Gandy dancer
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title:
Gandy dancer
text:
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as section hands, who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
The British equivalents of the term gandy dancer are navvy, originally builders of canals, or inland navigations, for builders of railway lines, and platelayer for workers employed to inspect and maintain the track. In the Southwestern United States and Mexico, Mexican and Mexican-
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description:
Slang term for workers on railroad tracks
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandy_dancer
date created:
2004-10-10T22:27:35Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T04:01:54Z
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