{"id":26898,"date":"2019-05-24T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26898"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:47:37","slug":"autos-east-with-mid-train-locomotives-csx-q264-at-cp79-3-digital-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/autos-east-with-mid-train-locomotives-csx-q264-at-cp79-3-digital-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Autos East with Mid-Train Locomotives: CSX Q264 at CP79\u20143 Digital Photos."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


In recent months CSX has adopted the practice of using distributed power on the former Boston & Albany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distributed power is essentially the application of radio-remote controlled locomotives positioned deep in a freight train and\/or at its end to reduce drawbar stress and improve starting and braking characteristics with very long\/heavy trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept dates to the 1960s, but much improved radio-controlled remote technology was introduced by GE-Harris in the 1990s where it has become standard operating practice, and the remote locomotives being known as distributed power units (DPUs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, to me it seems like a novelty on the Boston & Albany route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday (May 23, 2019), I made my first<\/em> photographs of a CSX train with a DPU working east of Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Gardner and I caught Q-264 (the loaded autorack train destined to East Brookfield) from the field of Route 67 near CP79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By B&A standards, this was an enormous train for just two modern GE diesels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I exposed these photographs using my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm f2.0 lens.
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Head-end of CSX Q264 east of Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Autoracks on the roll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mid-train DPU working hard on the grade up to Warren.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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