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Gandy dancers are celebrated in The Gandy Dancer Festival, in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. [35] The Ann Arbor (Michigan) railroad station was converted into a restaurant called the Gandy Dancer. Folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (aka Lead Belly), sang about the work of the gandy dancer in the lyrics of an unaccompanied work song, "Linin' Track".
Gandy Dancer State Trail in Webster, Wisconsin. The trail follows the old Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad grade from St. Croix Falls to Superior.The trail is divided up into a north and south segment with the southern segment accounting for 47 miles all in Wisconsin and the northern segment accounting for 51 miles in both Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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N. of WI 187 crossing of Shioc R. Bovina: Large stone arch bridge across the Shioc River with four limestone arches. Designed by John Hayes of Appleton, who designed most of the early stone-arch bridges in the county, and built by James Garvey in 1905-06.
The only way that I ever heard "gandy dancer" used was to refer to the men who laid the tracks and specifically those who hammered the stakes into the ties. In the handcar article itself under Modern Usage, I consider the parenthetic reference to gandy dancers to be incorrect, or at best misleading. RoseHawk 22:02, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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By the 1960s, passenger service had slowed to a trickle, and in 1970 the railroad sold the station to restaurateur Chuck Muer, who converted the station into a restaurant, the Gandy Dancer. [3] In 1976, the restaurant was expanded, enclosing the space between the main depot and the former baggage station.