{"id":29212,"date":"2012-06-07T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=29212"},"modified":"2012-06-07T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T01:00:55","slug":"cover-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/cover-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring the caboose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12june\/caboose.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The caboose is now open for tours on Sunday afternoons from 1:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm at the Arts Council&#8217;s Depot<\/em><!--more--><br \/>\nWhat is red and black and shiny all over? Answer: The newest addition to the historic train cars by the St. Johns Depot: a mostly-restored wooden caboose!<br \/>\nThe car was originally painted orange because it started out as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail line. However it spent most of its years with the Grand Trunk Western (GTW) railway as a red caboose.<br \/>\nRecords show that it was made in Port Huron, Michigan on July 23, 1927. Since GTW is the rail line that went through St. Johns until the early 1990s, there is a chance that this caboose passed through St. Johns over the years.<br \/>\nAll Aboard! The caboose is now open for tours on Sunday afternoons from 1:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm, where visitors can learn about the important role cabooses played on trains. The depot will also be open at that time for the public to see trains running on multiple tracks of the Four Seasons model train layout, and displays of historic railroad artifacts.<br \/>\nThe younger set will have a chance to create their own layouts with toy tracks and trains &#8211; including Thomas the Tank Engine. On June 10th and some future Sundays throughout the summer, Sharon Shutes will be offering free face-painting too. We look forward to meeting you soon.<br \/>\nThe historic rail cars, the model trains, artifacts, etc. are part of the Clinton Northern Railway Center, which is a branch of the Clinton County Arts Council (CCAC).<br \/>\nCCAC is thankful to receive some operating funds from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts through a competitive granting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The caboose is now open for tours on Sunday afternoons from 1:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm at the Arts Council&#8217;s Depot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}