A specialized set of portable steel castings used by carmen and train crews to rerail a piece of rolling stock that has dropped a wheel off the railhead. The devices are spiked or clamped to the ties and rail so that when the locomotive pulls the derailed car, the wheels climb the ramp and drop back onto the running rail.
Heard on the job
Grab the replacing switch from the truck, the lead truck on this boxcar is sitting in the dirt.
Also heard as
- rerailer
- replacer
- camelback