{"id":1126,"date":"2010-03-05T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:00:19","slug":"railfans-photographing-the-dc-metro-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/railfans-photographing-the-dc-metro-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Railfans: Photographing the DC Metro just got easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro-magazine.com\/News\/Story\/2010\/03\/D-C-Metro-to-install-new-train-ID-numbers.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1127\" title=\"L-DCMETRO-trains-Large-numberFULL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/L-DCMETRO-trains-Large-numberFULL-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/L-DCMETRO-trains-Large-numberFULL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/L-DCMETRO-trains-Large-numberFULL.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMATA is replacing the 2.5 inch tall car number stickers on the subway car sides with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro-magazine.com\/News\/Story\/2010\/03\/D-C-Metro-to-install-new-train-ID-numbers.aspx\">new 5 inch tall car number stickers<\/a> (as seen in the photo above). This will make identifying the car numbers of the subway cars you photograph much easier. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/album29\/IMG_3944.jpg.html\">HERE <\/a>to see a photo of the old, small numbers below the operator&#8217;s cab window.<\/p>\n<p>What more can you ask for? How about car number stickers ON THE FRONT OF THE CARS!?! The LIRR does it right (see below).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/v\/TempByDate\/2009-04-24\/DSC_6989a.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/gallery2\/d\/147540-2\/DSC_6989a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LIRR #7772 wears its number proudly - UP FRONT, where it belongs!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WMATA is replacing the 2.5 inch tall car number stickers on the subway car sides with new 5 inch tall car number stickers (as seen in the photo above). This will make identifying the car numbers of the subway cars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/railfans-photographing-the-dc-metro-just-got-easier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,56,28],"tags":[326,325,324],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-railfanning","category-subway","tag-dc","tag-metro","tag-wmata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}