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"Run 1" is using a KCS SD40-2 as their sole power today as they finish doubling up an outbound train at CPKC's Knoche Yard, seen here shoving down the North Main at Olive St. This unit is RCO-equipped, though this job operates with a conventional three man crew. 10/5/24.
An empty unit coal train on track #2 passes a empty hopper train on track #1 at Global III in the late afternoon sun on the UP Geneva Sub. To the right the local Global III RCO's are working up a Kline special for departure later this night.
A "snoot" nose KCS SD40-2 assigned to "Run 11", the sole RCO job at CPKC's Knoche Yard, is busy drilling the Work Lead as it passes a CP SD60 rebuild tied down on Track 202, the South Ramp, with a loaded CWR train symboled as WCWR097-26.
We almost a month shy of two years since the Canadian Pacific and the Kansas City Southern merged to form the CPKC. Knoche had already been shared by both roads, a joint agency agreement that dates back to the mid-1940's starting with the KCS and the Milwaukee Road. 3/2/25.
The (almost) daily City job that serves American Crystal Sugar and spud row in EGF arrives in the yard, and will soon set out cars for the trackmobile at ACS to spot in the plant across the road to the left.
A empty ethanol train heads west on track #1 while a yard engine has come out onto the main from the east side of G3 to track #2 to move west and re-enter G3 on the west side. Mean time a road engine has just un-coupled from it's train in the yard and is trying to make it's way over to the service area for service while a RCO crew is busy making up a outbound for later in the day.
CSX Q262 crosses the Iona Island South Causeway on the CSX River Subdivision with a former RCO SD40-2 based out of the yard in Walbridge Ohio leading the way.
CSX Q262-25 @ Jones Point, NY
CSX SD40-2 #2428
CSX SD40-3 #4056
A scrap dealer bought these retired CCRCL's at a UP locomotive auction several years ago and he's slowly been in the process of cutting them up next to the KCS Mexico Sub. at the west side of Higginsville.
These units were rebuilt from B23-7, B23-7M, B30-7, and B30-7A model GE's from the MP and SP/SSW for remote control service across the UP System by removing their fuel tanks and cab appliances. Their prime movers were left behind but inoperable as ballast. RCO gear was added and they received the solid Harbor Mist Gray scheme and UPY series numbers.
The RCO controller is linked to the CCRCL, the whatever locomotive consist is MU'd the to the CCRCL can then be operated as a remote control consist. With dozens of big units being equipped with RCO equipment the past few years these units were again put out to pasture, ironically in time for PSR to set in and abolish many RCO jobs as they were turned back into conventional assignments as hump yards were closed in favor of old fashioned flat switching.
Locomotives: UPY 147, UPY 155
6-7-20
Higginsville, MO
Galactic Fountain
NGC 3576 is an emission nebula located in the constellation Carina. It has many names, but best known by its popular name of “The Statue of Liberty Nebula". This is from the distinctive shape that can be seen in the middle of the nebula. However, I see something that looks more like a huge Galactic Fountain in Sagittarius arm of our galaxy.
Location in Cosmos from planet Earth
Location: RA: 11 11 58.665 Dec: -61 18 05.50
Imaged from
Melbourne, Australia
Image Dates
3 April, 3 May, 21 April 2015
Image Exposures
Ha 28 X 1800
Instruments
Telescope: ………. 10" Ritchey-Chrétien (RCOS)
Focal Length: ..... 2300.00 mm
Camera: …………... SBIG STL-11000 Mono
Filter: .................... Baader H-alpha 7nm.
Pixel size: ........... 9.00 um
Resolution: ......... 0.82 arcsec/pix
Mount: …………..... Astro-Physics AP-900
Processing Tools
CCDStack: ……………. Calibration, stacking, noise reduction
Photoshop: ………….. General image processing
A pair of 700 class Warbonnet Dash 9's with RCO equipment rest on one of the departure tracks at BNSF's Murray Yard in North Kansas City, MO.
The RCO equipment was installed at Mid-America Car here in town, and these two were released from there at the beginning of this year. For the past couple of weeks, they've used on the R-HLA6911/L-HLA6921 rotation out of Murray, and later tonight, they'll be forwarded to Argentine and ultimately bound for Relco at Albia, IA for more work. 3/23/24.
A pair of worn and weathered Warbonnet Dash 9's sit nose-to-nose on the interchange track outside of Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. These two are headed into the shops for RCO installation. 4/26/23.
At BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS, an RCO equipped SD32ECO, which serves as a bowl trimmer here at the yard, shoves a lengthy cut of cars next to a transfer bound for KCS's Knoche Yard with a pair of KCS GP38-2s for power. 10/4/15.
SSRO- RCOS 16", Alta U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8.9, Adobe Photoshop 2023
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RCOS 14.5" f/9 - SBIG STL11K - L (150m) R (33m) G (33m) B (50m) - Pingelly, WA, Australia
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During the evening of 4/17/19 An NS RCO checks out the graffiti on the adjacent autorack while riding an old school high hood GP38 at the east end of NS' South Yard located in Lafayette, IN.
An RCO-equipped SD60M-SD40-2 pair finishes shoving a cut down the South Hump Lead and over the hump at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS.
The BNSF SD60M No. 1476 was originally built as BN No. 1991 in March of 1991, painted in a patriotic red, white and blue paint scheme as a tribute to troops that served during Operation Desert Storm. It retained that paint scheme for a few a years after the merger with the Santa Fe in 1995, until it had an overhaul at the Livingston Rebuild Center at Livingston, MT in May 2000, where it received a new coat of Heritage II paint and was renumbered to 9299.
It was later renumbered again to 8199 to make room for new SD70ACe delieveries, and it was eventually repainted into Heritage IV colors and became RCO-equipped, working as a bowl trimmer here at Argentine. It was renumbered yet again as 1476 to make room for new ES44C4's, and had been moved elsewhere on the system for a few years before returing to Kansas City again to work as one of the hump engines. 5/30/22.
Coventry 19.6.04
Further action from Coventry 50s Festival of Flying 2004 can be found here....
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Taken from Rancho Hidalgo in Animas Ne Mexico using a 14.5 RCOS F8/Apogee U16 High cooling camera.
9/29-10/7 2013
HA 360 min
O3 600 min
Red 1x1 255 min
Green 1x1 165 min
Blue 1x1 210min
26 Hours of total Exposure
Calibrated,combned in CCD Stack all other processing done using PS5
Finger Lakes 2201, a former L&N U23B, drills the industrial park north of the railroad's Geneva yard. Controlling the engine with his belt pack, the engineer throttles up the old GE as he prepares to make another cut. Geneva, NY.
Hasselblad 503CXi - kamakura, japan
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UP 4902 west leads a freight manifest along and past global III on the Geneva Sub. Noticeably absent in global III is a lack of containers and activity. Most likely because of the dock workers strike on the west coast. But still, a couple of RCO's move the few containers in the yard into a outgoing train.
w/ Steve Mazlin
SSRO- RCOS 16", Alta U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax
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140 074-6 (RM Lines) heads a rake of 'AB Trans Ajcinka' & 'AB Trans Fridous' branded CZ-RCO Uacs (empty glass sand) and VTG Nacco Taoos through Velký Osek with 48747 (IDS) Řetenice - Varín (+280)
Flying their vintage De Havilland Tiger Moth bi-planes, the fabulous Tiger Nine display team head into sun after another run over Kemble during the 2011 'Battle of Britain' Airshow
For the record they were:
DE470/16, DF128/RCO,
G-EMSY, G-ANEN, G-APLU,
G-AOBX, G-ANFM, G-AHOO, G-ANEM
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Y705, a GP15N backs it's way into Global III as two SD40 RCO units work to make up an outbound for later in the day in a stuffed G3 yard.
Nikon F-80D - mahabalipuram, india
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Chassis: Dennis Dart SPD.
Body: Alexander ALX200 B42F.
Location: Lever Street, Manchester.
Date: 8th March, 2014.
Horsehead nebula pure RGB exposure
The Famous Horsehead nebula.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
RGB 2: 3.3: 1.6 hr
Seven hours total exposure for RGB Short run
Jan-March 2018
Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, And Photoshop.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X, Paramount ME
This is a narrowband image of the moon. Ha was mapped to Red, SII mapped to Green, and OIII mapped to the Blue channel to create a false colour image.
I am getting desperate with all the cloud over head, and have resorted to shooting the moon. Fortunately this guy doesn’t require long exposures and I could grab subs between the clouds. Ten subs of 0.01 seconds were used for each filter, then stacked in CCDStack. The three resulting images where combined into a false colour image and touched up in Photoshop.
Instrument used: 10" RCOS
Camera: SBIG STL 11000
Location: Melbourne, Australia
The wizard nebula (NGC 7380) is a popular target for astrophotographers.
The nebula has an unusual shape, which resembles a wizard...
100 ly across
Distance is 7200 ly.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
This image is SHO
SHO 8:7.5:8 hours
Total exposure 24 hours.
Transparency and Seeing Very good-Excellent
September-November 2017
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop, and Lightroom
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
RCO equipped units populate the engine tracks at BNSF Argentine Yard 2A on a bitter cold night. The yard is almost silent due to winter weather shutting the railroad down to the west and north, and flooding to the south.
Locomotives: BNSF 2916, BNSF 1878
12-28-15
Kansas City, KS
Several standard cab EMD's that remain captive at BNSF's Argentine Yard are seen here at 55th St.
On the left, an Ex-ATSF GP39-2 assigned to BNSF train Y-KCK1161-08A at Turner eases down the lead as light power.
In the middle, a remote hump job with a pair of SD40-2's sneaks down Hump Lead Track 2099.
On the right, another remote hump job goes about it's business shoving over the hump on Hump Lead Track 2098 with one of the four former Frisco SD38-2's paired with an SD40-2 for power. 5/8/21.
SSRO- RCOS 16", Alta U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax
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A new walkway constructed from Kaw Point up to the roadway opened up a new shot for the Bartlett switch engine.
Former Santa Fe SD40-2's now painted orange and equipped with RCO gear are found on one of the hump leads at the west end of BNSF's Argentine Yard, ready to shove a cut over the crest. This is between the main tracks for the BNSF Emporia Sub west of CP 72.
It's not often these hump sets have two west facing units. At one time in these engines careers, they were in charge of road trains through here, now reduced to lowly yard service. 10/29/25.