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The last Santa Fe painted engine in Kansas City, BNSF GP39-2 No. 2943, creeps west on Main Track 5 of the BNSF Emporia Sub with BNSF train Y-KCK1161-09A. They're pulling clear of CP 72 before shoving into the IRT Auto Facility with autoracks from Turner.
Next to them on the right, a pair of elephant style SD40-2's of similar heritage, though dressed in orange and black, are on Hump Lead 2 shoving a big cut over the crest at BNSF's Argentine Yard. 3/9/25.
The RCO Day Zone Job returns to Northtown after working Waste Management on the St. Paul Sub. A single Dash 9 on an industry job is just a little different to say the least. Note the raised pilot for clearing retarders in the hump yard.
One of the few remaining YN2 EMDs, 8247, works Bayview Yard. The RCO box sticks out like a bad pimple on the rusty, faded nose.
A red and silver Dash 9 duo has the honors of working BNSF train L-HLA6921-14I this morning as they pass through CP 320 on Main Track 1 of the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. They've completed their work at Spring Hill, and they're now making a trip to La Cygne, a run that's made two or three times a week.
Both of these engines were installed with RCO equipment at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO a couple of months ago, and they'll spend some time on the R-HLA6911/L-HLA6921 rotation for at least a week before being sent to Albia, IA for more RCO upgrades. Several former ATSF 600 series Dash 9's have been cycled through Mid-America Car over the past couple of years fro RCO installation, and now a few 700 series units are receiving the same treatment. It's already strange seeing big GE's used on locals, but it's even stranger seeing them now used on remote yard jobs. 3/14/24.
After waiting on one to clear, UP train YFX80R-06 is back on the move as they continue their shove towards Fairfax, seen here on the UP KC Metro Sub at North Cypress JCT. Some morning fog briefly rolled in, now beginning to burn off finally.
They're returning from the former Katy Glen Park Yard, a trip that's made at least once a week. The two bay hoppers are from Ash Grove Cement while the gon's were picked up in The By's at Amrstrong along the way. A Mo-Pac short bay window caboose is used as a shoving platform, necessary for the long shove they're making from Kaw Tower all the way into the yard at Fairfax. The RCO foreman riding the point is keeping a watchful eye for the homeless that live along the right of way here. 9/6/25.
A pair of RCO-equipped units, a "snoot" nose rebuilt SD40-2 now classified as an SD39-2 paired up with a regular SD40-2, sit on the North Hump Lead near Erman before they begin to shove another cut over the hump at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS. 5/10/20.
This is my wide field version of The Skull and Crossbones Nebula. NGC 2467 is an active star-forming region in the constellation Puppis. The presence of large hydrogen gas clouds is a key ingredient required for the creation of new stars.
Observations of the many stars in NGC 2467 suggest that they may be more a superposition of loose groups of stars at different distances than a coherent open cluster of stars energizing the nebula. I guess it really depends on one's perspective in the universe, but from here, I think it looks awesome.
This version shows more of the surrounding areas around the nebula, including many colourful stars.
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon LRGB Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium OIII 8.5nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium SII 8.0nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details
•Red 16X450 2X2
•Green 16X450 2X2
•Blue 16X450 2X2
•Lum 62X900
•Ha 26X1800
•SII 30X1800
•OIII 28X1800
Total Time: 63.5 hours
A Montana Rail SD40-2XR languishes at the BNSF Argentine Yard DSF, as it has for close to a month and half now. It and a sister unit were plucked from home rails and brought here with the intentions of being used as hump and bowl set mates for RCO jobs, though they'll eventually be moved west and reassigned for RCO service in New Mexico.
The MRL No. 263 was originally built in April of 1966 as a straight SD40, beginning life as the CNW No. 891. Since coming to the MRL, it's been rebuilt and classified as an SD40-2XR.
In the background, a former Santa Fe SD45-2, now RCO-equipped and designated as an SD40-2R, is assigned to a bowl job as it eases down one of the trim leads towards CP 40, where it'll get onto the main for headroom. 8/2/25.
A narrowband image of a small section of the Veil Nebula, sometimes known as the "Bat" or "Fangs."
Captured at DSW in New Mexico, Nov, 2016
Scope: RCOS 14.5"
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STX16803
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: SBIG RGH
Image scale: 0.55 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 28x900s Ha, 9x1200s Oiii, 9x1200s Sii (13 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
A trio of former Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9's congregate outside the shops at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO, where they've come to installed with RCO equipment. Aside from a few stragglers, most of the 600 series Dash 9's are now RCO-equipped and demoted to yard service. 7/13/24.
An image combining data from multiple scopes, both at DSW in New Mexico. The TEC 160FL belongs to Jim & Linda Powell. The RCOS 14.5" is a shared team scope.
Jones-Emberson 1 is a largish, low surface brightness planetary nebula in Lynx. The central star is a very bluish white dwarf.
Scope: TEC 160FL FL=1152.68mm (OTA #30/TEC-FF)
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STF-8300M
Filters: Astrodon Gen II LRGB, 5nm NB
Guiding: Lodestar/OAG
Focuser: Starizona Microtouch, FocusMax 4
Image scale: 0.966 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled up)
Exposures: 16x900s R, 10x900 G, 7x900s B, 19x1800s Ha, 8x1800s Oiii (21.75 hours)
Scope: RCOS 14.5"
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STX16803
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: SBIG RGH
Image scale: 0.55 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 8x900s + 4x1200s R, 6x900s + 9x1200s G, 6x900s + 6x1200s B, 24x1800s Ha, 19x1800s Oiii (32.83 hours)
187 010-4 (WLE 82) with rake of Railco BeLog CZ-RCO Faccns on the three times per week DGS 95028 Sachsendorf - Rheine passing Dedensen-Gümmer (-1)
More BNSF locomotive populate Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. A Ex-ATSF Warbonnet Dash 9 is here for RCO installation as an SD70ACe takes in the evening sun while showing off it's new paint. 6/8/24.
This edge-on spiral galaxy is located in the southern constellation of Indus. It is about 31 million light years from us, and was first observed by John Herschel on the 4th of October 1834.
It has an apparent magnitude of 10.51 and an angular extent of 8.15 X 1.63 arcmin. I love looking for all the other objects far off in the distance. The halo reminds me of a fish with the tail at the base flaring out, and the head at the top.
Instruments:
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length: 2310.00 mm
Pixel size: 9.00 um
Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Exposure Details:
Red 21X450 Bin2
Green 16X450 Bin2
Blue 22X450 Bin2
Lum 38X600 Bin1
Total Exposure: 13.7 Hours
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More BNSF locomotive populate Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. A Ex-ATSF Warbonnet Dash 9 is here for RCO installation as another repainted Dash 9 shows off its new paint in the evening sun. 6/8/24.
Arriving back home at UP's 18th St. Yard after coming out of The By's and crossing over both mains of the UP KC Metro Sub is UP train YKS75R-10, which returning from BNSF's Argentine Yard with a transfer. For power, they have a former Cotton Belt GP40M-2, originally built for the Rock Island as a GP40, paired with an SD40N. The RCO crew is on the front of the engine, preparing to step down soon to line their train into the yard. 3/10/24.
At UP's Quindaro Yard at the Fairfax District, a pair of SD40N's on the left sit unattended while an Ex-MP GP15-1 on an RCO yard job on the right is busy switching cars. 3/28/21.
A side on view of this galaxy shows the archetypal galaxy structure. The outer halo shows as well as the central bulge. Unusual dust lanes features running from the core out to the edges as well.
Iris nebula (NGC 7023)
Bright reflection nebula, magnitude 6.8, distance 1300 Lightyear
Notable blue reflection nebula
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5" Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
LRGB 8: 4.3: 4.6: 5.6 hours, 23 hours total exposure
Transparency and Seeing very good-Excellent
July-August 2017
Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
Explored 9/22/17
RCO job UP train YKS75R-19 pokes out of Armstrong towards the Elevator Lead as it works The By's before making a trip across the Kaw River to BNSF's Argentine Yard with a transfer. 4/19/25.
Two end-cab switchers work a nice cut of BN paper loading boxcars at LSPI in West Duluth in 1996. This was early BNSF when things still looked like good old BN - thankfully. Love the shine on those boxes. SW1200 163 was a common unit around the Twin Ports during the BN era (originally GN 30). It was assigned as the Grand Rapids switcher for a few years.
The RCO engineer climbs aboard UP 553 on the YHO75R job as it works industries off of Dallerup Yard in east Houston. The two Geeps have just shoved a cut of cement hoppers from Cemex off to the left and will now pick up a cut of gondolas from Tri-Coastal Trading on the right.
YHO75R 27
UP GP38-2 #553
UP GP60 #1043
Houston, TX
December 27th, 2022
Returning from switching a customer on the north side of the bayou, the crew on this RCO job rides the front of their lead locomotive as they return to Booth Yard.
Bridge 5A over Buffalo Bayou here is a swing bridge, though it rarely performs that function anymore. Large marine traffic no longer travels upstream of this crossing, so the bridge only opens once a year for testing.
YHO75R 28
UP GP60 #1009
UP GP38N #509
Houston, TX
December 28th, 2023
OGS/RCOS 10", Atik 11000M and EFW2, Astrodon I Series Gen2 LRGB, Paramount ME, PixInsight 1.8, Phoroshop CC
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Y193 (CSX 2755 and 9249) and Y103 (CSX 2801 and an unidentified second Geep) go about their work at the east end of CSX's Wyoming Yard. In the distance, X500 awaits a new crew in track E02.
SSRO- RCOS 16", Alta U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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A UPY GP15-1 has a single boxcar in tow as it clatters north across the IHB and CSX diamonds in Dolton. My buddy was friends with the guy who owned the truck shop in the NE quadrant of the junction, and had let us up on the roof on this day to watch trains for as long as we wanted!
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Austin 1300GT (1969-74) Engine 1275cc S4 OHV Production 52,107
Registration Number RCO 16 K (Plymouth)
AUSTIN ALBUM
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The BMC ADO16 is a range of small family cars built by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and, later, British Leyland. Launched in 1962, it was Britain's best-selling car from 1963 to 1966 and from 1968 to 1971, The ADO16 was marketed globally under various make and model names; the most prolific variant was the Austin 1100 and Morris 1100. At the height of its popularity, it was widely known as the 1100 (eleven-hundred) in its home market, or as the 1300 when equipped with the 1275 cc engine.
The 1300GT was an upmarket extra power version of the standard Austin 1300. The engine was tuned to the same as the MG1300 at 70bhp giving a top speed in the region of 95mph. Also better instrumentation and trim than the standard car
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Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-070
An RCO assigned to the Receiving Yard in Queensgate waits patiently for his conductor to line the switch behind his train, further north in the yard. CSX 2437 and a rare MT6, #1010, provide the horses to work the train on this fine Saturday evening.
Reprocessed August, 2022
SSRO- RCOS 16", Apogee U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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SSRO- RCOS 16", FLI Proline 16803, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax
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Taken with an STL11K camera and 33-cm RCOS Telescope.
This image was one of the astronomical photos of the day in 2008.
Stars: RGB
Nebula: HaSIIOIII
RCPHE4 #9120 and GP38-2 #2520 roll down the Old Even Lead at the east end of CSX's Wyoming Yard. A former C&O GP40, the 9120 frequented Michigan for most of its life as an RC drone. Eventually it was rebuilt into an RDMT Road Slug, becoming CSX #2369. The C&O signals protecting the plant at Plaster Creek can be seen in the distance.
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Acquisition, Calibration- Mike Selby
Post-processing- Warren Keller
Telescope- RiDK 700
Camera- FLI PL16803
Location- Obstech, El Sauce, Chile
Addt'l luminance detail by SSRO-
RCOS 16", Apogee U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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SD40-2 Leads the Way
H-SUPNTW1-18A approaches Isanti in some sweet afternoon light. This unit was on my list for quite a while. When I last saw this unit, it didn't have the A/C units on top, nor PTC. It almost looks like an RCO unit. Well Mike, I hope this answered your questions about this unit.
BNSF 1692
BNSF 1463
BNSF 649
A pair of RCO-equipped Ex-MP GP38-2's are assigned to UP train YFX82R-03 switching UP's Quindaro Yard at the Fairfax District in Kansas City, KS. The SD40N on the left was used on UP train YFX77 last night transferring cars to and from 18th St. Yard. 8/3/22.
Another worn and tattered Ex-Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9 has arrived at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO for RCO installation and possibly a new coat of orange paint. 4/30/23.
Former ATSF C44-9W No. 665 sits outside the shops at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. This is one of at least three 600 series Dash 9's that arrived on the property for RCO installation. 7/4/22.
An SD32ECO rebuild, originally an Ex-ATSF SD45-2, begins pulling out of the bowl and towards the South Trim Lead at BNSF's Argentine Yard as they begin doubling up what will become an outbound train for departure later.
A few of these SD32ECO rebuilds, which are all RCO-equipped, are assigned to bowl jobs at Argentine, working alongside a few SD40-2's and even a couple of Dash 9's. They've been in Kansas City a little over a decade now, originally in transfer service before being held captive in the yard on remote jobs. 9/6/25.
An RCO-equipped former Santa Fe "snoot" nose SD40-2 is working as a bowl trimmer at BNSF's Argentine Yard poking out of the Straight Receiver onto Main Track 3 of the BNSF Emporia Sub through CP 39 and CP 35. 11/2/23.
A pair of Ex-MP Geeps, a GP15-1 and a GP38-2, assigned to UP train YFX82R-17 at UP's Quindaro Yard continue going about their business switching cars as they pass a lone SD70M seen on the left and a couple of SD40N's seen on the right next to the yard office. 10/17/21.
A pair of red and silver 700-class Dash 9's are found outside of Mid-America Car on the interchange track on the evening of New Year's Day 2024. They've recently been released after receiving RCO installation.
Several former Santa Fe 600 series Dash 9's have been cycled through here for the past couple of years for RCO equipment, and now the time has come for some of the 700's to receive the same treatment. While they've all retained their red and silver paint, and it's sad and pathetic seeing these bigger GE's demoted and assigned to lowly remote yard jobs. 1/1/24.