"Ties" was the company magazine of the Southern Railway System. The first issue appeared in March 1947, and the last issue was published in 1982. You are bidding on an issue of "Ties" from August 1954. The cover photo is of a worker at Spencer (NC) servicing a journal box. Feature stories include Southern’s new “Save-A-Day” freight service from the northeast to various cities; an editorial article on highway taxes for trucks; the wife of an employee in Columbia (SC) who ran a scout troupe for handicapped boys; an employee who had recently immigrated to the US from Honduras; and a reunion of military railroad veterans in Milwaukee (WI). An historical photo section includes a photo of a train of the Atlanta & Fort Valley Railroad (1896) and the “pocket train” at Danville (KY) in 1906.
