ON THE COVER
When modern railroading in its efforts to serve the public better found it needed electronic freight classification yards (like Southern's yard at Chattanooga pictured here), railroads built them with railroad money.
Now the arrival of commercial jet aircraft brings the need for enlarged airports and improved air navigation and control systems. Will the airlines foot this bill? They don't intend to. The cry is: "Let the government do it."
For more about this curious contrast and what can be done about it, see the story.