Thanks for sharing,
I could almost feel the humidity and smell the creosote and tar in the ties.
Don MacDougall
UK.
--- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisin...@...> wrote:
>
> Not sure it is of much interest to this group, but if you are interested in
> the more personal and anthropological side of this, some years ago there was
> a 30 minute documentary by a film maker named Barry Dornfeld on "real" Gandy
> Dancers. It details a time when it was hard physical labor done by
> African-Americans on the railroad. The short documentary contains first
> person accounts and the songs, chants, etc. used - some pretty racy for the
> time.
>
> Neat stuff if you like history and folk lore. I have a copy of the tape but
> I'm not sure if they were ever available generally. The link lets you see
> some of it, but don't bother if you are looking for a lot of "wooo-wooo"
> trains and S scale content...
>
> http://www.folkstreams.net/film,101
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "garydmccullah" <garymccullah@> wrote:
> >
> > 'S' folk,
> > The video looks like part of a segment on the Pentrex video "Workin' On
> > the Railroad". The BNSF used this machine to set concrete ties on ...
> > <skip>
>
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