ON THE COVER
Anyone who has ever watched a freight train roll by knows that only very rarely is it made up of cars belonging to a single railroad.
With more than a million freight cars being interchanged by the nation's rail- roads it is no wonder that almost any Southern freight train has foreign line cars in its consist.
A railroad pays the owners of each "foreign" car $2.75 for every day such a car is on its lines. The railroad in possession of a car at midnight makes the per diem payment. Hold a car a few minutes after midnight and you pay $2.75; move it off your lines before mid- night and you save $2.75.
Minutes cost money. It's a thought worth remembering.