For the early Swedish settlers of Stockholm, seeds, farm equipment  and funds provided by the State were necessary to survive the first few seasons in their new home.  To repay their debts, the men of the community worked at building roads for the government. However, carving a passable road out of the wilderness often seemed an impossible task.  

Workers show off the tools they used to carve the road they dubbed "Fo Fanger" -- the Impossible Road -- now called Lake Road.

A generation later, the men of Stockholm helped to build roads that served a different sort of horse -- the Iron horse. 

Olaf Olson, A Stockholm man who worked on the railroad in the 1920s, described his duties in verse:

"We stop, look, listen, inspect and trim,            

At four siding fuel eight switch lamps to the brim,

Depending on our care."

(Exerpt from Swedish Poem "Jarnvagaminnen" Translated by Louis P. Larsson)

This Road Crew included Oscar Johnson (far right)