ON THE COVER
In war or peace, combinations like this of steel rails, powerful locomotives and loaded freight cars are life lines of America's diversified industrial and agricultural might. Railroads are as surely a weapon for the country's defense as a tank, yet as much a sign of peace and abundance as a harvesting machine. The Southern is at once a "sword" for defense and a "plowshare" for peace. .
The Southern Railway diesel freight train pictured is passing through the mountains of north Georgia on its way from Atlanta to Washington on the Southern's double-t tacked main line.
