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American English?[edit]

I think a note needs to be made about the term 'trackman' as it's very commonly on the railway in the UK for a platelayer/track worker to be called a trackman. Zozzie 9t9 (talk) 10:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite?[edit]

The Gandy dancer article covers this subject matter in some depth, albeit from a US perspective. It mentions the official North American term of "section hand", which has also been the standard term in Canada since early times. In British Columbia for instance, the "section" was that 8 miles or so of track maintained by the "section gang", who lived in the "section house". Perhaps a rewrite could move the mechanics of track maintenance from the Gandy dancer article into this one, so that the Gandy dancer one purely deals with the uniqueness of that terminology. DMBanks1 (talk) 15:02, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]