{"id":3655,"date":"2010-07-20T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T01:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/railroad-town\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T01:17:57","slug":"railroad-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/railroad-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/santa-fe.jpg' title='santa-fe.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/santa-fe.jpg' alt='santa-fe.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>In addition to it&#8217;s old western town charm, Wickenburg has another feature which we enjoy &#8211; it&#8217;s a railroad town. The trains no longer stop in Wickenburg &#8211; they stopped operations back in 1969 but the track that runs through town is still active with trains coming through several times a day.<\/p>\n<p>The old Santa Fe railroad station has been restored and currently houses the town&#8217;s visitor center and Chamber of Commerce. Behind the station is this nice old coal-burner on a siding with a tender and a caboose.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy Damsel &#8211; Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our California residence is a quarter mile from the tracks and we rather like to hear the trains as they pass through the nearby railroad crossings. I come by my affection for trains it honestly. Both my Dad and maternal Grandfather worked for the Pacific Electric railroad in Southern California &#8211; Dad worked in the powerhouse and Granddad was a motorman for the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/libraries\/archives\/la\/historic\/redcars\/\">Red Car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our new home will be about a half-mile from the track that runs through town. There is a switch northwest of town about three miles where the trains can be routed west toward California or north toward Kingman and Las Vegas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to it&#8217;s old western town charm, Wickenburg has another feature which we enjoy &#8211; it&#8217;s a railroad town. The trains no longer stop in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}