Pat McCarthy has been a railway modeler more than 40 years. He got his start at Hall’s Hobby House in Dallas, Texas and has been hooked on the hobby ever since.
He presently serves as Superintendent of the Magnolia Division of the Southeastern Region. He is a member of the National Railway Historical Society and the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. He models the Kansas City Southern Ry., with emphasis on passenger operations at Union Station in Shreveport Louisiana in the late summer of 1951. He also collects railroad standard pocket watches.
CLINIC - A Brief History of Railroad Time
With No Apologies to Stephen Hawking. . . .
Clinic attendees will be taken on a journey back in time, to a place where chaos reigned among railroaders, their
customers, and passengers. We will find our hero to be a simple shopkeeper with a vision; one of rule and
order - and where the finest built instruments known to man will create safety and harmony on the rails.
We will examine the history of the Railroad Standard Pocket Watch, the companies which built them, and
the railroaders that carried them. If you have one of these beautiful timepieces, please bring it with you!
You will learn many things about it; besides telling time, they all tell a story!
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