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Post by Jerec on Nov 7, 2003 18:11:41 GMT -5
Most of you are probably wondering why under your names, "Gandy Dancer" is written. This forum has ranks, so to say. You go from Gandy Dancer to Fireman in 20 posts. If you get 40 posts, you are an Engineer. You need 100 to be a Brass Hat, and 500 to be a Railroad President. It's a little fun addition we added in.  We are very pleased on how well this forum project is going  Keep posting!! |
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Post by brian on Dec 4, 2003 22:05:39 GMT -5
I get it, I'll just have to write a few things off to people to get out of this track-worker stigma. I've built a few tracks in my day. brian
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Post by XGIHavoc on Apr 10, 2004 14:30:59 GMT -5
What the heck is a Gandy Dancer?  |
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Post by Jerec on Apr 10, 2004 14:36:01 GMT -5
Trackk builder.
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Post by Bluechips on May 23, 2004 14:27:49 GMT -5
Post, Post, Post!! The job of a Gandy dancer never ends!
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Post by jwclarke on Dec 11, 2004 22:56:48 GMT -5
;D well if there werent any gandy dancers ther wouldnt be any trains
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Post by pockets on Jun 30, 2005 21:50:01 GMT -5
Ok, howcome ....I have four posts in a thread over in the Kozo support group, and they all say I have 11 posts. They said this 2 posts ago.
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Post by hobo on Jul 11, 2005 11:20:56 GMT -5
i just wana be hobo
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Post by locodan5416 on Jul 15, 2005 22:01:04 GMT -5
then we're going to get the railroad police,
at cinncy during the steam era and depression, lots of hobos would be riding the rails trying to go out west or south, etc. before a train would leave cinncy, the railway police would fire 2 shots in the air, and all the hobos would run off
okay so theres no real reason for this post, just trying to increment my posts up by 1
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Post by gwrdriver on Jun 11, 2007 13:02:35 GMT -5
Every board I belong to (many) is set up this way . . . . QUANTITY is more hightly regarded than QUALITY. I suppose it's the age we live in.
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Post by steamingspud on Dec 11, 2007 20:32:31 GMT -5
"i just wana be hobo"
Quoted from Hobo.
Well said...
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Post by Dan Rowe on Nov 13, 2008 17:49:13 GMT -5
I do not mind being a gandy dancer, or a fireman, or an engineer, as I have been all but the first one professionally on ships.
But I do not want to be a Brass Hat. In my book that is a demotion as engineers consider them useless. ;D
How about shop foreman or Chief Mechanical Officer.
Cheers Dan
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Post by Harlock on Nov 13, 2008 20:38:06 GMT -5
At one point I had a similar thought. But without the Brass Hats, the engineers wouldn't have a job... We do have the capability to change those titles and add new ones if we really feel like it.  --Mike |
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Post by kwoodhands on Sept 22, 2009 18:21:35 GMT -5
My grandfather was a gandy dancer during the depression with the WPA. The gandy dancers drove the pins that held the track to the timber. They swung short handled sledge hammers,one on each hand to drive the pins.
These men had forearms like popeye.
mike
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Post by George on Jun 21, 2010 1:29:56 GMT -5
This count of posts seems fair enough to me. It might be nice to have a utility in the "modify profile" section that would allow me to upload something for an avatar.  |
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Keep posting!!
