{"id":2888,"date":"2013-06-30T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinturnbull.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2014-05-05T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:48:44","slug":"super-chief-train-of-the-stars-lost-its-brakes-and-came-to-rest-above-aliso-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2013\/06\/30\/super-chief-train-of-the-stars-lost-its-brakes-and-came-to-rest-above-aliso-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Chief \u201cTrain of the Stars\u201d lost its brakes and came to rest above Aliso Street."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2889\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2013\/06\/30\/super-chief-train-of-the-stars-lost-its-brakes-and-came-to-rest-above-aliso-street\/train-of-the-stars\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?fit=598%2C615&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"598,615\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Jan. 25, 1948: A Santa Fe Diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso St. after running off the end of rails at Union Station.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"train-of-the-stars\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Jan. 25, 1948: A Santa Fe Diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso St. after running off the end of rails at Union Station.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?fit=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?fit=598%2C615&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2889\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Super Chief \u201cTrain of the Stars\u201d lost its brakes and came to rest above Aliso Street. \" alt=\"Super Chief \u201cTrain of the Stars\u201d lost its brakes and came to rest above Aliso Street. \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?resize=598%2C615\" width=\"598\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/train-of-the-stars.jpg?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">The Super Chief claimed to be \u201cThe Train of the Stars\u201d because of the many celebrities it carried between Chicago and Los Angeles. On this day it lost its brakes at L.A.\u2019s Union Station (in downtown L.A.) and crashed through a bumper post and a concrete wall and came to rest above Aliso Street. No injuries, but the engineer lost his job over the incident. (And probably his nerve.)<em><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Chief claimed to be \u201cThe Train of the Stars\u201d because of the many celebrities it carried between Chicago and Los Angeles. On this day it lost its brakes at L.A.\u2019s Union Station (in downtown L.A.) and crashed through &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2013\/06\/30\/super-chief-train-of-the-stars-lost-its-brakes-and-came-to-rest-above-aliso-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,60],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-downtown-los-angeles","tag-trains-and-railways"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-KA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}