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extra gang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in railway construction, a gang of laborers employed for various kinds of heavy work, usually involving road-bed repairs, replacement of rails or ties, and other work not handled by the section crew.

Quotations

1923

He had all the ties hauled up the grade the night before, and he brought up an 'extra' gang of men.

1927

There was what was called an Extra Gang there, employed upon shovelling gravel out of a hillside into dump-cars that took it away to fill in gulches under trestle bridges.

1954

. . . the speech of the Boukovinian homesteaders made constant reference to their experience on the extra gang.

1966

I was a gandy-dancer on the extra gang lifting and reballasting the main line in the McAdam, N.B., subdivision.