St Olaf College - Viking Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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The coming of the railroad in the sixties was a big event in the liues of Northfield cizizensg to them it meant quicker and easier transpor- tation of farm produce and flour from the mills.

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ADMINISTRATION :ali X K f f I Z If 4- 'W ff f ian 'XX 1 ,FQ f...-,-, , qfnv 7 ' C: I1-ll f at WW 5 I it h 'X fl F 'll 'Illia a , fi , -7 I I if V ' - if , 7 If 'fl Y V 1 ' - 'X Lf' gil Iqr t V cf 5:9 X 14- ,, , . , , Taq' I T ffl 441, fy tl, Wi , I V fl, K T 'W' M f e-f The iron road leads on and on: twin lines Of steel laid down by straining, sweat-stained men, W'ho brought the crushing hammer to the rock, Laid paths in timberlands, and hip-deep, Wallowed in swamp-muck, through heat of day and chill Of nightg and something more than dirt and stone IVent in the heaping of the bed . . . the wood And iron bar crawled Ong soon afterwards A harnessed Titan rumblea' by and left, As with a sootg finger, in the sky An inkg scrawl: the signal smoke of marching Time. Then cities, one by one, were threaded on The double lineg and country towns touched hands, And strengthened, grew, and burst their platted bounds, Ana' watched the iron road go on and on and on.