{"id":3998,"date":"2024-11-17T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2024-11-17T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T16:24:07","slug":"the-alm-headquarters-at-bastrop-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/11\/17\/the-alm-headquarters-at-bastrop-la\/","title":{"rendered":"The A&amp;LM Headquarters at Bastrop, LA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a hot Saturday afternoon in August of 1990, Tom Blackwell was exploring the Arkansas &amp; Louisiana Missouri Railroad facility in Bastrop, Louisiana.  He found locomotive #11, an EMD SW7, resting near the scale house.  To the left is the road&#8217;s Bastrop office and freight house (and often referred to as the depot).  That structure is curious and interesting, and folks I&#8217;ve spoken with each claim it serves as one, some, or all of these functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA.jpg\" alt=\"A&amp;LM #11 at Bastrop, La.\" class=\"wp-image-3997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ALM-11-at-Bastrop-LA-500x292.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s near the end of time for the A&amp;LM.  The road will soon be purchased by the Georgia-Pacific Corporation and renamed as the Arkansas, Louisiana &amp; Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot Saturday afternoon in August of 1990, Tom Blackwell was exploring the Arkansas &amp; Louisiana Missouri Railroad facility in Bastrop, Louisiana. He found locomotive #11, an EMD SW7, resting near the scale house. To the left is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/11\/17\/the-alm-headquarters-at-bastrop-la\/\">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-3998","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\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}