Bug located the error description is:

Error while running event
on_preplayer_mined_item (ID 11)
reverse_factory/control.lua:90:attempt to index global 'rf' (a nil value)

Yesterday I had no problem picking up reverse factories and now today I do. Basically its not a problem so long as i don't pick up my reverse factories. I don't know if its tied to a specific mod. But below is a list of all of them:

Bob's (full load out)
Angel's (full load out)
Alien Science
0.15 like infinite research
Arumba lights
auto research
belt brush
belt upgrader
bio industries
bot recaller
bottleneck
bottleneck logistics
bullet trails
burner leech
busy bots
charcoal burner
color coding
crafting speed research
deep quarry
enhanced map mode
fully automated rail layer
KS Power
laser beam turrets
late upgrades
launch control
loader snapping
long reach
orphan finder
progressive running
quick ug belt
RSO
reverse factory
robot army
shiny bob
squeak through
the fat controller
upgrade builder planner
uranium power
useful byproducts
useful space industry
what is it used for?
yet another resource monitor fork
add-loader

Even more confusing to this, placing another reverse factory and then trying to pick it up allowed me to pick up multiple ones with no crash.

Hmm, did you have this mod enabled from the very beginning of the playthrough, or did you update it at some point? It seems like the rf table is not properly being initialized for some reason. Although placing another one down should recreate the table, any previous recyclers should not be added to the list at that point, so they should still be broken...

Hmmm..