Last week, the child and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. We were wandering around Puyallup when we came upon a piece of public sculpture entitled Gandy Dancer by Jim Mattern. The child is normally scared of any human-like figures or statues so I was surprised when she walked up to him and allowed me to take her picture with him. As we were getting ready to leave we heard the music of Puyallup: a Burlington Northern locomotive and cars on its way to Sumner and beyond. So we took some photographs of the Gandy Dancer with the BNSF train in the background.[According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a gandy dancer is "a railroad maintenance worker. Also, a seasonal or itinerant worker."]
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