That was my job on the railroad for 30 years....to re-rail freight cars and engines by either pulling them back on or lifting them back on...then repairing them once they made it back into the shop......made a LOT of overtime doing that but it usually was in the worst weather you could imagine.
I was the driver for our 90 ton Pettibone over the road crane and derrick engineer for our 250 ton over the rail steam crane. But I also sometimes worked as the cook when the steam crane went out. As cook I did more work but I always enjoyed cooking, plus I stayed WARM in the winter.