The Green Forest tribune., 1901-03-09
IS NOW A RAILROAD TOWN.
Track Laid into Green For est at
 Noon, March1.
T-o-o-t. too-o
Chow, Chow, Chow, Chow!

Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang!
 The ''kivered kyars' are here. Green Forest has been railroad town for a whole week, and the affectionate sounds emitted from the big locomotives are rapidly becoming familiar to the deni- zens hereabouts.
 Almost exactly at 12 o'clock, March 1, the construction train moved up in front of the Green Forest depot. The switches were put in Friday afternoon. Since that time almost every hour in the day there have been one or two trains passing or side- tracked in the Green Forest yards, load ed with construction material.
 It is hardly necessary to state that the event of laying the rails which connect Green Forest with the outside world with mighty bands of steel was with essed by many people. It seemed that the whole country was there, in- cluding many people from Berry vile and other nearby points; and the depot is yet a popular center of attraction for the people.
 It is hard for the old timer to be brought to the realization of the fact that we are surely in possession of the long-looked for and much-coveted railway outlet. It really seems too good to be true.
 In laying the track into Green Forest it was a matter of here it comes and wonder it goes. Be- fore Friday nights sun had set, the track laying crew had sped away considerable distance on it's journey to Harrison.
 The great track laying device used by the company is in itself quite an interesting sight. The system that is employed by the workmen is almost wonderful. The rails are placed on the car s at Eureka Springs by system that arranges each rail for the individual place it is to fill. Each curve is thoroughly understood and the rail bent by a machine that is adjusted to give itthe exact degree of curvature that the place it is to occupy demands.
 Some seven or eight cars are loaded with rails, being heaped up on either side. In the center of the entire train are so many rollers upon which four rails are placed at time, two being bolted together, making a length of sixty feet. These rails are run up together by hand to the front end of the construction train where stands small army of men to take hold upon command and drop into position. Then the guages are set, and all togeth- CT with hammer and spikes nail the rails to the ties in consider ably less time than it takes to tell about it. A signal to the engi- neer moves the train up another 60 feet, and the job is repeated. In advance of the train goes a crew, placing the ties in position to receive the rails. Of course, this process leaves the track far from complete. Several crews of hands follow up this train, leveling, strengthening, putting in missing spikes, bolts, etc. There are perhaps 150 men employed, all told.
 A regular boarding train is brought up as fast as the various sidings are reached, which fur nishes eating and sleeping facili- ties for all the employees. These cars and the construction train, as well as two engines used Tn the work, are the property of the Frisco system.
 Favorable weather will un- doubtedly enable the com pany to lay the steel into Harri- son before the end of the month, when regular train service will be commenced.
 AS yet there has been nothing done toward the building of a telegraph line. In fact, it is