No sooner had the earth-moving equipment filled up the trench and leveled the earth below the loco than the track construction group moved in quickly -- men carrying wooden sleepers, some dragging the new rail, yet others nailing the rail holders on to the sleepers, a couple of them tightening the fish-plates and one lone man verifying the gauge -- to quickly extend the temporary track right below the dangling loco. This track was extended such that the three pairs of wheels of the bogie towards the crane end and at least one pair of wheels of the bogie on the other side would rest on the newly laid rails.