N&W Watch

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Harry 

 

     I don’t know the exact  time frame but at one point  Jack Caparts Jewry store in Kenova WV(N&W Watcher Insp, ) had this Western Union Time service  clock 

In the store and the time was telegraph in everyday at noon  , As you said mash the button . but there was two relays in the clock one for the Kenova Bank a few doors up the street and one for the N&W Kenova Depot  two blocks away hard wired to this clock . I got the clock from this watch maker who worked there and who’s duties was to take care of it and listen every day for the telegraph .   When Western Union went out of the time business they sent an auditor for their equipment . When he ask about the clock. He was told your not taken that clock  . Auditor replied clock destroy in accident.  I think it hang in the store until the 1970s and he took it home when the store closed up  . I was able to buy it a few years ago . The two relays still in the clock .

 

 

 

Also Kenova Station had a Seth Thomas No  1 which is now hanging in the hall way at VMT 

 

Larry Evans

 

 

 

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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, there

was no longer a telegraph connection,  There were places on Norfolk Terminal where standard clocks

were 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.and

55 seconds into the dot transmission, there'd be a pause, then one long dash  It was time to mash a

button on the clock and it would correct itself to show 12:00:00          Harry Bundy

 

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