The Night Mail

[SM42]

Aaaannnd 

 

We're  playing the long game.

 

Andy

[Winslow Boy]

1 minute ago, SM42 said:

Aaaannnd 

 

We're  playing the long game.

 

Andy

 

Please keep your arms inside the car at all times.

When the seat belt sign is illuminated please remain seated.

Just before impact you will hear the following; +BRACE+BRACE+BRACE.

[PhilJ W]

22 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Only if you come and collect it. Just remember this time I'm not accepting the coffee jar full of change. It took ages to count it, then  had to take it to the bank.

 

Have you ever stood in a queue with 8 pounds -thats weight by the way, of 5 p's, 4 pounds of 10 p's and 2 pounds of 50 p's. No strike that you might have knowing you lot.

 

So bring your debit card as I've gone digital alright.

 

Your friendly neighborhood drug dealer.

That reminds me of when I worked behind the counter for the post office, almost sixty years ago. Quite often people used to come in with bags of coins to 'change up'. We used to bag them up according to the denomination and then weighed them to check the amount knowing that 10/- worth of (pre-decimal) pennies weighed a given amount. Certain coins were quite rare* or could be very old** and we knew what to look for and separate them out. *Some Victorian /Edwardian pennies had letters alongside the year indicating that it was minted in other than the Royal Mint. **I once found a 1779 halfpenny in one of the bags of coin. A coin dealer used to call in every now and then and buy the coins, the proceeds went into the staff Christmas fund. 

[SM42]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Please keep your arms inside the car at all times.

When the seat belt sign is illuminated please remain seated.

Just before impact you will hear the following; +BRACE+BRACE+BRACE.

 

The gin bottle is bracing itself along with the vodka bottle 🤪

 

Andy

[pH]

6 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

… we knew what to look for and separate them out …

It would be too late by that point, but if you were receiving coins directly in payment, it was always worth checking that foreign coins hadn’t been slipped in. Pre-decimalisation, Channel Islands, South Africa etc. used to have coins of the same appearance as the equivalent British ones. And the odd European coin could substitute for (more valuable) British ones.

Edited January 29, 2023 by pH
Less is more.

[J. S. Bach]

I would occasionally find (mostly) foreign coins in the reject slot on the bus farebox and sometimes wonder how/why certain ones ended up in there. The three most memorable were from France, Dubai, and Norway.

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[SM42]

0210hrs

 

Still going. 😵

 

 

Andy

[SM42]

Goodnight.

 

At last

 

Andy

[polybear]

8 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Like I said, it depends on the noise the Deltic makes. Just an electric hum = £170 ish whereas lots of bells, whistles, rumblings, horns etc. = about £230. Not being a DCC afficionado I can't offer an opinion on partial or full except that I sometimes wish at exhibitions that it was banned from diesel motive power depot layouts.

 

Dave 

 

The noisy one is currently £260.

 

7 hours ago, SM42 said:

 

That's 3 rates. 

 

Which one is in use ?

 

I think any Deltic conversion  rate should specify either Deltic ( fs) Deltic (ns) or Deltic (r) so we know which is in use in any given exchange calculation. 

 

One Deltic (fs) is around 30% more than one Deltic ( r) 

 

Or we could just choose one for future use

 

Meanwhile. 

Lots of police cars heading into town 

 

What are those girls up to?

 

Andy

 

Newsflash.

Just had urgent call for a pick up down the road from the pub. 😬

 

On the Beary Currency Exchange 1 Deltic = 170 Tokens

[AndyID]

Back home after burglaring about on skis in Utah and Colorado. Managed two days at Alta, one at Snowbasin and four at Snowmass. The snow was great but it was a bit chilly. For the first time ever I used chemical heater thingies in my gloves to try to warm my hands.

 

My usual route is through Montana but I rerouted via Boise on the return trip to avoid some serious snow. The drive North on Idaho Highway 95 was spectacular. I didn't have my camera and I wanted to get home but it's supposed to be sunshine tomorrow and I will try to get some pics.

[Happy Hippo]

I returned home yesterday, having been on holiday, and am quite worn out!

 

I know I was tired last night, as I woke up this morning, looked out of the window and saw the tailgate of the BMW open.  It was dark when we got home and I'd failed to shut it.  (Un)fortunately  the car is of such advanced years that any self respecting car thief would want to be seen driving around in it.  My immediate concern was whether leaving the tailgate open would have meant the courtesy lights staying on over night and flattening the battery;  My rush outside to try and see if it would start was not needed as it all fired up as soon as the key was turned in the ignition.

 

Poor old Nyda has remained in bed this morning, as on Friday she started a head cold, the first she's had since before lockdown, and she is suffering somewhat.  I hope I will remain unaffected (I usually do!)

 

I decided against taking any modelling materiel away with me, although I did take my planning book so I was able to plot and scheme and draw up a number of rather long project lists.  As the combined length of these would have taken until well into the next century, I came to the conclusion that, some things would have to go as they would never get finished let alone started.

 

So I've come home full of enthusiasm, but to start getting rid of stuff that is just taking up space, which in turn means that I am continually having to de-clutter.

 

An obvious contender is the cupboard full of empty Dapol wagon boxes.  All my stock is in Really Useful Boxes, and since I'll be keeping the wagons until I finally keel over...  After that I don't suppose I'll be bothered about what happens to it all.

 

Likewise, do I really need my larger lathe and milling machines?  They've been virtually dormant for the past few years, and are just taking up space on the workshop bench.

 

I think that deep down, when I lifted my garden line early last year, I knew it would probably not be put down again, at least in it's current format, so I need to consider whether to sell off my fleet.

 

Well it would be one thing less to worry about:  The same can be said for my 7.25" gauge project!

 

I'm not being morose about any of this, just realistic.

 

After all with less stuff I'll have more time to spend on that that I do have.

 

As they say, Less is more.

 

 

[Gwiwer]

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

The snow was great but it was a bit chilly

If it wasn't chilly it would be called "rain" 

[BoD]

4 hours ago, polybear said:

 

The noisy one is currently £260.

 

 

On the Beary Currency Exchange 1 Deltic = 170 Tokens

Being a practising skinflint I would baulk at spending a whole Deltic so, like other currencies, we need a suitable subdivision.  Centideltic doesn’t sound right so can I ask my learned friends …

 

1 Deltic = 100 what?

[Northmoor]

21 minutes ago, BoD said:

Being a practising skinflint I would baulk at spending a whole Deltic so, like other currencies, we need a suitable subdivision.  Centideltic doesn’t sound right so can I ask my learned friends …

 

1 Deltic = 100 what?

You can get about 12 Limadeltics to the Deltic on some currency exchanges.

 

@Happy HippoWelcome back; remember to sell your empty boxes on eBay.  It's amazing how many modelling tokens or Penderyns - other currencies are available - they can generate from people who want to sell wagons as "never out of the box" (yeah right, never out of the last one it was put in).

 

[Happy Hippo]

23 minutes ago, BoD said:

Being a practising skinflint I would baulk at spending a whole Deltic so, like other currencies, we need a suitable subdivision.  Centideltic doesn’t sound right so can I ask my learned friends …

 

1 Deltic = 100 what?

I think the full table goes like this

 

1 x Deltic = 100 A3 Pacifics

1 x Deltic = 50 Bullied Light Pacifics

1 x Deltic = 25 Princess Coronations

1 x Deltic = 10 Midland Compounds

1 x Deltic = 5 Class 37

1 x Deltic = 2 Bullied Q1

1  x Deltic = 1 Deltic

 

I believe the Deltic is considered fractional when it comes to ex GWR currency.

 

 

[Tony_S]

I have a model of the prototype Deltic but none of the others. I do have a Fell though and I assume that is equivalent to a Deltic in a currency exchange. 

[SM42]

As far as I remember there are 5 Vanwides to a Deltic ( r) 

 

Andy

[iL Dottore]

As someone who has to deal with model railway currencies in 4 places (UK, US, EU and Switzerland), I think that I can say that the current rates are as follows:

• 1 BR Deltic = £216.66 (the Accurascale D9000 - BR Green w/cantrail (VXC) - DCC Sound Fitted)
• 1 SBB Crocodile = CHF 476.25 (the Märklin 39595 Elektrolokomotive CE 6/8 II Krokodil SBB)
• 1 Royal Bavarian State Railways S2/6 = 670,90 € (the BRAWA H0 Dampflok S2/6 der K.Bay.Sts.B. DCC Sound)
• 1 Union Pacific Big Boy = $749.99 (Precision Craft Models HO scale 4-8-8-4 Big Boy DCC fitted)

Currently I am being paid in Big Boys, but my expenditures are in Crocodiles, whilst discretionary (modelling) spending is in Deltics. So if I have 1.6 Big boys/month for modelling needs that would give me 4.48 Deltics, 2.32 Crocodiles or 1.64 RBSR S2/6.

 

I do have a question - what do other TNMs do with their small change (the odd Dapol 7 plank, Hornby horse box or Bachmann Toad, etc.)? Do you let it just accumulate in a cupboard or give it to charity?

 

[jamie92208]

Simples, my dear Herr Doktor, the loose change just buys more wagon kits to overload the shelves of shame or is spent replenishing the small tool and fastener stocks to replace all of those things that have found their way down the black hole in the muddlung room floor since the last purchase.

 

However speaking as a modeller of things Midland in a larger scale perhaps the unit should be either a Slaters Compound kit, 2 Full fat noisy Deltics, or a Finney Duchess with wheels and plates.  The latter is roughly  3 full fat Deltics.

 

I did however pick up an unstarted Compound for I Deltic on the Bring and Buy.  The only thing missing was the instructions.  It is still reposing on one of the shelves of shame

 

Jamie

Edited January 29, 2023 by jamie92208

[Happy Hippo]

26 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Simples, my dear Herr Doktor, the loose change just buys more wagon kits to overload the shelves of shame or is spent replenishing the small tool and fastener stocks to replace all of those things that have found their way down the black hole in the muddlung room floor since the last purchase.

 

However speaking as a modeller of things Midland in a larger scale perhaps the unit should be either a Slaters Compound kit, 2 Full fat noisy Deltics, or a Finney Duchess with wheels and plates.  The latter is roughly  3 full fat Deltics.

 

I did however pick up an unstarted Compound for I Deltic on the Bring and Buy.  The only thing missing was the instructions.  It is still reposing on one of the shelves of shame

 

Jamie

Had you perused a facsimile of the instructions prior to purchase, they would have stated:

 

'Do not purchase this kit!'

[polybear]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

• 1 BR Deltic = £216.66 (the Accurascale D9000 - BR Green w/cantrail (VXC) - DCC Sound Fitted)

 

You'll be lucky......

[Gwiwer]

According to the late Douglas Adams there are three freely-interchangeable currencies.  

 

"The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed.  Flanian Pobble-beads are only exchangeable for other Flanian Pobble-beads and the Triganic Pu is so large that no-one has yet been able to own one.  The exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is easy enough but the Galactic Banks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. "

 

Where do Deltics fit in?  

[SM42]

24 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

 

 

Where do Deltics fit in?  

 

On the shelf to the left of the wagon kits I think 

 

Andy

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

You'll be lucky......

That’s the pre-order Accurascale website price.

 

Other prices may be available….