{"id":57759,"date":"2025-07-09T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57759"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:23:18","slug":"qotd-look-at-those-high-cars-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/qotd-look-at-those-high-cars-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Look at those high cars roll&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Another New York Central president who rode <em>The Century<\/em> in preference to the fine business car No. 1 which was at his disposal was F.E. Williamson.  [&#8230;] he took pleasure in the same amenities of luxury travel as he shared with other <em>Century<\/em> regulars: cocktails in the club car, a breath of fresh air on the open observation platform that survived into his regime, The <em>Century<\/em> Dinner and a long night&#8217;s sleep as the train rolled tranquilly under the stars.<\/p>\n<p>Once encountered on the observation platform by the author as <em>The Century<\/em> rocketed through the Indiana countryside to overtake and pass a long merchandise train doing a mere sixty on the adjacent track [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at those high cars roll&#8221;, he exclaimed, as we passed the head end of the swiftly moving freight.  &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing so beautiful in the world as a money making train going places fast on a spring evening!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lucius Beebe, <em>20th Century<\/em>, 1962.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another New York Central president who rode The Century in preference to the fine business car No. 1 which was at his disposal was F.E. Williamson. [&#8230;] he took pleasure in the same amenities of luxury travel as he shared with other Century regulars: cocktails in the club car, a breath of fresh air on [&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":[831,7,41,237,13],"tags":[1026,202],"class_list":["post-57759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-quotations","category-railways","category-usa","tag-microeconomics","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-f1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759","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=57759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96468,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759\/revisions\/96468"}],"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=57759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}