Lidgerwood

Lidgerwood was a historic American engineering company famous for its boilers, winches, scrapers, hoists and cranes,[1] particularly ones that helped build the Panama Canal.

As the successor company is still in business it is probable that they continue to be used in the railroad industry for moving cars through current (2013) times.

Instead, a winch – known colloquially as "The Lidgerwood" on some railroads – would move the locomotive while cutting heads were mounted on brake shoe brackets and forced against the wheels.

In a locomotive maintenance facility of the steam engine era (until, generally, the mid-1950s in the US) the place where this was done was sometimes known as the "Lidgerwood Track".

to be moved from where it is deposited by erosion near the track to a place where the embankment has been eroded away, or a railroad may need to simply widen the cut and fill sections.