{"id":5339,"date":"2013-03-18T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2013-03-18T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:00:23","slug":"two-ancient-steam-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/two-ancient-steam-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Two ancient steam engines&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nSome things that touring President Eisenhower and his retinue didn&#8217;t have a chance to see during their six-hour trip to Kabul last December:<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s only railroad &#8211; well, railroad equipment. Two ancient steam engines and tenders given Afghanistan by the late Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. The train used to make miniature runs <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/kabul-to-darulaman-railway\/\">from the Parliament building to the palaces<\/a> in the center of town. Now there&#8217;s not even a track and the engines are kept as curiosity pieces.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=vLcqAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=J2UEAAAAIBAJ&#038;dq=afghan%20railroad&#038;pg=5182%2C113689\">Contrasts Plentiful In Afghanistan<\/a>, AI Goldberg of AP&#8217;s Moscow staff, in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune of 1 February 1960.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another mention of there only being two locomotives in the past &#8211; however today there are <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/steam-locomotives-at-the-national-museum-of-afghanistan\/\"><em>three<\/em> locomotives in the museum<\/a>. It might be noted that the Kaiser had abdicated in 1918, while the locomotives date from 1923. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things that touring President Eisenhower and his retinue didn&#8217;t have a chance to see during their six-hour trip to Kabul last December: [&#8230;] The country&#8217;s only railroad &#8211; well, railroad equipment. Two ancient steam engines and tenders given Afghanistan by the late Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. The train used to make miniature runs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[223,222,52,90,163],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-223","tag-ap","tag-darulaman","tag-kabul","tag-steam-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}