{"id":3861,"date":"2024-09-01T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:41:59","slug":"breaking-in-the-sp-745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/01\/breaking-in-the-sp-745\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking-In the SP #745"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December of 2004 the newly restored steam locomotive, Southern Pacific #745, was getting her initial break-in run. Back in September of last year I posted a photograph of the locomotive as it was crossing the Bonnet Carr\u00e9 Spillway in southern Louisiana on the eastbound return leg of its trip. It occurred to me that every image I&#8217;ve posted of that locomotive has featured its right side. Looking through my photos, I realized that I indeed had some views showing her left side, and here below is my favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway.jpg\" alt=\"SP #745 at Bonnet Carre Spillway\" class=\"wp-image-3860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SP-745-at-Bonnet-Carre-Spillway-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, she is crossing that same trestle that traverses the spillway.  This view was captured on the westward outbound leg of the journey.  She would go just a few miles further to Garyville, Louisiana where she could be turned, and then head east back to her home in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can review the image and read a bit more detail about the locomotive and the spillway itself in that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/09\/17\/sp-745-at-the-bonnet-carre-spillway\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2023\/09\/17\/sp-745-at-the-bonnet-carre-spillway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>original posting<\/strong><\/a>.  For information the acronym LASTA on the caboose stands for the <em>Louisiana Steam Train Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December of 2004 the newly restored steam locomotive, Southern Pacific #745, was getting her initial break-in run. Back in September of last year I posted a photograph of the locomotive as it was crossing the Bonnet Carr\u00e9 Spillway in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/01\/breaking-in-the-sp-745\/\">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-3861","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\/3861","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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}