A busy subway tunnel where a derailment last week killed five passengers was reopened in time for Tuesday's post-Labor Day rush hour.

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Workers removed tons of wreckage, buttressed the roof with wooden posts to replace the steel pillars smashed by the train and rebuilt the tracks along the Lexington Avenue line, which serves 500,000 riders a day, authorities said.The accident Wednesday killed five and injured more than 145 passengers in New York's deadliest subway crash in 63 years.

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