{"id":4871,"date":"2026-06-07T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:20:46","slug":"i-c-r-r-office-car-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2026\/06\/07\/i-c-r-r-office-car-9\/","title":{"rendered":"I.C.R.R. Office Car #9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 28th day of February in 1969, a Friday, photographer and historian <em>Louis Saillard<\/em> recorded this view of the Illinois Central office car #9.  The car is coupled to the rear of train #2, the City of New Orleans, as it makes its first stop in Hammond, Louisiana on its way north from New Orleans to Chicago.  It should be a bit after 9 am on this overcast day.  And it was probably chilly outside, judging by the exhaust steam from the car&#8217;s heating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9.jpg\" alt=\"IC Office Car #9\" class=\"wp-image-4870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IC-Office-Car-9-374x300.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note the train order hoops at the right.  It&#8217;s a bit surprising to see the weeds growing up around the track structure.  But this was a time of belt-tightening on the railroad, and that second mainline track would soon be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Car #9 was built in 1917 by Pullman. The diagram sheet states &#8220;original car No. 15, renumbered to US 67, then to 15, then to no. 1, then to no. 9.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 28th day of February in 1969, a Friday, photographer and historian Louis Saillard recorded this view of the Illinois Central office car #9. The car is coupled to the rear of train #2, the City of New Orleans, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2026\/06\/07\/i-c-r-r-office-car-9\/\">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":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","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\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}