{"id":4020,"date":"2024-12-08T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:25:01","slug":"and-along-came-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/12\/08\/and-along-came-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"And Along Came the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week I posted a photo of some trackwork machinery clearing the mainline for an oncoming train. The location is milepost 859 on the Canadian National line running through Hammond, Louisiana.  And it&#8217;s a rainy Saturday in February of 2004.  We didn&#8217;t have to wait long for the train to arrive, a loaded coal freight headed up with two (former) Illinois Central SD40-2 locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the consecutive locomotive numbers, 6101 and 6102, with the 6101 showing off its CN paint job (and note the IC subscript at the bottom of the cab).  The 6102 would soon also wear this new paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train.jpg\" alt=\"Southbound CN Coal Train\" class=\"wp-image-4018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/S-B-CN-Coal-Train-407x300.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted a photo of some trackwork machinery clearing the mainline for an oncoming train. The location is milepost 859 on the Canadian National line running through Hammond, Louisiana. And it&#8217;s a rainy Saturday in February of 2004. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/12\/08\/and-along-came-the-train\/\">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-4020","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\/4020","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=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}