{"id":3500,"date":"2023-11-05T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2023-11-05T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:20:45","slug":"mays-yard-on-the-illinois-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/05\/mays-yard-on-the-illinois-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Mays Yard on the Illinois Central"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March of 1965 I visited the Illinois Central Mays Yard in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.  It was right at dusk that day when I spotted this switcher with its cut of cars patiently waiting for a couple Geep locomotives to clear.  This view is looking West, with the yard throat just behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig.jpg\" alt=\"ICRR at Mays Yard\" class=\"wp-image-3499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ICRR-Mays-Yard-wSig-381x300.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 1965 I visited the Illinois Central Mays Yard in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It was right at dusk that day when I spotted this switcher with its cut of cars patiently waiting for a couple Geep locomotives to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/05\/mays-yard-on-the-illinois-central\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","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\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}