That phrase conjures visions of a dedicated work train with crew cars and an Industrial Brownhoist or Bucyrus Erie crane being dispatched to the site of trouble. By the 1980’s, however, wreck trains were rapidly going the way of the steam locomotive and the cab unit. Railroads began to either acquire hi-rail wreck equipment, or outsource cleanup tasks to contractors like Hulcher. Here, after a sideswipe incident between a pair of GP9’s and an SW1200RS, a Canadian National hi-rail crane gets to work straightening out the mess.
