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Re: [BRHSlist] Railroad North?

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Railroad North?
From: Wes Leatherock <wleath@s...>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:03:28 -0500 (CDT)
In-reply-to: <01c101c129c6$5d16e710$fb8afea9@m...>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, TheVLBG wrote:

> Tom:
> 
> That is only partially true in the present. Lines that
> are obviously North/South do use those directions.
> 
> One example is Denver to Pueblo.
> 
> TheVLBG

The ex-Santa Fe from Newton south to Oklahoma, Fort
Worth, Houston and Galveston clearly north-south, but
the timetable direction is still east-west.

Interesting enough, when the GC&SF still issued
timetables in its own name, Purcell to Galveston was
north-south. But as soon as the separate GC&SF
corporation went out of existence, it became east-
west like the rest of the Santa Fe.

Toward Chicago was east; away from Chicago was
westward.

I believe the Southern Pacific followed a
similar rule--toward San Francisco was westward,
away from San Francisco was eastward.


Wes Leatherock
wleath@s...




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