{"id":204,"date":"2008-03-17T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:17","slug":"iron-horse-tour-of-the-railroad-club-of-chicago-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/iron-horse-tour-of-the-railroad-club-of-chicago-1964.html","title":{"rendered":"Iron Horse Tour of the Railroad Club of Chicago, 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Iron-Horse-Tour-Railroad-Club-of-Chicago.jpg\"><img style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/f\/ff\/Iron-Horse-Tour-Railroad-Club-of-Chicago.jpg\/458px-Iron-Horse-Tour-Railroad-Club-of-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Iron-Horse-Tour-Railroad-Club-of-Chicago.jpg\">July 19, 1964<\/a>, a group of railroad aficionados piled aboard a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnwhs.org\/memberphotos\/displayimage.php?album=7&amp;pos=34\">7900 series lounge car<\/a> belonging to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnwhs.org\/\">Chicago and North Western Railway<\/a>, en route to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalrrmuseum.org\/en-us\/default.aspx\">National Railroad Museum<\/a> in Green Bay, Wisconsin.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railcc.org\/\">The Railroad Club of Chicago<\/a> sponsored this &#8216;lounge car party,&#8217; bringing along friends from Milwaukee along the way, and providing one free drink in the fare.   I imagine that a car-full of railroad guys &#8212; at least 38 of them &#8212; in a moving bar for five hours straight were a mighty friendly bunch when they disembarked in Green Bay.  I&#8217;m pleased to see that the club is still around.  Too often, &#8216;archaic&#8217; clubs like these dwindle in numbers as their members age and fall away, but railroad people are an odd bunch; the romance of the rails meets men&#8217;s natural affinity for huge, loud, mechanical machines, and you end up with some fun-loving guys who&#8217;ll pile on a train and road-trip to Green Bay to see more trains.  Today, they promote rail travel, discuss community history revolving around trains, and remind everyone that, even though trains are disappearing, they meant a lot to the United States we live in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-534009664890892171?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, 1964, a group of railroad aficionados piled aboard a 7900 series lounge car belonging to the Chicago and North Western Railway, en route to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Railroad Club of Chicago sponsored this &#8216;lounge car party,&#8217; bringing along friends from Milwaukee along the way, and providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,246,418,416,187,417,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}