In following the conversation regarding why timetable directions are
different from geographic directions in a particular area, the old memory
light came on and I recalled the apex of opposites here tis.
This from TIME TABLE of the ST. JOSEPH DIVISION of the CENTRAL DISTRICT. NO.
66. Effective at 12:01am Central Standard Time
Sunday, September 24, 1950
Page 19 Special Instructions Item 32.
ATCHISON AND EASTERN BRIDGE CO. AT ATCHISON, KANSAS
Movement of trains will be governed............
"Eastward is from Missouri to Kansas, Westward is from Kansas to Missouri".
You Lines East guys can get out your maps and see that Kansas is West of
Missouri and vice versa.
The instruction goes on with a lengthy dissertation as to how "eastward and
westward" movements are to be made regarding signals on the CGW, UP and MOP.
TIMETABLE No. 3 of the St. Joseph Division effective Sunday October 26, 1958
carried the same exact (is that a redundancy) wording on page 10 of its
special instructions.
Can you top that for a railroad having it's own definition of directions?
"All depends on what the definition of east (and west) is"
Pete Hedgpeth
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