Gandy Dancers Traditional Cache
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The cache is located along the well maintained Ontario Pathways. Please do not try to remove the cache container. Just take the lid off. It is a cammoed match stick container. Please bring your own pen or pencil. Obey the trail rules and they are open from dawn to dusk.
The Ontario Pathways trail is built on abandoned railroad beds. Although the rails are no longer here there are remnants of them along the Ontario Pathway. I watched modern machinery replacing ties and rails a few years ago along some active lines but some things still had to be done by brute strength. I found out that these workers are still called Gandy Dancers but machines do most of the work. Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers who laid the rails and ties by hand. There are various origins of the term Gandy dancers but it is still most popularly known as the men who did the difficult physical work of track maintenance under the direction of an overseer. There are lyrics and songs they sang as they worked to keep in cadence with handling the rails or driving the spikes. Read about Gandy dancers and as you walk along the trail try to picture the scene of crews laying the rails and singing the songs.
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cnfg cbfg 6 , whfg bss gur genvy
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