This kind of product for putting derailed trains back on track is known in known in North America simply as a “rerailer,” and locomotives working on substandard track, such as that found on logging railroads, for which much of the track might be temporary, carried on the engine itself. — George P. Landow
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Bibliography
Railway Times. 32 (1869): 219. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 4 September 2018.
Last modified 4 September 2018