October 1950 Ties

Table of Contents

Electroplating at Hayne Car
"Save Our Highways" Club Operation

"Soapsuds" (Southern's Laundry at Atlanta)

Working for the Southern at Richmond, Va.

"Tales of Southern Railroading"

"The Man Who Had to Die"

Southern Orders 2,000 New Box Cars

Mechanical Department Conference

Changes at Press Street Yard ( New Orleans, La. )

ON THE COVER

The answer to the country's need for the transportation of freight traffic in great volume rests-and will continue to rest - in the ability of the country's railroads to serve as no other transportation medium can serve.

This Southern freight train - a mighty Diesel - electric locomotive pulling a seemingly endless string of box cars - is only one of the many that can be seen every day on Southern rails. It is a typical example of mass transportation at its best in the only transportation industry that pays all its own costs of operation.