After dropping there train of empty well cars at the end of the Snowflake Branch, 3 Apache units head back west light engines as they smoke it up in the late afternon sun.
With quite a smoke show, a heavy southbound manifest gets underway after holding in the Sag, north of Palmer Lake for Northbound traffic to clear.
Earning Its Keep: Nearly 58 years after it was built as No. 128 for the Northern Pacific, Watco SW1200 No. 1214 is still earning its for the Mission Mountain Railroad. On May 29, 2013, No. ... (more)
A must see (and ride) visit to the Northwoods of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. Here, former Milwaukee Road 1616, an SW-1 built in 1940, rolls the family pizza train Northward... (more)
The Apache freight from Holbrook to Snowflake gets underway late in the day on March 7, 2005, leaving Holbrook, Arizona, in a smokescreen that would make a warship commander proud. The conductor s... (more)
On a muggy spring day, 1952 built former G&J nee D&H 4116 smokes it up as it departs Eagle Bridge with loads for Caroval and Cargill Feed in Salem. The tank cars contain liquid urea used to mix... (more)
An Alco S6 and an MLW S13 have a long train of autoracks in tow as they smoke their way through downtown Ingersoll, ON, right before sunset. The racks were just pulled from the CN interchange and ... (more)
This is the same type of crude oil train that derailed and exploded at Lac-Megantic in July 2013. How long before these tired workhorses are withdrawn from service. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the smo... (more)
L75 has just gotten the signal across the CSX diamonds and pours out the smoke as he heads West.
The engineer on GE22 knocks the throttle back upon getting a clear at East Point and covers downtown East Point in a blanket of EMD smoke.
In a pouring rain shower, a rare doubleheader chuffs upgrade out of Eagle Bridge with some loads from Pan Am in a scene right out of the 1950's.
Rocking the diesel plume! Two vintage vehicles, which would you rather own?
For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)Locomotive: EMD GP9Location: Romney, West Virginia, USALocomotive #: BO 6604Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: March 23, 2013
GEXR 9392 leads GEXR 431 through Limehouse with notch 8 locomotives leaving some exhaust smoke.
Three Burlington Northern GE C30-7s smoke it up at Tamora, Nebraska, on the morning of July 2, 1988. The train held the main for a meet, and is now bringing the coal loads back into motion, while ... (more)
UP 695 makes smoke as it pulls a string of rusty hoppers out of the 36th Street Yard.
