Thought y'all might like this

Interesting for sure. Wonder if Boco did that up in Canada RR. Thanks for sharing

Amazing, wonder how many other occupations have disappeared? Kind of sad.

Outstanding

Very cool. All respect for those guys.

Thanks for posting.

That sounds like Charles Kuralt. I bet that's a segment from his On The Road show. The wife and I loved that show.

Realigning that curve was something else- I enjoyed this!

The Gandy Dancers got their name from a time when most of the hand tools they used were made by the Gandy Tool Co.

Retired 3yrs ago now ,,,,we used track jacks,,,, but very neat to watch that vid working on smaller steel .

Laid many miles of track in the mine. Mostly 60 and 85 pound rails. Laying out switches was the hard part.

As a railroader, that’s is a cool video. The Gandy Dancers were gone before my start date
but there are many stories of Gandy Dancers floating around. As stories go, it sounds like
some of them were real characters. Seems like you hear less and less
about them as time goes on and the old heads retire. Thanks for posting, Hadnt seen that one!

if your looking for some of the music , they have the Gandy dancer festival in Mazomanie WI each August
https://gandydancerfestival.org/

Great post Wolfdog. I slung a lot of rail, set and tapped ties, pounded spikes all by hand. At the end of the day we ate a lot of food and drank a lot of whiskey. Hard work but it was something I loved to do.

I had a pretty good eye for lining track.lined out a lot of sunkinks by hand on the Moosonee line over the years.Lined in a lot of kicked out joints on the high side of the curves too fairly regular track mtc on the jointed rail.Didnt need 20 men singing songs-5 men was good,with the caller yelling-"HEAVE!"
Foreman sighting out the spots-"TWO JOINTS AHEAD MEN-TO THE WEST".-Then-"CENTER BACK!

We only used the lining jacks when lining switches.