{"id":1863,"date":"2015-06-26T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2018-08-07T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:15:03","slug":"freight-car-friday-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/freight-car-friday-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Car Friday #40 &#8211; WC 62630"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1864\" src=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247-500x255.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG DIGIMAX 360\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit older than the modern CN and CP cars recently pictured, although still a little outside my personal targeted mid-1980s modelling era, is this Wisconsin Central gondola for coil steel service.<\/p>\n<p>Originally built for the SOO Line and acquired during WC&#8217;s startup in 1986, this car has unusually deep sides and covers to protect the coil steel load.<\/p>\n<p>Similar WC covered gondolas would have been a common sight in Sault Ste. Marie during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken by myself in Sault Ste. Marie in August 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit older than the modern CN and CP cars recently pictured, although still a little outside my personal targeted mid-1980s modelling era, is this Wisconsin Central gondola for coil steel service. Originally built for the SOO Line and acquired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/freight-car-friday-40\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[47],"tags":[59,229,331,257,303],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-railways","tag-coil-steel","tag-freight-car-friday","tag-prototype","tag-wc","tag-wisconsin-central"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/S3600247.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3OeVX-u3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}