Time Keeper Story: Railroad Schedules Kept by Special Crew

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Children of the modern age, attuned to digital time and atomic clocks, may not consider the imperative nature of timing the movement of trains in years past.

Timing was everything. It could mean the death of railroad employees and passengers if someone made a mistake. The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe devoted numerous man hours to making sure that all employee's watches worked correctly --- allowing for only nine- second discrepancies, said Jim Creviston, Topeka, who worked for more than 31 years in the Time Service Department at the railroad.

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Time Keeper Story: Railroad Schedules Kept by Special Crew

"Before they had all the modern-day communications, from one point to another, they had to rely on their watches," he s...

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