{"id":77,"date":"2007-10-26T21:49:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=77"},"modified":"2007-10-27T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T02:56:43","slug":"eureka-springs-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Eureka Springs, AR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I drove the Atom up to Eureka Springs, AR. I visited the Eureka Springs &amp; North Arkansas Railway, a 2-mile scenic train route. They used to operate steam equipment, but the federal boiler inspectors have become a lot tougher due to an incident elsewhere, so they can only operate diesel equipment now. [I used to work on steam equipment in the summer when I was in High School, so I&#8217;m familiar with the enormous time and expense to keep it running.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S6516-s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" title=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of their steam locomotives, and is probably the closest to operable of all of them:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S6509-s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" title=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the diesel they use to pull the passenger car(s). While this is a very small operation, the engineer has an incredibly good hand with the throttle &#8211; the coupling and uncoupling was done perfectly:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/6F5S6529-s.jpg\" alt=\"image\" title=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I drove the Atom down the Pig Trail, which has some nice twists and turns. It turns out I just missed Willie Nelson in Eureka Springs &#8211; he was in a bus in the parking lot of City Hall when I stopped in and asked for directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I drove the Atom up to Eureka Springs, AR. I visited the Eureka Springs &amp; North Arkansas Railway, a 2-mile scenic train route. They used to operate steam equipment, but the federal boiler inspectors have become a lot tougher due to an incident elsewhere, so they can only operate diesel equipment now. [I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}