{"id":38657,"date":"2017-05-25T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38657"},"modified":"2017-05-24T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:25:37","slug":"dangerous-railway-practices-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/dangerous-railway-practices-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous railway practices of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>Facebook<\/em>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEBandW\/posts\/1416705285082676\" target=\"_blank\">New England, Berkshire &#038; Western<\/a> (&#8220;an HO scale layout created by the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, which is a student club on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY&#8221;), posted a link to this fascinating &mdash; eventually banned for obvious safety reasons &mdash; method of moving railway cars on parallel track to the locomotive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Raymond Breyer shared this video link on the pre-Depression page, about poling. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7YK6ePUoIo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I always assumed they would move slowly and the trainman would have to hold the pole the entire time. Guess I was quite wrong! &#8211; JN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook, the New England, Berkshire &#038; Western (&#8220;an HO scale layout created by the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society, which is a student club on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY&#8221;), posted a link to this fascinating &mdash; eventually banned for obvious safety reasons &mdash; method of moving railway cars on parallel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,237,13],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-38657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-railways","category-usa","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a3v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38660,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions\/38660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}