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<p>[quote user="Murphy Siding"]</p> <p>Test     If the ATSF did synchonized their watches on that day, or on every day,  I can't imagine they would be synchonized to the second.<br /><br />      If they had sychronized their watches to the second especially for that run,  wouldn't there have been some mention of the fact in print somewhere over the last 100 years?[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t think it would have been a big deal to synchronize watches or clocks to compare times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That has been a signature procedure in railroading for a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But even so, a stretch of run could be timed with just one timepiece. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engineers routinely did that with a measured mile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And railroads provided measured miles for just that purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The perception of a passing mile marker could easily be marked to the second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It could probably be marked to a quarter-second. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the Scott run, they <span style="text-decoration: underline;">had</span> to work to the second in order to make the calculation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>There were smart people back in 1905.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Hankey makes it sound like they hadn’t invented the second yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a link to the story of the Scott Special:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://cprr.org/Museum/Scott_Special_1905.html"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://cprr.org/Museum/Scott_Special_1905.html</span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quoted from the link:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">“From the little hamlet of Cameron to the still smaller one of Surrey is 2.8 miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“She” made it in <span style="color: #ff0000;">one minute and thirty-five seconds </span>at a rate of 106 miles an hour.”</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">From that description, they must have had the ability to count seconds. </span></span></span></p>
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