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RCO 2783 001 met lege kolentrein in Ústí nad Labem-Střekov
ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM: de volgende dag werd Polen weer verlaten en werd er via Berlijn en Dresden naar Ústí nad Labem gereisd. Hier zou ik wederom twee nachten blijven, het hoofddoel was hier om wat leuke goederentreinen én lokgetrokken treinen vast te leggen langs de Elbe.
Omstreeks 16:20u bereikte ik Ústí en werd direct naar de fietsverhuur van CD Bike gegaan. Een fiets maakte het namelijk mogelijk om snel te kunnen verplaatsen naar weerszijden van de Elbe én om vanaf de accommodatie naar de stekken te gaan. Vanwege het mooie weer op deze donderdagavond werd na het dumpen van de spullen in het hotel direct naar Střekov gefietst. Hier hoopte ik naast wat goederentreinen ook de Regiojet uit Kólin vast te leggen.
Helaas was de RJ flink te laat, waardoor de zon dan achter de bergen zou zitten. Gelukkig was het tijdens het uurtje wachten langs de Elbe wel druk met goederentreinen. Zo ook even na zessen toen er een Voith Maxima van RCO met een lege Touax-kolentrein passeerde.
Datum: 4 augustus 2022 18:03u
Locatie: Koperníkova, Ústí nad Labem-Střekov
L106 trundles across Bear Creek after getting confirmation from a maintainer that the bridge is locked. Due to an odd combination of RCO issues with 8247 and a lack of power in Bayview, 8247 has been running on the 106 for a few days. Whether this becomes normal is unknown.
Freshly repainted BNSF 625 sits at the North Yard along Commercial Street in Springfield, MO. This former Santa Fe Warbonnet is now wearing BNSF's corporate scheme and is equipped with RCO equipment for remote control operations within the yards. This unit is destined for Northtown, MN after it finishes up here.
Ten years ago today DM&IR 403 is leading limestone loads up Proctor Hill and under Boundary Avenue. DMIR 403, IC 6262, and 6256 have 30 loads here on April 18, 2010. The 403 would end up working along the former MIssabe for several more years before CN would ship it out. It was eventually given RCO equipment in 2018 and sent up to work in Canada, usually in either Thunder Bay or Winnipeg.
It’s all about NW over at NS Oakwood Yard
Train: Oakwood RCO with NS 6143 (SD40-2)
Norfolk Southern Oakwood Yard, Detroit District
Allen Park, Michigan
NS 1628 is seen working the RCO job with a cut of autos at the west end of Oakwood Yard outside Detriot, MI. Jun 18, 2022
The one of maybe (3?) remaining SOO LINE painted GP38-2s left on Canadian Pacific’s roster, is seen here working the west of Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard on one of the many RCO jobs, with its mate CP 5107 (SD40-3). After dragging a long cut out of the bowl, they begin shoving back to kick more cars and dip under the UP Milwaukee Sub, as seen in the background. Taken: 7-18-23
The 4448 is equipped with RCO, so it’s chances of getting back on the main are slim to none, it’s definitely seen better days but at least we can still see SOO paint in 2023.
The sun is rising over Cincinatti as 3 of CSX’s RCO jobs sift through the mass of cars in Queensgate Yard. Really neat to watch.
Train(s): CSXT 8242 (SD40-2), CSXT 8220 (SD40-2), CSXT 8467 (SD40-2)
CSXT Queensgate Hump Yard
Cincinatti, Ohio
More CSX greatness from the year of 2019, as Louisville, KY originated train Q24416 hustles through curve at Willow Creek, IN with former RCO hump unit CSXT 2428 (ex L&N SD40-2) leading re-built CSXT 4056 (SD40-3). The train would divert off the CSX Garrett Sub onto the CSX Porter Branch here at Willow Creek for the rest of their westward journey for Indiana Harbor Belt’s Gibson Yard. Taken: 6-18-19.
The Q244s used to be a somewhat reliable train for EMDs on CSX, this was also the last time it took the long way via the B&O, before being changed to L&N side and a year later abolished due to COVID and changed to Q352. Not sure if 2428 is still an active unit or not, could be one of the many units CSX has stored in Cumberland, MD.
G091 rambles through CG with a pair of SD40 types leading as they pass the large grain elevator on the north end of town. The leader is one of only a few original B&O SD40's that also was rebuilt to an RCO unit.
The first Monday of October is World Day of Bullying Prevention. This happens in schools, online, and even here on Flickr and SL. This post was inspired by Dax's song Joker.
So what's your excuse, what helps you sleep?
You leave a negative comment
Not knowing that what you sow, you will reap
I bet you smile when you post, thinking you're hurting me
But you see the way the brain works
You become what you speak
I need peace, but y'all can't offer that
I held my ground, I didn't sell my soul
I said f the fame, y'all can't take that offer back
F a shelf, you can't take me off the rack
All the fame is not worth a heart attack
You're insane, you're in pain, I can tell by what you're saying
But my bad, I forgot you were fragile
I forgot someone who doesn't even know me told you I'm an ahole
I forgot that I'm a villain
I forgot that I've always spread positivity, but you think I didn't
I forgot that hatred stems from people who hate their own existence
I forgot I'm better off alone
I forgot I care for everyone's happiness, but forget about my own
I forget I spend every waking second on my phone-
Come join my circus, I'm recruiting
I'm taking everyone who passes judgement
Bitch, that's including everyone who thinks it's so amusing
To put me down while I'm pursuing
The keyboard warriors that live online
Behind a screen that's just an illusion
Come, come, come, come join my circus
An RCO-equipped SD40N is on the point of UP train YKS62-09 making a trip west across town from the Joint Agency KCS-CP Knoche Yard with a transfer for UP's 18th St. Yard. Here, they're approaching St. Louis Ave on Main Track 1 of the UP KC Metro Sub as they ease through the S curve in front of the old Standard Seed Co. building. Later on this afternoon they'll make a run back east to Knoche with a transfer from 18th St. 10/9/22.
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CSX did some reshuffling of their service plan in Hialeah, particularly for the Gardens Lead. Previously split between Y220 and Y322, Y220 was abolished some time ago in favor of a remote control job, Y190. Also heard time to time is an evening Y290. CSX Y19003, the first RCO symbol in quite a while in the Miami terminal, spots a boxcar at Kam Long on track GL3 within yard limits. The Gardens Lead continues to be a hive of some industry, with at least a dozen customers sprinkled throughout seven leads and a main track. The congestion around Hialeah Yard and demands of the Gardens Lead perhaps make remote control operations a viable answer, for now. Cars continue to be sprinkled wherever they can, even on unused leads. Nonetheless this district is perfect for model railroading and a future ECHOES project... stay tuned for that.
An Ex-BN "whiteface" SD40-2 equipped with RCO gear is working a bowl trim job at BNSF's Argentine Yard, seen here shoving down the South Trim Lead as it finishes getting another train ready for departure. 1/4/20.
DMIR 403 leads a CN taconite train towards Two Harbors on July 22, 2016. We're about at MP 7 here on the downgrade of the Iron Range Sub. between Stewart and Waldo.
Chased this train from Sparta to Two Harbors two years ago today. We all knew it would be a matter of time before you could no longer find Missabe maroon on taconite trains in Minnesota and that finally came to pass the a couple of years later. Consist was DMIR 403, CN 6006, DMIR 405, and DMIR 407 leading 145 Minntac loads. The middle two units survive on the former Missabe out of Proctor, while the 403 and 407 were equipped for RCO service and work in Canada east or around Winnipeg.
A pair of worn out red and silver B40-8Ws rumble past the fall colors in Big Lake.
In the 1990s, these engines were among the many red & silver GEs and EMDs that Santa Fe called "the Super Fleet", leading fast mainline trains across the system.
Now they're merely yard-service engines. Some have even been fitted with RCO and put into hump service. These are PTC equipped and fit for the mainline, usually in locals or transfers out of Northtown.
The 558 wears post-merger large lettering, while the 542 still sports "Santa Fe", although faded to an ugly pink.
This was the local headed for St Cloud after making a stop in Big Lake to serve the lumber industry east of town.
Even got all the lights on (if you know, you know).
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BNSF 558 (B40-8W, blt 11/90)
BNSF 542 (B40-8W, blt 10/90)
What might seem like a quiet, low profile yard that would not see the need, the former Soo Line, and later, Wisconsin Central yard in Gladstone that CN still operates is a busy place that sees more trains than what one would imagine. The night RCO job drills cars on the west end with a pair of switchers that are no longer owned by CN. We spent a good amount of time that night shooting them, and it was a treat to hear those little things throttle up hard and shove the long cuts into their respective tracks.
Two GP38-2s, 4448 and 4431 are in charge of a late night east end RCO job at CPKCs Bensenville Yard as they throttle up under I-294. Both of them are former SOO, and the 4448 is one in a handful that still wears SOO paint.
The only Santa Fe painted engine left assigned to Kansas City pulls autoracks out of Turner at the west end of Argentine with BNSF Train Y KCK2161 07A. They're passing through CP 72 on the BNSF Emporia Sub. on Main Track 5 coming out of the North Receiver as they double up before crossing over to shove the IRT Auto Facility.
The 216 is fortunately a conventional job despite the engine being equipped with RCO gear. It's not a bad one to catch, and once in a while I work the 116, 216, or 316 off the yard engineer extra board when I can hold it. This GP39-2 is a great pulling engine, I still believe those are some of the best 4 axles ever built.
Locomotive: BNSF 2943
6-7-23
Kansas City, KS
BNSF SD40-2 1882 eases into the north end of the hump bowl at Galesburg Yard to start working on another cars. This is one of the many RCO jobs working around the clock in Galesburg.
June 25, 2016.
On a hot summer day in Northtown, BNSF 1877 + TECB6 58 + BNSF 1931 shove the last few cars up the hump for gravity sorting.
Northtown would run 2 more identical hump sets (BNSF 1888 & BNSF 1821) for several more years and you can watch the magic happen from the 44th Ave bridge. Until 2022...
Now all 3 hump sets have been reassigned and 3 new humpsets have taken their place.
Each new humpset comprises an SD40 sandwiched on each end by RCO-equipped ex-ATSF C44-9Ws (in original paint). New technologies and needs meant a change was coming.
600-series GEs rule the hump (628, 665 & 668 + friends 622, 655 & 688, and SD40s 1769, 1679 & 1931).
It was a slow transition but change is inevitable on the railroad, today in 2023 you can enjoy a lot of ex-Santa Fe pink and rust on the hump.
Make those memories while you can.
Here is my first image in LRGB since my return after some time out.
Some nice data to play with from SSRO - spent a lot of time working on the layers of colour and tone to try and provide as many perceived details as possible.
Plate solving does not seem to recognise this area - maybe it is too busy!
There are a plethora of images from the main blue reflection nebulae a variable nebula, some dark nebula and for good measure some Herbig-Haro objects.
Hope you enjoy.
Imaging telescope or lens:RCOS 16
Imaging camera:FLI Proline 16803
Mount:Planewave 200HR
Filters:Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Green
Resolution: 3927x3886
Dates:May 25, 2017
Frames: 134x1800"
Integration: 67.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 29.15 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.17%
Astrometry.net job: 2612749
Locations: SSRO Remote Observatory, Cerro Tololo, None
CSX Y190 swings empties for Trademark Metals to be progressively placed on the unused GL4 lead. The centerbeams which presumably came from USG stay with the consist before the train goes on to do some more work.
Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"
Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Luminance
Resolution: 2916x3132
Dates: Feb. 4, 2017, April 21, 2017, April 23, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 13x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 12x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 18x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 18x1200" bin 1x1
Integration: 20.3 hours
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
Here we have a look at NGC 4725 - after a few attempts, I am happy with this lovely looking galaxy.
Hope you enjoy.
Its a snowin' and a blowin' at Wyoming Yard as the 1st shift east end RCO switcher goes about its duties on the Old Even with RCPHE4 #9119 and MP15DC #1146. A former Seaboard Air Line GP40, the #9119 later became an MOW "Pumpkin" (CSXT #9727) and then was converted into an RC Drone. After CSX retired all of the EMD Drones, it was converted yet again into an RDMT road slug, becoming CSXT #2374.
Alternate take of CSX Y190 pulling boxcars on track GL6.
CSX Y19015 pulls a number of empty plywood boxcars from Boise-Cascade on the south side of industrial lead GL6 on the Gardens Lead in Miami, FL. It is essentially cleaning house as it also grabbed a cut of empties from Iberia Foods, and earlier pulled Coronet Paper on GL5. In the background is an elusive customer, Higgins Pet Foods, which regularly receives feed via hopper. Its elevator becomes a focal point for the park. To the left are Perez Trading and United Oil Packers, the former which hasn't appeared to receive cars for a while, and the latter which I'm surprised has been empty.
Northtown's B40-8Ws zoom eastbound with an 8700-foot mixed freight approaching CP52.8.
The B40s made a circle tour, first going north to Superior, then west to Grand Forks before heading east back to Northtown, their home base for the last long while.
558 & 542 are a popular pair around here, and are just about the only thing interesting left that runs out of Northtown.
As a kid in the late-90s and early 2000s, a lot of kid-friendly railroad programs featured the Santa Fe and their red & silver engines. So in a way, there's some childhood nostalgia in seeing red & silver 27+ years after the merger, even if it's badly faded and rusty.
The 500s and 600s were once proud members of the superfleet, hauling the hottest trains across the Santa Fe system. Now, these two 500s and six 600s have been assigned to Northtown for yard service, with the 600s being RCO assigned to the hump of all places, times are certainly different
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BNSF 558
BNSF 542
+ 139 cars
The NS RCO job returns from a run up the Economy Branch back to Conway with a couple tankers and the usual power.
Here we have a look at M95, even on a 14.5" scope this is quite a small (barred spiral) galaxy ~38Mly away. Despite the challenge, I think it is a nice example of a SB(r)b galaxy and some nice details are showing.
In order to realise the detail and keep to a decent size image I had to first ensure the scale of the image was sufficient to work out through drizzling all the data. Once complete I was able gently, through many iterations release the detail that was present. This is certainly a good example of many smaller iterations of process applications having more impact than a few larger ones. Hope you enjoy.
For the pixel peepers out there is a strange blue star towards the bottom of the image - I wondered what I had done wrong . Having reviewed this is actually correct and not an aberration, It is SDSS J104429.50+113042.0 an RR lyrae variable star - the SDSS data shows this to be the correct colour.......
HD: www.astrobin.com/332667/0/?nc=user
Crop: www.astrobin.com/332667/B/?nc=user
Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"
Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803
Mount: Paramount-ME
Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Luminance
Resolution: 7044x6153
Dates: Jan. 14, 2018, Jan. 15, 2018, Jan. 17, 2018, Jan. 24, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 17x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 16x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 20x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 18x1200" bin 1x1
Integration: 23.7 hours
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
CP train 475 with CP 7016, CP 8838, and CP 6013 gets a crew swap in their middle of their setout and pickup while an RCO training session goes on with SOO 4448 and CP 4425 at Nahant Yard in Davenport, IA.
April 10, 2020
A trio of former Santa Fe GE's lead BNSF train Y-KCK3111-27T down the North Main at Olive St. as it heads into the Joint Agency KCS-CP Knoche Yard with a transfer from BNSF's Argentine Yard. The B40-8W pair arrived in Kansas City several months for use on transfers, locals and yard jobs based out of Argentine. The Warbonnet Dash 9 behind them is headed to Mid-America Car for RCO installation. 6/28/22.
CMS was not thrilled after briefing the daily turnover and seeing a pair of "new" 60Ms assigned to his train. However, the 60s were all over the service tracks in Janesville and the dwindling number of 40s had either already been ear-marked for T005 or were buried. So there really wasn't much left to choose from. But if there is a will, there is a way. Resting at the west end of the yard was the pair of geeps on the RCO job coupled back to back. Double checking the tonnage requirements confirmed that they would do the trick. And within no time, the control chief was off, the power fired up, and their train doubled.
After just 5 days since the previous Y290 derailment yet another remote job derailment occurs. Y202 had permission through the RCO zone when the RCO pulled forward and swiped Y202. Only the locomotives on Y290 derailed.
Il famoso Delicate Arch, una delle strutture naturali più impressionanti di tutto il grande ovest americano.
Guardando bene alla base, si scorge una figura umana che rende meglio l'idea delle proporzioni.
Ma la cosa più bella è il colore della roccia, che all'alba ed al tramonto si accende di colori davvero intensi.
Foto dal mio archivio, Utah
#utah #moab #arches #delicate #rco #sunset #cielo #sky #west #usa #tourist #road #ontheroad #strada
Here is a look at the Iris on a longer focal length scope.
Hope you enjoy - busy few weeks ahead so thought I would get another image out.
Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"
Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Luminance
Resolution: 3462x2606
Dates: Aug. 16, 2017, Aug. 29, 2017, Aug. 30, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 9x120" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 12x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 25x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 8x1200" bin 1x1
Integration: 15.3 hours
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
One of 10 remaining SD40-2 high hoods on NS, 1630 is in RCO service at Pomona Yard in Greensboro. The old motor is shoving a cut of empties from Pomona over to Greensboro Intermodal for loading.
At dusk, everything is fairly quiet in Emporium, including a shut down RCO set that is kept in town for switching sand. But no sooner after the fog set in, the Driftwood Turn explodes into view before stopping south of town to make a drop.
MRL 256 and BNSF 1902 switch cars in Laurel, MT on an RCO job at the east end of the yard.
After the MRL takeover, BNSF power has started making more appearances on yard jobs and locals throughout the former MRL system. While the takeover is unfortunate, it has brought in some interesting BNSF motive power. Pairs like this are now common in Laurel for their BNSF counterparts RCO capabilities.