ON THE COVER
When you see a Southern freight train, or any other freight train for that matter, here is something worth remembering.
In four wars and more than a hundred years of peacetime traffic, the iron horse has proved its mettle as the mainstay of American agriculture, business, industry and defense.
Railroad freight trains still produce about as many ton-miles of intercity freight service in this country as all other forms of transportation combined. And freight trains would be carrying even more raw materials and finished products if railroads were allowed to meet their competitors on anything like equal terms.