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  If you go back in time the conductor and engineer would compare time on their watches before leaving.  I have stood by and watched this process many times.  As you can guess they compared time in seconds.  You would scratch your head when it was something like 15 seconds apart.  The conductor would call the time normally adjusted to the slower watch.  They would not change the watch time but one watch would govern the train movement. 
Jungle Jim Blackstock.I'm not sure how it was accomplished at Shaffers Crossing because I believe by the 1960s, therewas no longer a telegraph connection,  There were places on Norfolk Terminal where standard clockswere corrected at noon by a government agency sending dots ( .  .  .  .) beginning at 11:57 AM.If a telegrapher was communicating by wire   - - - -TOUGH -- he got over ridden.  About 2 mins.and55 seconds into the dot transmission, there'd be a pause, then one long dash  It was time to mash abutton on the clock and it would correct itself to show 12:00:00          Harry Bundy 
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