Time change

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In the days of railroad pocket watches this problem could be taken care 
of by the use of dual hour hands as shown in the attached image of a 
_Hamilton!!_ watch.  I seem to recall that these dual time zone watches 
were used only on the Canadian railroads.

Gordon _Hamilton_ (just like the "Watch of Railroad Accuracy")


On 2/18/2020 3:27 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Simply put, we don't. As someone who works over a division that lies 
> within the limits of two civil timezones. We refer to the subdivision 
> time table. At the bottom of the first page is a note that says 
> 'Central Continental Time in effect on this subdivision' etc. Thus the 
> entire subdivision operates as if it were solely within the central 
> time zone. Usually the RR will try and keep an entire crew district 
> under the same time zone. For example I work in Alliance, NE in the 
> Mountian time zone. The Sand Hills subdivision to Ravenna, NE operates 
> into the Central time zone however it is covered by crews out of 
> alliance so the subdivision was considered mountain time. In late 2016 
> the railroad ran through Ravenna to Lincoln which meant the crew 
> district now traversed two subs. The Ravenna sub and the Sandhills 
> sub. The entirety of the Ravenna sub lies in the central time zone and 
> thus operated on CT. Now with this huge 367 mile crew district what 
> time zone do we use? Well considering 2/3 of the run is in the central 
> time zone the railroad put out a notice that the Sandhills sub would 
> now operate on Central time as well.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Nathan Simmons
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 12:01 NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
>     How does a crew running west across a time zone acknowledge the
>     change? Is there a  clock in the cab that must be adjusted?
>
>     Mike Pierry, Jr.
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