{"id":398,"date":"2014-07-12T02:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2019-01-31T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:29:13","slug":"the-monterey-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2014\/07\/12\/the-monterey-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monterey Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, as promised, here are a couple shots of the recently completed benchwork at Monterey.\u00a0 This first view is from the entry (at right) into Monterey. The long stretch at mid-photo is the location for the Monterey yard.\u00a0 The Georgia-Pacific kraft paper and box plant will be further down where the soldering station and tools are.\u00a0 The benchwork sticking out on the lower left is the <a title=\"Willis Yard Sub-Roadbed Down\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2013\/08\/21\/willis-yard-sub-roadbed-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willis yard <\/a>peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_02.jpg\" alt=\"Monterey, looking west\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_02.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_02-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The photo below is taken from the other end of Monterey yard.\u00a0\u00a0The G-P plant will be to my far left (out of view).\u00a0 Those strange objects sticking up along the wall are the metal brackets supporting the infra-red LEDs used for the photo detection system on the staging tracks.\u00a0 They&#8217;re located over the partially recessed (and to be hidden) Texas and Pacific track.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the top of a boxcar just visible at the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_03.jpg\" alt=\"Monterey, looking east\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_03.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Benchwork-Monterey_03-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>These, and several other photos appear on the main website.\u00a0 <a title=\"The Louisiana Central Railroad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/photos-constr-layout-home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to visit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, as promised, here are a couple shots of the recently completed benchwork at Monterey.\u00a0 This first view is from the entry (at right) into Monterey. The long stretch at mid-photo is the location for the Monterey yard.\u00a0 The Georgia-Pacific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2014\/07\/12\/the-monterey-preview\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benchwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}