The Livingston Lumber Company operated a tram road in it support of its mill at Buck (Zimmerman), two miles north of Livingston. Keeling noted that one geared and four rod locomtoives operated on the ten-mile track. The logging tram operation employed a locomotive named the �Old One Hundred.�

The Polk County Enterprise reported in 1908 that a tramroad wreck on August 6, 1908, killed five and injured four. According to the writer, �This was the worst wreck that has ever happened in East Texas.� The engine, pulling eight logging cars at a speed of fifty miles per hours, hit a cow, derailed, and plowed ahead for one hundred yards into a small trestle bridge, tearing up the tracks and destroying the bridge. The locomotive landed in the bed, throwing debris in all directions.

E. B. Rice, a white night watchman at the Front, was slightly injured. He pulled Finnis Peebles out from the engine cab, then Brack Hickman, a white sawyer, who died two days later. Peebles, a white commissary clerk, somehow walked a half mile to his aunt’s house, where he collapsed and died. Rice was unable to get to Fayette Rogers, a teamster, and Watson Scott, the engineer, �who were both wedged and jammed under the cab of the engine.� Rice heard Rogers and Scott, both African-Americans, pleading for help as they were scalded to death from the steaming water �pouring in on them from the engine, . .�. Henry Young, an African-American brakeman, also died. The injured included, besides Rice, Rice’s nephew, Charlie Clark, who suffered bruises and a broken collar bone; and two other African-Americans, Sam Sipp with a bruised and cut lip, and Wise Carter, a fireman, with scald burns.