{"id":1136,"date":"2013-02-11T23:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:50:05","slug":"digging-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2013\/02\/11\/digging-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1137\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn.jpg?w=520\" alt=\"Brockton &amp; Plymouth Street Railway Company snowplow, circa 1915\" width=\"520\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/thg-09-0958-gpn-1024x823.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brockton &amp; Plymouth Street Railway Company snowplow, circa 1915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trolley ran through Kingston from 1889 to 1928, and while the traffic definitely increased in the summer, the cars ran all winter too. In 1922, when the Brockton &amp; Plymouth (successor to the Plymouth &amp; Kingston and predecessor to the Plymouth &amp; Brockton) owned the line, the rolling stock included three snowplow cars. One is shown here, scanned from a glass plate negative copy of an earlier photographic print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trolley ran through Kingston from 1889 to 1928, and while the traffic definitely increased in the summer, the cars ran all winter too. In 1922, when the Brockton &amp; Plymouth (successor to the Plymouth &amp; Kingston and predecessor to the Plymouth &amp; Brockton) owned the line, the rolling stock included three snowplow cars. One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2013\/02\/11\/digging-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digging out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[234,270],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-town-of-kingston","tag-snowplow","tag-trolleys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}