The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-13
INCREASE OF ION TIME"
 TRAIN RECORDS

The record of on "time trains" made by southern railroads so often approaches 100 per cent that one much below 90 per cent would be considered unusual. Improvement of train operation has been marked during the past few years. It is in decided contrast to the record of decade ago.
 The Southern railroad record for Novem- Der is 91.5 per cent of "on time" passenger trains. The total number of trains operated was 14,663 and 13,425 of these were on time.
 The various clements acting together to ere ate such records may not be capable of exact summary. Painstaking effort is probably the principal cause. Divided into it's constituent parts, that effort has consisted of such things as larger and heavier rails, stronger cars, a better road bed, more efficient locomotives and, above all, an improved personnel.
 Just how the personnel has been improved railroad operatives best know, but mere physi- cal betterments could not have of themselves alone worked out these remarkable Ion time" records. They are made not on one trunk line, but on most of them
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