Up the Bystrica valley behind the town ran a narrow-gauge forest railway, built to bring logs down from the watershed, and in the 1920s it was joined across the ridge to the forest system on the Orava side. To climb the last stretch to the Beskyd saddle at 935 metres without tunnels or spirals, the engineers used switchbacks: the train runs up a dead-end leg of track, stops, changes direction and climbs the next leg, gaining height in a zigzag staircase up the hillside. Lorries and forest roads made all of it uneconomic, and logging traffic ended around 1970. About eleven kilometres over the saddle were saved, and today the line is a national cultural monument worked by steam between Vychylovka and Tanečník — one of very few switchback railways left anywhere in the world. It survived for an unromantic reason: it closed late enough that there were still people who thought the loss would matter, and who were willing to do the work themselves.Hore Bystrickou dolinou za mestom viedla úzkokoľajná lesná železnica, postavená na zvoz dreva spod rozvodia, a v dvadsiatych rokoch ju cez hrebeň spojili s lesnou sústavou na oravskej strane. Na posledné stúpanie do sedla Beskyd vo výške 935 metrov použili stavitelia namiesto tunelov a slučiek úvrate: vlak vyjde na slepé rameno koľaje, zastaví, zmení smer a stúpa po ďalšom — výšku naberá po cikcakovitom schodisku svahom. Nákladné autá a lesné cesty urobili z celej trate nerentabilnú vec a zvoz dreva sa skončil okolo roku 1970. Zachránilo sa asi jedenásť kilometrov cez sedlo a dnes je trať národnou kultúrnou pamiatkou s parnou prevádzkou medzi Vychylovkou a Tanečníkom — jednou z mála úvraťových železníc, ktoré na svete zostali. Prežila z celkom neromantického dôvodu: zanikla dosť neskoro na to, aby ešte žili ľudia, ktorým na tej strate záležalo a boli ochotní pustiť sa do práce sami.
