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Year
1993-05-30
Video Details
13:51; color; sound; S1664, CSX Crew and Gandy Dancers
Description
This video features railroad workers or "section hands" commonly referred to by the slang term "Gandy Dancers" demonstrating work songs used when laying rail track. Also features CSX workers at the Florida Folk Festival preparing the tracks used in the demonstration.
Corporate Subject
Geographic Subject
Personal Subject
Title
CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers
Subject
Work songs
Railroad work
A capella singers
Folk festivals
African Americans
Description
This video features railroad workers or "section hands" commonly referred to by the slang term "Gandy Dancers" demonstrating work songs used when laying rail track. Also features CSX workers at the Florida Folk Festival preparing the tracks used in the demonstration.
Date
1993-05-30
Video Category
5
Video Details
13:51; color; sound; S1664, CSX Crew and Gandy Dancers
Color
color
Video Sound
sound
Digitized
true
Thumbnail
/fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/S1664_CSXGandy.jpg
Subject - Person
Gandy Dancers, The
Subject - Corporate
Florida Folklife Program
CSX Transportation
Video Time
13:51
YouTube ID
J5gAEbBFdSs
Video Snippet
CSX crew install track and railroad workers demonstrate a "Gandy Dancer" work song...
Video Filename
S1664_CSX and Gandy Dancers.mp4
Geographic Term
White Springs (Fla.)
Hamilton County (Fla.)
Image URL
/fpc/memory/PhotographicCollection/video/S1664_CSXGandy.jpg
Chicago Manual of Style
CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers. 1993-05-30. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326303>, accessed 24 December 2024.
MLA
CSX Crew Installing Track and Gandy Dancers. 1993-05-30. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326303>