{"id":4198,"date":"2025-04-13T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:23:22","slug":"the-four-aces-in-rhinehart-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/04\/13\/the-four-aces-in-rhinehart-la\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Aces in Rhinehart, LA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In January of 1976 railfan and historian Louis Saillard was exploring the Louisiana Midland Railway. He recorded this view of their RS-1 #1111 working the pulpwood yard in Rhinehart, Louisiana. The #1111 (nicknamed the Four Aces) was originally GM&O #1111. It was later sold to the Chattahoochie Industrial as their #1111, then to the Conrad Yelvington as their #262.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Louisiana Midland was created in 1945, then came under Illinois Central control in 1967. The railroad was re-created in March of 1974 after its sale by the (now) Illinois Central Gulf to Trans-Action Associates. The railroad ceased operations in July of 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits go to the Mississippi Rails<\/em> and The Diesel Shop “Fallen Flags”<\/em> websites for information about the LM Rwy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In January of 1976 railfan and historian Louis Saillard was exploring the Louisiana Midland Railway. He recorded this view of their RS-1 #1111 working the pulpwood yard in Rhinehart, Louisiana. The #1111 (nicknamed the Four Aces) was originally GM&O #1111. … Continue reading →<\/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-4198","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\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}