Family Album

Engineer E. S. Copeland (on ground) and fireman Isaac Brown stopped cleaning and oiling their Southern engine long enough for the engineer's son to snap a picture back in August, 1901. The son, H. E. Copeland, now of South Pittsburgh, Tenn., and a veteran of 22 years of Southern service, loaned TIES this print from his collection of more than 4,500 pictures of steam locomotives.

Southern's station and freight house at China Grove, N. C., as it appeared in 1897. The picture was sent in by Col. Krauth W. Thorn (U. S. Army, retired), a one-time Southern baggage clerk who is shown as the boy on the steps. Col. Thorn identifies the others, from left to right, as: James Kirk, storekeeper, C. J. Kimball, telegraph operator, John Alexander Thorn (father), agent, and Col. Thorn's two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Lasley, and Ruth Thorn (on steps).