ON THE COVER
Servicing a journal box.
There is probably no other job on the railroad performed more often- and probably, too, none more important-than giving careful attention to the condition of packing in the journal boxes of freight and passenger cars.
The packing iron and waste grab hook are marks of men whose work well done means greater safety in train operation and reduces almost entirely the possibility of train-de-laying "hot boxes."
William K. Mauldin of Spencer, N. C., is one of the many men on the Southern who perform this important work on repair tracks and in train yards and passenger stations.