DCHP-3

steel gang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the workmen responsible for laying the tracks in railway building.

Quotations

1910
But they were watching it and as soon as the 'steel gang' of a projected railway came within measurable distance they meant to claim their sections and work their land together.
1958
In the old days, it kept a steel gang hopping to lay 90 rails a day.
1963
The steel gang lived in railway cars, pulled up by a locomotive along one or two miles of the track they had laid that day.