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rerailing

British  
/ riːˈreɪlɪŋ /

noun

  1. the replacement of existing rails on a railway line

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“Contractors are on site to fully respond to the incident, and rerailing of the cars should take several hours,” Ciuba said.

From Seattle Times

Late Friday workers used cranes and rerailing machines to remove the derailed cars from the tracks.

From Washington Times

Whether he was righting a tender, rerailing an engine, tearing out a car-body, or swinging a set of trucks into the clear, Sinclair, men said, had 6 luck, and no confusion in day or night was great enough to drown his heavy tones or blur his rapid thinking.

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