{"id":82411,"date":"2024-07-08T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=82411"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:36:33","slug":"americas-birthday-july-4-2024-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=82411","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Birthday, July 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax\"><span class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-6348 has-parallax\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b066edec45e861d41d7d7baef615886\">On Thursday, July 4th, volunteers Ron Roach, Jackie Anslovar, John McDowell, Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Reid Adams, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Chris Traficante, Dannis Hudson and Paul Brown broke out the <a href=\"https:\/\/pueblorailway.org\/roster\/the-patriot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriot<\/a>, threw a few decorations on her, and brought her around to show off to what we believe was a record breaking turnout of guests for a Fourth of July event. We showed up to a waiting crowd at the loading area, and ran back and forth for the next four hours non-stop. Cabooses were stuffed full on each run, and at one point, eight people squeezed in for a cab ride. It is always funny when folks load into the locomotive cab and ask \u201cwhere are the seats?\u201d like they are loading onto a passenger car!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3c8cb0af011270ad16593f8a61b52c37\">The crew stayed on point and made sure the everyone had an enjoyable, safe ride. The weather stayed very comfortable also, which made things a bit more pleasant as we are old school\u2026no air conditioning. It is great to see people enjoy riding a train and having an experience that is not available everywhere!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d22bed305f052ba210b6de6af6ad5f70\">I have included a few pictures I was able to take while in between runs. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22cbc34f371b82537115aaeb4eefa7c4\"><em>\u2013 Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\"><\/a>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db88f842b1b0cbdcd509377ea3b86275\"><strong><em>Photos by Paul Brown and Petar Sredojevic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, July 4th, volunteers Ron Roach, Jackie Anslovar, John McDowell, Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Reid Adams, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Chris Traficante, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage-trains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}