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Distributed Power Unit

CSX 3001 running as a DPU in the middle of a long train heading north over the Ohio River on the L&I RR Bridge. All 5 of the McAlpine Dam's upper Tainter gates were open partway flooding the fossil beds.

In the UK and Australia, these helper engines are called "Banking Engines" or "Bankers".

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Uploaded on February 7, 2021
Taken on February 6, 2021