section gang

Phil had seen a section gang go out in the morning.

Between jobs on section gangs the men returned to Greek Town.

Once outside, Phil threw off the brakes and then the foreman of the section gang brought his knowledge to bear on the situation.

The first had come to Utah in 1898 to work on section gangs and had turned to farming at the earliest opportunity.

One man laughed and told me I would need to contact a medium since the use of section gangs was abolished in the 1960s.

He placed most Mexicans on railroad section gangs under Japanese foremen.

They listened, in silent stupor, to a stream of profanity such as they had never heard from any section gang. "

Whatever their background, almost all Japanese began their life in America by working in fields or on railroad section gangs.

They had not come in yet, so the Circus Boy strolled over toward the station shortly after six o'clock waiting for the section gang to return.

Years ago it was occupied by a railroad section gang--in the days when section hands were largely itinerant Mexicans.

The Japanese were anxious to leave California and Daigoro had no difficulty manning railroad section gangs.

Section gang laborers-fugitive peons from Mexico--were contributing half their scanty wages.

An Italian D&RGW section gang under foreman Joe Bonacci, foregound, at Helper in the early 1900s.

Elmer had a moth-eaten plush cap over his ears, Frank exhibited absurd ear-muffs under a more absurd derby, and both had borrowed red flannel mittens from the section gang.

The local railroad staff included a complete section gang (right-of-way maintainers), a signal maintainer, an electrician, a station agent and shift operators, a trainmaster, a yardmaster, and several other tradesmen.

The Legion resented Greeks' establishing schools for their children, speaking their native language on the streets, reading Greek newspapers in coffeehouses, and leaving the mines, mills, and section gangs to enter business.

In the virginal days of 1905 section gangs went out to work on the railway line not by gasoline power but on a hand-car, a platform with two horizontal bars worked up and down like pump-handles.

The Hashimoto Company furnished section gang workers to the Western Pacific and to the Denver and Rio Grande and supplied them with imported Japanese foods, rice, and clothing.

The newer arrivals continued to be sent by Daigoro Hashimoto to section gangs and to the Utah Fuel Company mines in Sunny-side and other Carbon County coal camps.

Yet for the first fifteen years of the 1900s, the section gangs were the main source of employment for the Japanese; their foremen remained far longer with the railroads, some of them until Pearl Harbor.

As the section gang passed through Schoenheim at least ten times a week, hand-cars could have been no astounding novelty to Lulu, but she trotted beside him, and stared prettily, and caroled, "Oh, hon- est!

"But Dora's clothes just rear up on their hind legs and shout that she's a cowgirl, when she aint; and I'm sure I wouldn't be any funnier playing polo than you would be working in a section gang."

The greater number of Italians, however, lived in the Ogden area to work on section gangs for the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and the Lucin to Corinne route of the Southern Pacific.

Lancaster's origins as a settlement start with the Southern Pacific Railroad, which is believed to first use the name 'Lancaster', where a station house, locomotive watering facilities and section gang housing were built when the railroad laid track through the town's future location.

In episode 7 at time 16:30, a scene from the opening sequence of the anime Cromartie High School is recreated with a waist-high view of Junki and the Analysis Section gang strutting in formation down a hallway.