{"id":3553,"date":"2023-12-31T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2023-12-31T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:36:41","slug":"progress-report-end-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/12\/31\/progress-report-end-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Report &#8211; End of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d post a brief progress report of the recovery efforts of my railroad building and layout.  The building restoration from the flood is essentially complete, with only a few very minor details needing attention.  I&#8217;ve been moving all of the boxes of stored railroading content back into the building (my garage and store room are thanking me).  As I&#8217;ve been unpacking and putting away these things, I&#8217;m amazed at how <em>much<\/em> was in this building in the first place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve also been doing a bit to get the layout itself operational.  I&#8217;ve reinstalled all of the DCC electronics and have tested to make sure all is well.  Yesterday I completed the third of the three booster districts, cleaned about 10 feet of track (amazing how filthy track can get after seven years of just sitting), fired up a trusty old Alco RS3, and watched it glide effortless up and down that short segment.  It sure was good to see and hear the old girl come back to life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus of this blog will start slowly changing back to its original intent, to document the construction and operation of the <strong>Louisiana Central Railroad<\/strong>.  The photographs that I&#8217;ve posted over these past years were really just &#8220;place holders&#8221;, intended to simply keep the blog alive until I had model railroading activities going on again.  However I&#8217;ll still post photos on occasion as I find them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d post a brief progress report of the recovery efforts of my railroad building and layout. The building restoration from the flood is essentially complete, with only a few very minor details needing attention. I&#8217;ve been moving all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/12\/31\/progress-report-end-of-2023\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","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=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}