This gandy dancer is a machine

[ksouers]

Here is some interesting machinery used to repair railroads.

No more lines of gandy dancers fixing track by hand.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFE8nmKpmXY&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[ozzie46]

Aw man, They took all the fun out of it! : : : Right.


Ron

 

[putputman]

I love it. I wish we would do that with all our jobs instead of sending them to China.
When you look at the amount of engineering, manufacturing, and operation labor, in those high tech operations, we could keep a lot of jobs here.

I am not looking for a debate, I am just sick of all the inferior products I have to buy because we do not produce anything in the USA any more.

 

[Cedge]

Had the pleasure a few years ago of seeing the last of the Southern Railway Gandy dancers at work. Tough job and even tougher men with a proud working heritage. Sad day, that.... as they finished up their last mile of track before being mothballed into retirement. I only hope someone somewhere got all of those marvelous old timing chants recorded for posterity.

Rail maintenance machinery has always been a fascination to me. It took some real engineering to get all that function into such tight packages, not to mention doing so while retaining the ability to deliver so much brute force. Great video.

Steve

 

[dsquire]

Cedge

here are some Gandy Dancers for you. There are a couple of videos that are probably 30 minutes long.


Site with video on Gandy Dancers
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,101

Short preview of Gandy Dancers
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025QQwTwzdU[/ame]

Cheers

Don

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