Work Train/ Bridges Betweeen

Earlier this summer, a work train took up some worn tracks and laid new ones, leaving the old rails in small piles.

Finally, last week (Friday, I think) a small train picked up the debris, and I just happened to catch the train under the bridge that crosses the highway outside Mount Albert. The train was travelling backwards, which I found intriguing.
Here the train was moving south on the other side of the bridge. (I was now on top of the bridge)

As you can see, a yellow tractor with a claw on a long arm was at the back of the train. The worker operating the claw made his job look easy, directing the tractor's arm out, grabbing the metal and carefully placing it in an open car.

Another worker worker was directing the operation, standing on the car just behind the engine. (You can't see him in this photo, but he was there, really he was!) Two other workers were inside the engine, one of them the engineer who was moving the train back and forth...mostly back. Not sure what the other worker was doing. ;-)

I'm assuming the old tracks will be melted down and made into new tracks. ;-)

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