{"id":654,"date":"2015-05-22T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:42:28","slug":"a-special-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2015\/05\/22\/a-special-car\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished assembling this boxcar commemorating the 1973 NMRA National Convention in Atlanta.\u00a0 My good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2013\/07\/18\/clyde-f-bill-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Williams<\/a> had picked up this kit during that convention which he and I, along with a couple other guys, had attended.\u00a0 Bill passed away a couple years ago and several months later, some other friends were liquidating a bunch of Bill&#8217;s railroad equipment during a railroading get-together and banquet.\u00a0 We found this car in the box and I just had to have it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SER-Boxcar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SER-Boxcar.jpg\" alt=\"SER Boxcar\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SER-Boxcar.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SER-Boxcar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SER-Boxcar-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The car is an old blue box Athearn that the NMRA had specially made up for the convention.\u00a0 I decided to leave it more or less in &#8220;stock&#8221; form, adding only Accurail trucks, Intermountain wheelsets and Kadee couplers.\u00a0 The car (by virtue of the date) is really too new for my era, however it will find a display spot in the train room and will likely be quietly added to an occasional train.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thrilled to have this car, both for the memory of the convention and especially of Bill.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished assembling this boxcar commemorating the 1973 NMRA National Convention in Atlanta.\u00a0 My good friend Bill Williams had picked up this kit during that convention which he and I, along with a couple other guys, had attended.\u00a0 Bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2015\/05\/22\/a-special-car\/\">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":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-locos-rolling-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}