Smoke Them Butts! Working the SE Yard Job, a butthead switcher puts on a smoke show as it switches a long string of tank cars in the yard. Not only are these type switchers a rarity in... (more)

The work train crew prepares to get ready for a move, and blueish white EMD smoke plumes from the stacks as this oddball of a locomotive revs up.

The two B40-8W units strain to pull the freight up the incline at Burns Junction.

I am not sure......but I think I heard the engineer (Ralphie's Dad) in 517 yell "It's a clinkerrrrr!". That hydrant might come in handy.

The trailing SD45 (DMVW 7517) on this loaded corn train puts out a bit of smoke as its notched up coming into Falkirk ND.

Operating long-hood forward, a solo 4-axle Alco continues southbound with a short cut of cars on a chilly fall morning. The crew has to shift out Turtlepointe as well as pick up three units from P... (more)

Smoke pours from the tunnel as four EMD's begin to emerge hauling a loaded coal train for the Homer City power plant.

Locomotives:
BPRR 3333 SD40-3
BPRR 458 SD45-2
WCOR 6072 SD40-... (more)

A solo C430 running long hood forward passes underneath the retired PRR signal bridge just south of the New York border. This unit has has had its fair share of paint as it was originally built fo... (more)

A pair of LA&L Alcos put out some smoke as they work the yard in Avon.

Locomotives:
LAL 428 C425
LAL 420 C420

BNSF 573 (B40-8W) engages the turbo afterburner to muscle a heavy load out of the bowl in the Denver Yard. Is it me......or does that turbo fire look....'happy'?

I think the technical term for this is 'No Bueno'. The turbo on BNSF 573 (B40-8W) is blowing flame as it pulls a heavy load out of the Denver Yard.

After working the yard in Avon, a pair of LA&L Alcos put out some smoke as they head south.

Locomotives:
LAL 428 C425
LAL 420 C420

A pair of GE B23-7's in New York Central inspired paint lead the west bound sweep job past a small grain industry in Waterloo, NY.

Locomotives:
FGLK 2310 B23-7
FGLK 2309 B23-7

72A pours out some smoke accelerating upgrade out of Jasper, headed from Yuma to Big Stone Gap.

You can still find former Burlington Northern SD40-2's working the Denver Yard sorting freight cars.