Gandy Dancers

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know anything about gandy dancers in Georgia? Any resources would be helpful.

[mersenne6]

While not about Gandydancers in Georgia there is the book Gandydancers Children which is a son's account of his Dad's work and his life growing up in the family of a gandydancer. Since they lived in RR company housing which was practically situated right next to the mainline it does have some good descriptions of the life and the work.

[Anonymous]

Also not about Georgia, but the first (steam) version of the SP film "This is My Railroad", rereleased on video a number of years back, includes sound footage of a section gang out tamping in Louisiana and doing the "gandy dance" to what sounds amazingly like an old fieldworkers' chant.