Gee whiz people, he is holding his other glove!
What I find silly is what some people write into blogs! Whoever wrote that has no idea how much of a brake application the engineer has applied. It only takes less than a ten pound reduction to cause brakes to smoke like that if it is applied for a good length of time. And it is probably not the brake shoes smoking. Rather it is the oily dirt mess collected on wheels from journals and flange oilers smoking from the hot wheels. Many a time I have observed this happen when passing over flang oilers (read Rail Greasers).
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