Time Zone example

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These days, a train number such as “201” is merely a marketing number. I’m not aware of any railroad running an old-style timetable and train order operation so I doubt 201 appears in any employee timetable as a scheduled train where the schedule confers authority to operate the train with inferior trains required to clear 201’s schedule. As such, for operating purposes, it is simply an Extra (as is virtually every other freight train these days) and it is officially known as Extra ZZZZ West where ZZZZ is the leading locomotive number. When this extra is given authority to operate, such authority extends no father than the limits of that division or district (the limits of the area dispatched by one dispatcher). It is officially a different train (regardless of what it commonly known as) when it moves into the next division or district.

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Larry Stone
lstone19 at stonejongleux.com





> On Feb 19, 2020, at 11:30 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
>     You are speaking of quite a number of different Districts, read train crews. It is all taken care of in the previous answers.
> 
> Jimmy Lisle
> 
> On 2/19/2020 2:48 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> The response to my initial question has been illuminating. Now, to be more specific regarding today's NS operation, how is the crossing into CST time handled by 201 running from Rutherford, PA to Rossville, TN. Is a change made at Chattanooga?  Listening to RailroadRadio I am aware that the various dispatchers covering Virginia and east to Knoxville always add the time of day (Eastern) to their instructions to the train crews.
>> 
>> 
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