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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 115503" data-attributes="member: 10543">You've got some excellent mechanical skills there vindex1963.&nbsp; Very cool stuff you've been workin on!&nbsp; This is likely becoming a lost art.About 40 years ago the Santa Fe Rwy. had a massive corporate &quot;garage sale&quot; of miscellany, including vintage wall clocks from around the system.&nbsp; These were made for the railroad, so had custom faces and some had decals on the glass in the pendulum area promoting the Santa Fe System and safe work practices.&nbsp; These must be worth a handsome sum these days.&nbsp; As an example, the Seth Thomas No. 2 wall clock is just beautiful to me.&nbsp; It was built with a compensating mechanisim that kept the beat while the clock was wound.&nbsp; This assured continued accuracy as the clock was wound, as most weight driven clocks slow when wound.&nbsp; The whole topic of railroad time service on large systems is a study unto itself.I think the clock in this photograph is a Seth Thomas No. 19 and is extremely rare.&nbsp; These appeared in Dispatcher's offices.&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH]27437[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sandpatch, post: 115503, member: 10543"] You've got some excellent mechanical skills there vindex1963. Very cool stuff you've been workin on! This is likely becoming a lost art. About 40 years ago the Santa Fe Rwy. had a massive corporate "garage sale" of miscellany, including vintage wall clocks from around the system. These were made for the railroad, so had custom faces and some had decals on the glass in the pendulum area promoting the Santa Fe System and safe work practices. These must be worth a handsome sum these days. As an example, the Seth Thomas No. 2 wall clock is just beautiful to me. It was built with a compensating mechanisim that kept the beat while the clock was wound. This assured continued accuracy as the clock was wound, as most weight driven clocks slow when wound. The whole topic of railroad time service on large systems is a study unto itself. I think the clock in this photograph is a Seth Thomas No. 19 and is extremely rare. These appeared in Dispatcher's offices. [ATTACH=CONFIG]27437._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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