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5631/ 5655 then 100 empty iron ore cars then 4310/ 4302 Mid Train DPU locos then another DPU 100 empty iron ore cars at the 122.2 km point on the BHP Railway on 11 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
Enhanced 2nd go, using some of the tools on photo editing with the clouds NR107/ ACC6031 are the mid train DPU locomotives on 3031P loaded iron ore to Esperance passing Binduli on 10 May 2022. Photo: Phil Melling.
DPU units bring up the rear of this westbound stack train. It must have taken an hour and a half to reach Kelso 20 miles away at the bottom of the grade.
Three DPU's shove on the rear of BNSF train C-WTMPAM1-15AC at 30th St. as they train leaves KCT trackage and enters the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub for the trip south out of town. For the DP's we have one of the ten 25th Anniversary ES44AC's and a pair of SD70MAC's, one Heritage II and the other in BN's Executive paint scheme. The power on the head end of this train was an SD70MACe and an SD70ACe, making for a fairly interesting set of a power for a BNSF coal train these days, made up mostly of EMD's.
I generally avoid shooting DPU's, but I figured it was worth it this time with this set of power. This angle from up on the hill provided a nice broadside view. 5/14/22.
CSX B241 (Chicago, IL CN - Tampa, FL)
CN AC44C6M 3302
CN ET44AC 3219
CN AC44C6M 3364 (DPU)
CN ET44AC 3071 (DPU)
Sheboygan empties roll south by Grafton. Because of a blue card issue on what was supposed to be the lead unit, they ran LHF to Butler
A DPU trails the UP 7442 West loaded coal train at Clover Creek Canyon, Nevada east of Caliente on the Caliente Subdivision on November 11, 2018.
ACN4141/ ACN4151 the rear DPU locos on 7762 empty Karara iron ore passing Separation Point on 28 January 2023. Photo: Phil Melling.
A light snow falls on Thanksgiving morning as a pair of H2 motors shove on the rear of a manifest train as it crests the hill on the west side of Fraser. UP Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Fraser, CO. November 24, 2022.
Dedicated Pushing Unit. Thrilling, huh? I often wait for the DPU as a heritage unit might be assigned that role.
Most trains on the RF&P have their DPUs in the middle of the train, but M422 is more likely than most other northbounds to have a rear-end DPU. This day's train is no exception, and provides an excuse for a bonus shot of the engine shoving its train north toward Baltimore.
Mid train DPU CM40-8M 5645 and SD40-R 3097 with another 100 ore cars to Nelson Point at Redbank Bridge in Port Hedland on 10 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
Something new Norfolk Southern is doing out of Norfolk, Va is putting mid DPU's on their hopper trains. Here NS 821 heads west under the coaling tower in Vicker, Va with a pair of DPU's.
Norfolk Southern EMD SD70ACe No. 1178 holds down the rear DPU position behind over 9,000 axles of a double BNSF grain empty curving though the flying snow between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on February 6, 2021.
4308/ 3090 mid train DPU locos then another 100 empty iron ore cars at the 183.2km point on the BHP Railway on 11 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
UP 8526 pushes on the back of a westbound manifest climbing the grade to Erda, UT. This is literally the only train I've been able to catch since buying my DJI Mavic Pro last week, and even this one showed up with little warning.
Union Pacific 2539, 1982, 6851 and 6740 make a slow move out of the roundhouse lead track 116 and prepare to shove back into a 300 track as the train slowly starts to get built in the Departure Yard. UP 2539 will become the rear DPU once all the cars get into position, and UP 1982 would eventually lead this Portland bound Manifest train north in the early morning. As the train has to make a MoW Window on the Mojave Subdivision the train will head north at a good pace until the train derailed two cars at Caliente which slowed things down quite a bit.
The rear DPUs on Q-CHITAC6-15A snake through the yard lead at St. Anthony. They will perform work to the west of this location for a little while before continuing west.
5651/ 5667 mid train DPU locos then 100 iron ore cars north of Hesta on 11 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
ACN4141/ ACN4151 the rear DPU locos on 7762 empty Karara iron ore passing through Narngulu West on 28 January 2023. Photo: Phil Melling.
DPUs (distributed power units) mid-train assisting NS 15T's head-end motive power with a 10,000 foot train, about to cross over the Potomac River into Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Awaiting a route into the Houston Terminal, this pair of GEs sits on Main 1 of the Glidden Sub southwest of Houston in Sugar Land. Soon things will clear and they'll get their 18,000 tons of rock moving again.
RMEMTQ 22 (Rock- Medina, TX to Mont Belvieu, TX)
(DPU) UP C45AH #2536
(DPU) UP C44ACM #6346
Sugar Land, TX
December 23rd, 2022
Dynamic breaks howl as the rear DPU units on 38G enter the Allegheny Tunnel. The entire train is just about over the summit of the mountain at this point.
Operating as a mid-train DPU, a Canadian Pacific AC44 slides across Plankinton Avenue in downtown Milwaukee on a damp, chilly night.
Mid train DPU locos CM40-8MEFI 5666 and SD40-2 3082 DPU lead another 100 empty iron ore cars leaving Port Hedland on 10 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
Mid train DPU locos 5651/ 5667 then another 100 iron ore cars seen north of Hesta on 11 August 2006. Photo: Jim Bisdee.
Union Pacific's Missouri Pacific Heritage SD70ACe was the rear DPU on train Q-NPPR as it arrived at Proviso Yard in nice afternoon light. It's been a while since I last shot this thing, so it was worth a few frames. After all, the sun was shining and it was facing the correct way.
Rear DPU (distributed power unit) on NS train 055 (unit train of pipe loads) passing through Boyce, Virginia on May 22, 2024.
374's DPU slides down the main as the train heads down grade into Letts while 475's crew inspects the roll-by.
Letts, IA
2020.07.11
This is a CN train running on CP's tracks in the directional running area of the Thompson/Fraser canyons. There was, of course, another engine on the head end of this train. In this photo you are looking at the unmanned tail end DPU.
BNSF 8105 brings up the rear of an eastbound grain train as it moves across the Pend Oreille River in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Rear DPUs of a Union Pacific train of gons loaded with riprap shoves the westbound train into Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on September 27, 2019. The train is bound for the North Fork branch out of Grand Junction.
DPUs on the rear of Norfolk Southern loaded coal train 740 at Bentonville, Virginia, October 28, 2020.
Job 42 is at the north end of Itasca yard in Superior where they will leave the trailing unit and build MITDM-16 on top of it.