we’ve been having.\u00a0 Friday afternoon saw the weather beginning to change over the Louisiana Central as well.\u00a0 Late in the day several clouds started appearing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-layout-constr","category-scenery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}