{"id":48675,"date":"2021-05-05T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48675"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:13:15","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-presidential-railroad-communications-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-closer-look-at-the-presidential-railroad-communications-car\/","title":{"rendered":"A closer look at the Presidential Railroad Communications Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48779\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MagellanRailcardiningroom-1-e1620241770435.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48779\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48779\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MagellanRailcardiningroom-1-e1620241770435.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Magellan Rail Car Dining Room (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ron H, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Check out] the following link to a story about the communications car that was part of the Presidential train. [This] was originally posted on the Hammarlund listserve:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwar-c4i.net\/crate\/the_presidential_communications_railroad_car_crate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click to access the_presidential_communications_railroad_car_crate.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwar-c4i.net\/crate\/the_presidential_communications_railroad_car_crate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download PDF.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for the tip, Ron!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron H, who writes: [Check out] the following link to a story about the communications car that was part of the Presidential train. [This] was originally posted on the Hammarlund listserve: Click to access the_presidential_communications_railroad_car_crate.pdf Click here to download PDF. Thanks so much for the tip, Ron!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[9262,9263,9261],"class_list":["post-48675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-nostlgia","tag-presidential-railroad-car","tag-presidential-railroad-communications-car"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cF5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53496,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/deja-vu-railroad-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":48675,"position":0},"title":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu railroad radio","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi Fastradioburst23 here, apologies to all of the SWLing Post community who tuned in last week but sadly CTRN wasn't broadcast due to a problem at the sidings. 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