ON THE COVER
In the mountains of North Carolina a four-unit. Southern Railway diesel locomotive moves upgrade with a train of freight cars, its diesel engines throbbing, its traction motors humming a song of harnessed power. The scene is on the Asheville Salisbury line of the Asheville division.
Locomotives like these cut a handsome figure in the nation-wide pageant of transportation; their shadows fall long across the land and their voices are everywhere heard in America. Their power on wheels is the power behind farms, mines and factories, the force that knits them all together.
