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Modern locomotives have what appear to be a set of wings on the rear of the lococomotive with a large grille on top of the wings. These are used for "dynamic" braking. Basically the electric drive motors are run backwards as generators/brakes sending current to a huge array of resistors under the grille. This dissipates the energy as heat.