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After a bad wreck, when the cars "swap ends", the railroad would often build a "shoo-fly" track, which is simply a temporary track around the mess. Trains pass around the wreck at a restricted speed, like 10 mph, because the shoo-fly is a bit sharper in alignment , and also because there are men working all around the wreckage. Shoo-flies have been photographed in use, and have been shown in books or magazines. They aren't used much anymore, as the bulldozers or "sidewinders" have replaced them. The RR wants to get the road opened as soon as possible, and dozers just pu***he wreckage aside. The new replacement track is treated as a shoo-fly, because of the unsettled nature of it, often with little or no ballast at first, with speed restrictions, etc. I've seen track panels [just full-size Atlas Snap-Track] used for this. Then the damaged cars are removed at the RR's leisure while the big freights are rolling again. Later, the rough, quick track is built up and made first rate. Eventually, the speed restrictions are removed as the new track settles and the activity at that spot drops off.
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