A flight in it's landing approach to runway 4R at Chicago's Midway Airport.

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Scanned 35m Kodachrome 64 Slide

I have not had much time to spend on my computer lately, with various activities and the approaching holidays. And not much time for Flickr. I just wanted to say have a great weekend, and to all Americans, Happy Thanksgiving next Thursday.

This was taken in early October at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Upstate New York.

This is the view to the west when approaching Cordell, Oklahoma, on Oklahoma Route 152.

Guarding the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

A B.N.S.F east bound stack train approaches Lombard,Montana. Seen near the pumping plant on Toston,Reservoir. (Missouri River). More snow than usual in this area this winter. I trudged through 6 inches of crusty snow to get here.

MPMG / PAC. Panama city, Panama.

032 approaches Youghal distant signal with the 11.00 excursion from Cork.

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Today Alice and I went to Aberdeen to have a look at the University. Alice is thinking of going to study there. This was taken on the approach to Aberdeen station, while we were on the train.

Arriving at the tTrminal Ferry building on San Francisco Bay.

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Avro Vulcan XH558 on final approach to Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster.

86221 'BBC Look East' arrives with the 11.00 from Kings Lynn on 16 June 1987.

Pentax K1000/135mm

Ilford FP4

A westbound BNSF freight lays down a veil of snow approaching Thompson Falls, Montana, on February 7, 2014.

Class 40 Indian Summer

Class 40 40099 approaches the legendary Ribblehead Viaduct on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds in the summer of 1984. Yours truly was on for the ride. Happy days on the Settle & Carlisle railway. I had the best 'seat' in the house 😎😍

'A day in the life' - log book update:

Saturday 11th August 1984 - 40099 on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds.

CARLISLE

Armathwaite

Lazonby

Langwathby

APPLEBY

Kirkby Stephen

Ais Gill Summit

Garsdale

Dent

Ribblehead

Horton-in-Ribblesdale

SETTLE

Hellifield

SKIPTON

Keighley

Shipley

LEEDS

113 miles

Followed by:

40091 on 1M54 13.24 Skegness - Man Picc

RETFORD (Low Level)

Whisker Hill Jnct

Worksop

Shireoaks

Kiveton Park

Darnall

SHEFFIELD

Dore

Hope

EDALE

New Mills Central

Romiley

Reddish North

Ashburys

MAN PICC

65 miles

Between 1982 and 1984 I spent many happy hours with my friends chasing around the North of England after the remaining Class 40s. At the beginning of 1984, there were still 50 members of the fleet in service, but this had already reduced down to 31 by the time I had 40099 in mid-August. By the end of the summer timetable, just 25 remained in service, and only 17 of the class survived into 1985, all but 3 being withdrawn over the weekend of 21st/22nd Jan 1985.

D200/40122, 40118 and 40012 were kept on just for rail tours, although D200 had a second Indian summer :)

Nearly all of the last Class 40s in service that year acquired some or other distinguishing marks, from hand-painted nameplates to original numbers. 40099 was no exception, having had her discs removed in 1980. The sharper-eyed amongst you will also notice one of the horn grilles is on sideways!

Locomotive History

D299 / 40099

D299 was built by the English Electric Company at their Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire and entered traffic in Oct 1960.

24/10/60 - Date in traffic allocated to 5A (Crewe North)

01/11/60 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)

01/06/62 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)

01/09/62 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)

01/02/63 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)

01/11/64 - Transferred to 1A (Willesden)

01/12/65 - Transferred to 2F (Bescot)

01/04/66 - Transferred to WL (Western Lines D01, D02, D05)

01/06/68 - Transferred to D01 (London Western Division)

01/07/68 - Transferred to D05 (Stoke-on-Trent Division)

01/09/68 - Transferred to D10 (Preston Division)

26/05/72 - Painted into BR Blue

01/11/72 - Transferred to D08 (Liverpool Division)

01/05/73 - Transferred to SP (Wigan Springs Branch)

01/09/73 - Transferred to KM (Carlisle Kingmoor)

01/05/74 - Renumbered as 40099

01/01/75 - Transferred to KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

01/05/75 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)

01/10/75 - Transferred to HA (Haymarket)

01/05/78 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)

01/07/80 - Discs and water tanks removed

22/10/84 - Withdrawn at KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

25/01/85 - Towed to Doncaster Works for scrapping

Cut up at BREL Doncaster works by 08/05/85

My interest in the railways waned permanently with the demise of the Class 50s, initially from the Paddington-Oxford route in 1990, and finally when they retired from the Waterloo-Exeter services in 1992.

As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share. ;)

Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/

'Indian Summer' - a period of happiness or success occurring late in life...English Electric Type 4 1958-1984

Supermarine Spitfire-PR.X1 G-PRXI approaching Blackpool Airport on its tour around NHS Hospitals,Under Wing Writing with the words "Thank U NHS" can be seen ,photographed on 30/08/2020

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On a flight from London to Istanbul, Turkey, this was the first view of the airport and city. We continued descending over the sea, turned left and made our approach and landing.

In the picture, just left of the centre is our destination, Ataturk airport. Also, in the picture, beyond the airport is the centre of the big city.

At the time of writing this a new, bigger airport will soon open, a few miles north of this one and Ataturk will no longer take scheduled passenger flights.

Our aircraft was a Boeing 767.

sabado 10/11/07

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Iztaccihuatl

QG 501 is inbound towards CPKC's St-Luc Yard with a slug leading. Full lashup: QGRY 801, QGRY 3801, QGRY 3102 & QGRY 2005.

A three image panorama of an approaching storm over Philadelphia.

PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 200mm F2.8 ED SDM

Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25

5 aircraft on approach to London Heathrow Airport.

Heavy rain coming across the Brindabella Ranges west of Wallaroo New South Wales

Taken @Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Portland, Dorset, England

AMT 84 with RBRX 18531 leading is approaching Montreal on a beautiful morning as it crosses the St-Lawrence river.

British Airways A380 on one of its first flights to L.A.

The final approach after a valley flyover. Diamondback piloted by Mark Peterson of Boise. A P-51D

Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100mm f/2.8

CN 2322 & CN 2293 lead CN 114 from Winnipeg westbound on the York Sub in Toronto.

Skelgill Bank in the foreground

I was in south east Iowa this week on business. Thursday afternoon the leading edge of the storm in the Midwest was approaching my location.

Union Terminal

Cincinnati, OH

HDR of the beautiful art-deco architecture of Cincinnati's former train station, now home to several museums. Very cool building, inside and out. The approaching storm produced some awesome dark clouds that added a tremendous depth to the photo. I also love the somewhat surreal sense of motion of the water flowing down the fountain.

IMG_6036_7_8a-2

Montreux Oberland Bernois [MOB] Ge 4/4 8001 D2124 11:44 Montreux to Zweisimmen 'Golden Pass Panoramic' approaching Saanen BE.

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July 2018. © Eduardo Mendoza.

This red shouldered hawk made a tree-top landing approach at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.

Mid July 1996 Mainline Blue 37803 from the other side of the tracks at Berkley from the previous photo.

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