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To: LindyBill who wrote (30894)	9/1/2000 3:48:48 PM
From: Pawhuska49	Respond to of 54805

A light went on in my head LB, I'm not gonna say what a cool post that was. Others will have to catch on by themselves. btw Ambrose was interviewed on Hardball last night, and I resolved then to go out and get that book. mike

To: LindyBill who wrote (30894)	9/2/2000 12:33:40 AM
From: StockHawk	Respond to of 54805

Before the Union Pacific, if you wanted to be "bi-coastal", it took 6 months to a year. Afterwards, 3 days! Another interesting aspect of this progress was how it changed local time. Until the 1860s most cities relied upon their own local "sun time", determined by calling it noon when the sun was at its highest. This resulted in every town having its own local time (with the time changing by about one minute for every 12 miles east or west). Before the railroads no one cared, but with trains able to cover vast distances time, and schedules became very important. It was a mess developing train schedules so the railroads decided to fix things. They established a uniform time zone called Railroad Time. It was not until 1883 that Congress decreed that the United States would be divided into four time zones. Many localities were furious at this loss of autonomy and the loss of their local time. StockHawk