Creative interpretations: Train coming around curve

[Steve Conway]

Anybody know what a Gandy Dancer is?

Steve

[Swampy]

Great train shot!

I just wanted to put this train on a less cluttered background. Set it FREE!! LOL

[palms1]

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Anybody know what a Gandy Dancer is?

Steve

Well as a gander is a male goose could it be a sort of dance done by geese ?
nice post Steve not sure of the texture though

Swampy brilliant background change


Palms

[Jerryb]

hi,
a gandy dancer, train workers who lay and repair rails use a tool call a gandy, basically a specialized oversized crowbar... use to move the rails inplace..... well those rails are pretty heavy and it would some times take several men, working in unison to move the rail all at once... now men would generally be singing a little tune to help them syncronize there work with other.. over time these men would be called gandy dancers..... ie; there singing and moving!

now your next question is probably where did the tool name gandy come from? smile... that I don't know.....!! nor does any one else... there a lot of theories..... but no facts... it lost in history on where the name came from...

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Anybody know what a Gandy Dancer is?

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Jerryb

hi,
a gandy dancer, train workers who lay and repair rails use a tool call a gandy, basically a specialized oversized crowbar... use to move the rails inplace..... well those rails are pretty heavy and it would some times take several men, working in unison to move the rail all at once... now men would generally be singing a little tune to help them syncronize there work with other.. over time these men would be called gandy dancers..... ie; there singing and moving!

now your next question is probably where did the tool name gandy come from? smile... that I don't know.....!! nor does any one else... there a lot of theories..... but no facts... it lost in history on where the name came from...

Very incisive reply.

Actually I knew the answer, and just wanted to see how many here did.

A singer by the name of Frankie Laine, years ago, had a hit recording called "The Gandy Dancers Ball." That's where I first became familiar with the term.

The generally accepted origin of the term came from the tool which was manufactured by the Gandy Tool Co.of Chicago. The "dancer" part, from the rhythm of the team of men pulling together to move the rails in place. Machines have long since taken over their jobs.

Steve

[Jerryb]

hi,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandy_dancer has a nice little article on it... as far as the gandy company.. according to there research they couldn't find no company with that name.... so one of histories mysteries..

and the gandy is still in use!!... they don't use it for putting in rail lines or very much like before..... but when there repairing a segment like replacing wood tie or new brackets and such.. they use it... I got that from a piece on discovery... smiling...!!

Originally Posted by Steve Conway

Very incisive reply.

Actually I knew the answer, and just wanted to see how many here did.

A singer by the name of Frankie Laine, years ago, had a hit recording called "The Gandy Dancers Ball." That's where I first became familiar with the term.

The generally accepted origin of the term came from the tool which was manufactured by the Gandy Tool Co.of Chicago. The "dancer" part, from the rhythm of the team of men pulling together to move the rails in place. Machines have long since taken over their jobs.

Steve

[palms1]

Thanks Steve and Jerryb something else i have learnt to day, quite interesting

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by Jerryb

hi,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandy_dancer has a nice little article on it... as far as the gandy company.. according to there research they couldn't find no company with that name.... so one of histories mysteries..

and the gandy is still in use!!... they don't use it for putting in rail lines or very much like before..... but when there repairing a segment like replacing wood tie or new brackets and such.. they use it... I got that from a piece on discovery... smiling...!!

Did see the article to which you refer. Seems to be a lot of controversy regarding the Gandy Co., but a lot of people writing about railroading mention this company. Too bad no one can find if it really existed. Coud be the company name was not Gandy, but did make the Gandy tool.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Originally Posted by palms1

nice post Steve not sure of the texture though

Palms

I know...I know...you expected a flowered texture.

I could have found a better one probably, but I thought a rough texture for a rough subject might work.

Steve

[Swampy]

Thank you, Palms. :-)

[pavel123]

Photoshop/Painter

[bev from oz]

Hi Danny and group havent been around anywhere much lately but couldnt resist this, thanks Bill great shot thought id do a pencil sketch impressionist of course..................

[DannyRaphael]

Interesting history on "gandy dancer." Well done.

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I really like this pic. It's fun going back to see an interpretation you did a while back and compare how you did it "then" to "this time":
* A copy of the Background was simplified using Buzz Simplifier 2
* Akvis > sketch was applied to get the edges
* I stole Swampy's idea and replaced the blah sky with something more interesting (Google Images search)
* Impressionist plugin for the color strokes
* Hue/Saturation and Selective Color adjustment layers for some color variation

[Wiz]

"Take the Midnight Express to Istanbul!" ;-)

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Wiz

"Take the Midnight Express to Istanbul!" ;-)

Great colors and concept.

Think I'd rather be on the Midnight Express "out of" Istanbul, myself.

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