The Claw!
Head-on, it looked a little like the Mothership.
It's amazing the amount of men and equipment out there within hours of the accident.
They were scooping the gravel out of the cars in order to topple them off the top of the railbed.
Taking out the gravel.
Scooping out the gravel.
These giant lights made night turn into day.
One of the cars.
On the left you can see sparks from the welders, who are separating the cars.
Two of the cars that had slid off the track.
Another view of the same two cars.
Three more cars that were off the track.
First they pulled the cars onto their sides to empty them, then they pulled them all the way over.
Pulling the car upside-down.
In the process of pulling the car upside-down.
Hard to see, but they've just pulled the car over so it's upside-down.
More aftermath.
The replacement track.
An upside-down car in the foreground, the good track on the left, and the replacement track on the right.
The track's been torn down, ready for removal.
Aftermath.
The wheels that are left from one of the cars that's been removed.
Placing the new rails.
More rebuilding.
More rebuilding.
More rebuilding the track.
Working on rebuilding the track.
The claw is lifting the track to be placed.
Putting down the new track.
At the top is where the tracks run, and where the problem happened that caused the cars to derail. The tracks have been removed and they will build new ones in this area.
There's another car left on the left-hand side.
One of the cars is still left the next morning.
After they've removed one of the cars by flatbed truck.
They're about to add gravel to the tracks - look at the big dip the rails take.
The track after it's been repaired.
The gravel train came from the town down the road. Look at how uneven the cars are - they haven't leveled the track yet.
They're adding gravel to the track to build it back up to its former level.
This machine grades the gravel that was added to build up the railbed after it was repaired.
This machine checks the rails to make sure they're level.
Aftermath.