{"id":4014,"date":"2024-12-01T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2024-12-01T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:56:56","slug":"clearing-the-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/12\/01\/clearing-the-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Main"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a wet and foggy Saturday back in February of 2004 when I recorded this view of some trackwork machinery clearing the Canadian National mainline for an oncoming train.  The location is milepost 859 at the Amtrak depot in Hammond, Louisiana.  The signal indicates there is traffic ahead, likely a freight train as it isn&#8217;t time yet for Amtrak train #59, the <em>City of New Orleans<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main.jpg\" alt=\"Clearing the Main\" class=\"wp-image-4013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Clearing-the-Main-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a wet and foggy Saturday back in February of 2004 when I recorded this view of some trackwork machinery clearing the Canadian National mainline for an oncoming train. The location is milepost 859 at the Amtrak depot in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/12\/01\/clearing-the-main\/\">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-4014","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\/4014","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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}