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1Z42 can be seen at a halt at Goonbarrow Junction Signal box whilst a token exchange happens. The photo is taken from 2Z43 which was awaiting the token from 1Z42. This sight is likely to be nearly impossible to recreate as by the next large event demanding such high number of services on the line the HST, in its current format, will no longer operate on the western. Especially with the imminent introduction of IET's onto rails west of Newton Abbot due.
Today’s erection at Thuxton. A driver delivers the token pouch onto this catcher before picking up the one for the section ahead.
Annual token 'this is what I really look like' shot....
43.......
Shit is sagging....everywhere.....more lines are forming....skin is....well...skin is not butter anymore...metabolism is all over the place...weight is settling....and I swear if I grow a mustache I'm gonna pack it in...
Many of you know me..have known me for quite some time and some know me in other places and know what I look like without magic editing skills...
I do these shots for me...keep me in reality and for you so that you don't wonder what is wrong with you and why I don't look my age...I do!! =)
Embrace it...hmmmmmm...Hell no...but it's what I got...
In a busy scene at Gothland Station, 63395 waits patiently, as with the fireman about to exchange tokens with the signalman, 76079 arrives with a train from Pickering.
Busy scene in dazzling afternoon light as the signaller exchanges single line tokens with the crew of 45212 at Damems loop, KWVR. Railbus M79964 waits for the token before setting off for Keighley.
Player tokens from the Empire Builder series of rail games from Mayfair Games. These tokens are hanging out on the board map from Empire Builder itself. My copy of that game is not a first edition, but it is old enough to pre-date the addition of Mexico.
Token block instruments at Sala Thammasop station. The instruments are of the Saxby & Farmer type and were made in India. They use steel ball tokens. Below the instruments are the rings to exchange tokens on the fly, see flic.kr/p/Fdjrau
50008 Thunderers driver is about to surrender the token from Arley at Highley during the SVRs 50 years of the Class 50 gala.
What tokens are tucked away in your drawer or chest.
Love letters? Photographs? Pressed flowers? Or is it a secret? Just old memories...
Thank you for looking. xxxx
A scene from the third day of the 'Royal Forest of Steam' event at the Dean Forest Railway, Sunday 09 June 2019. The Norchard Signalman issues the single line token to the crew of GWR Prairie loco no. 5541 at the start of the day's operations.
Got a very nice gift from one of the kids in my workshops as we wrapped up the last summer session :D
It was made by her and her mother. Love to get such a thoughtful personalized token that I can take with me everywhere now.
The studs are exposed on top so that I can put any random LEGO I find on the floor onto it ;)
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Keep Dreaming in Bricks!
A view of the token box in the signal box at Bewdely, UK. A token cannot be released from this box until it is released by another signal box at Arley, UK.
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The story of how all this series of pictures came to be is here on a Utata entry. Mouseover the "note" link on the bottom menu to see the story.
Roman Republic AV Half-Stater. Circa 216 BC. Laureate, Janiform head of the Dioscuri / Oath-taking scene: two warriors, one Roman and the other representing the Italian allies, standing facing each other, holding spears and touching with their swords a sacrificial pig held by a youth kneeling left between them; ROMA in exergue. Crawford 28/2; Sydenham 70; Bahrfeldt 2.2, pl. I, 13 (same dies); Biaggi 2; RBW 62. 3.43g, 15mm, 5h.
Extremely Fine, and among the best preserved specimens known. Very Rare.
From the collection of Gianfranco Galfetti;
Privately purchased from Kunst und Münzen, Lugano in 1956.
The first gold coinage ever issued by the Roman Republic, this half stater represents one of the most desperate moments in all of Roman history. The Second Punic War of 218-203 BC was waged at an unthinkable cost to Rome in terms of men, material and money. For nearly fifteen years the conflict was fought on Italian soil, bringing devastation to the peninsula on a scale it had never before endured. Yet the greatest shocks came in the opening phase of the war – Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps into the Po plain, considered one of the greatest achievements in military logistics, and the devastating defeats he inflicted on the Roman legions in a quick sequence of major battles, at the Trebia (December 218 BC), Lake Trasimene (June 217 BC), and Cannae (August 216 BC), brought Rome to her very knees. As a measure of the extent of the disaster, Hannibal had defeated the equivalent of eight consular armies (16 legions plus an equal number of allies), and within the space of just three campaign seasons, Rome had lost one-fifth of the entire population of male citizens over 17 years of age. Furthermore, the ruinous effect these defeats had on morale was such that most of southern Italy defected to Hannibal's cause, thus prolonging the war for a decade.
In addition to the wholesale destruction of Rome’s armies, the most crucial damage inflicted by Hannibal’s invasion of Italy was the total collapse of Rome’s young monetary system. At that time, the Roman currency was based entirely on bronze, for which the demand in wartime was competing with the needs for weaponry. The weights of the bronze currency were radically decreased, and it therefore became necessary to make bronze convertible to silver, which, however, was also in short supply. The strain on the Roman treasury was extreme. The decision was therefore taken in c. 216 BC to issue a gold coinage as an attempt to provide further stability for and increase faith in the bronze coinage by creating the impression that bronze could be freely exchanged for gold, thus making the token bronze coinage acceptable.
The types of this new gold coinage were evidently given some consideration, and in the event were highly appropriate. A Meadows (‘The Mars / eagle and thunderbolt gold and Ptolemaic involvement in the Second Punic War’ in Essays Hersh, 1998) writes: “the oath scene gold, as befitted its status as a creator of confidence in the new denominational system, was something of a showpiece. Its design reflected the ambience of ‘strength through co-operation’ that the Roman state sought to emphasise at the time of its production. That the unity of Rome and her allies was a very live issue in 216 BC is clear from the defections that followed the disastrous battle of Cannae in that very year.”
ROMA13, 536