ON THE COVER
Tractor and trailers moving packaged freight along the platform of a Southern freight station make up a different kind of "freight train" - one the public rarely sees but one that railway people know well.
For years this freight train has played an important part in speeding the handling of less - than - carload shipments for Southern customers.
Now it fills a new role in adding convenience to carload shipments. For details, see this month's story entitled Transloading.