No all railroad definations make sense. They just tell how it will be run
and more modern practices and computers do not help
sjh
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From: <PSHedgpeth@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:15 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Timetable East West North and South
> 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
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> 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.
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> 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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