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The hardest working units aren't running the country's mainlines, they're in the yards switching 24/7.
You're looking at a typical CN hump set:
GP38-2 mother lead (CN 7500 even)
HBU-4 hump booster unit aka slug (CN 500)
HBU-4 hump booster unit aka slug (CN 500)
GP38-2 mother trail (CN...
CSX yard job shoves a long cut of autoracks over the hump, and into the classification yard at CSX's Selkirk Classification Yard in Selkirk, NY. In the background you can see the bowl of the yard where the cars are classified for outbound trains. Canon EOS Elan 7, Fuji Provia 100F