Saturday, May 14, 2011
Beautiful flowers
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Cute Chocolate and Farmer's Market
This Saturday is so nice outside, so I just could not spend the entire day in my apartment working on my perl programming project. So I went out to the farmer's market in the city center to get some fresh air and fresh veggies.
Well back to work on my project. Thank for all the love and support.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sorry for not posting lately.....
Sorry for not posting lately but I do have a valid reason why. For the past 12 weeks I have been taking a perl programming course. Some of my close family members may have heared me complaining about this course. Yes I have learned a lot at the cost of of sleep, exhausted brain cells and pure frustration.
Anyways a big perl programming project is due in a few days so all my free time right now is being spent on this. So just letting every one know: yes I am ok.
I was able to get a whole bunch of great pictures of all the flowers blooming in the area near my apartment. I plan to post those as soon as I hand in this project.
Again thanks for all your love and support.
Anyways a big perl programming project is due in a few days so all my free time right now is being spent on this. So just letting every one know: yes I am ok.
I was able to get a whole bunch of great pictures of all the flowers blooming in the area near my apartment. I plan to post those as soon as I hand in this project.
Again thanks for all your love and support.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Danish Krones
While talking to my brother, he asked what does the money look like? Then I thought other people might be interested in what Danish Krones look like. Typically a Danish krone is about 18 US cents or about 5.5 Danish krones equal a US dollar.
Unlike US dollars, Danish krones paper bills come in different colors and sizes, at first I thought having bills in different colors and sizes was odd but I discovered that have different colors does make sorting my cash easier.
I have also seen Danish krones paper bills in 1000 kr. and 50 kr. I am not sure if there are paper bills larger than 1000 kr because I have seen anything larger then 1000kr. I did not have any other bills in my wallet when I took these pictures.
You can also see that the other side of the bills have different image on the papers bills, however I do not know what the images on the paper bills are.
When I first arrived in Denmark it was really difficult for me to figure out which Danish coin was which because the 20 kr and 10 kr look very similar AND the 5 kr and 2 kr look very similar.
Recently a friend of my noticed that she had a special issue coin, she told me the history behind the coin. This particular coin was designed by Queen Margrethe II for her 25 wedding anniversary to Prince Henrik in 1992.
I hope everyone has a great Easter and enjoy the spring weather!! Thank you for your love and support.
Unlike US dollars, Danish krones paper bills come in different colors and sizes, at first I thought having bills in different colors and sizes was odd but I discovered that have different colors does make sorting my cash easier.
When I first arrived in Denmark it was really difficult for me to figure out which Danish coin was which because the 20 kr and 10 kr look very similar AND the 5 kr and 2 kr look very similar.
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| In this picture the top row is the Danish coins in this order: 20kr, 5kr, 2kr, 1kr and then 50 øre (.5kr). The gap between the 20kr and the 5kr is where the 10kr is supposed to me but I did not have one when I took this picture. The second row is the US coins I still had in this order: quarter, penny and a dime. I just wanted to show the Danish coins next to the US coins for a size comparison. |
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| 20 krone coin next to a quarter for size comparison. |
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| 10 krone coin next to a quarter. |
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| 5 krone coin with a quarter. |
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| 2 krone coin with a quarter. |
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| 1 krone coin, Penny, 50 øre (.5 kr) |
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| This is the coin design done by Queen Margrethe II. You can see the 25 in the heart above the door. I am not sure what the house, door, sun and moon are supposed to represent. |
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| Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik |
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Ouch........
So many of my family members know I have been sending letters and cards to family back in the United States. Since I moved here the price for stamps to send letters has been 9.5 krones (~$1.75).
But now the price for stamps has increased to 13 kr (~$2.37).
The price increased by 3.5 krones (~$0.65). After going through such a huge increase in price those 4 cent stamp increases do not seem so bad.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Spring in Denmark
While waiting for the bus after a day at work I noticed how clear the air was around the bus stop, I could see for miles. Before this day I did not know that there were windmills in the distance. People at work wonder why do I carry my camera with me where ever I go...to capture moments like these is exactly why. I hope you enjoy all the pictures.
Thank you for all the love and support.
Thank you for all the love and support.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Denmark National Railway Museum
During the Christmas break, my boyfriend C come over to Denmark. For the few of you who know C, you all know that this is a major feat. This is because C really really hates to fly, so it meant a lot to me when he come over to visit.
So while C was with me I thought it would be a good idea to go the Denmark National Railway Museum since C has some a family history with trains in the US.
We had to travel about 30 minutes by train to a town called Odense (pronounced Olens). The railway museum was quite close to the actual train station by quite close I mean right next door.
In the infancy of the railways, train engines or horses were used for all shunting. This usually worked well but it was always difficult to pull the wagons up to the station on the steep harbor line in Århus.
The first shunting locomotives were quite small, with an upright boiler and not driver's cab. A shunting foreman once demonstrated their lack of traction by having a horse pull one of the "coffee-grinders' past the windows of the senior engineer, John Blair.
L 2 was saved for posterity thanks to the fact that it was used for many years as a stationary steam boiler. In 1928, it was rescued from oblivion and reconstructed to join its venerable friends in the future Railway Museum.
The oldest railway coaches were almost always built as compartment coaches - practically linked stagecoaches on shared wheels. The passengers were locked into their compartments when the train departed and got their tickets inspected through the windows.
BJ 665 was originally supplied with compartments for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class. In 1888 toilets were installed in the coach and a small saloon, which was mainly reserved for ladies on long journeys.
Denmark's great story teller, Hans Christian Anderson, tells in his memories how dreadful it was for him to travel in a railway coach without direct access to a toilet when his stomach was trying itself in knots from sheer excitement. Apart from that the author loved traveling by train - that was life itself!
The E machines were the largest express train locomotives in service with DSB, originally an abbreviation of Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways).
In 1937, DSB brought 11 Swedish steam locomotives (Swedish Class F). they were from 1914-1916 and had been scrapped after the introduction of electrically run trains on the Swedish railways. New, heavy steel carriages, higher speeds and an increase in traffic had created the need in the 1930s for higher locomotives in DSB. After considerable alterations, which included adapting the Swedish machines to right hand drive, they came into service with the liter designation E.
And so it was one of the new E-type machines that came to pull the train with the brand-new royal carriage with the Storstrøm Bridge was officially opened in September 1937.
Traffic continued to increase and during the years of the German occupation 1940-45, the need of motive power was enormous. DSB was highly satisfied with the E machines and since it was not possible to plan any new type of locomotive, Frichs' factories factories in Århus came to build a total of 25 new E-type machines between 1942 and 1950, using the old Swedish drawings with only a few alterations. E 994 belongs to this series.
The locomotives were built with a maximum performance of 1,500 hp and a top speed of 127 kph. The maximum speed in Denmark was set at 110 kph. The engines pulled both express trains and large through goods trains.
Towards 1970, DSB's steam locomotives were scrapped including the E-type machines.
A couple of the original Swedish machines have returned to Sweden and are owned by the railway museum in Gavle.
A couple of the Danish built E type machines are owned by the Danish Railway Museum: E 991 fromo 1947 is stationed in Randers and is used for veteran train rides, while E 994 is on show here at the museum.
E 994 carried out one of its last assignments on 24 January 1972, when it pulled the train carrying King Frederik IX's bier from Copenhagen to Roskilde.
Diesel-electric locomotive MY 1112
NOHAB 1956
When the State Railways were to find a replacement for their steam locomotives after the war, the choice lay between electrically powered or diesel driven locomotives. The introduction of electrically run machines would be relatively costly because of the considerable expense involved in, among other things, setting up thousands of masts with cables as well as electrical equipment. So diesel engines were chosen sited.
DSB then ordered diesel locomotives of an American type (General Motors). The machines were to be built under licence by the Swedish factory Nydquist & Holm (NOHAB).
This type of locomotive was given the liter designation MY. The first locomotive, made in 1954, now runs in its original colours for DSB Museum Trains.
The principle underlying these diesel-electric locomotives is that a diesel engine powers an electric generator. This then supplies current to a number of traction motors, which in turn drive the wheels.
The locomotive has a V-shaped, 16-cylinder, two-stroke diesel engine, which intros version, produces 1,950 hp. There are 4 traction motors, Weight: 101.6 tons. Length from buffer to buffer: 18.9 metros. Max. speed: 133 kph.
In the 1954-65 period, a total of 59 of the Swedish/American MY locomotives wer made. For many years, they were an exceptionally stable motive power - for goods trains, regional trains and long-distance trains. Most of them have now been scrapped . A few have been sold to private Danish railway lines or to foreign railway companies.
In the early days of the railway, all points levers and signals were operated manually at the points. But by the end of the 1800s, the first centrally operated systems started to be put into service.
This allowed trains to be run far more efficiently with modest staffing, at the same time as significantly improving safety.
The first systems were purely mechanical. Signals and points levers were tripped using an ingenious system of wire works that were directly connected to handles and pulleys of the interlocking frame.
The yellow handles operate signals, the red operate points levers and the green operate the points-lever lock that makes sure the points levers are kept in the correct position.
As each handle was mechanically connected only one train at a time could be sent on the same track.
Model of section of the Great Belt Tunnel
Between Sprogø and Korsør the railway passes through a tunnel beneath the Geat Belt. The tunnel was built in 1988-96, is 8,024 metros long and consists of two separate tubes with a railway track in each. The two tubes are linked by 31 transverse tunnels that function both as emergency exits and contain important installations.
Data:
The 40 cm think walls of the tunnel comprise a total of 62,500 cement sections that have been bolted together. From the sea bed to the top of the tunnel there is between 12 and 40 metros. At ist deepest point the tunnel is 75 meters below the surface of the sea.
To get to Odense we had to travel though this tunnel, amazingly the ride was so smooth I could not really tell went though an underwater tunnel. I really enjoyed spending time with C and I enjoyed looking at all the trains.
Thank you for all your love and support.
So while C was with me I thought it would be a good idea to go the Denmark National Railway Museum since C has some a family history with trains in the US.
We had to travel about 30 minutes by train to a town called Odense (pronounced Olens). The railway museum was quite close to the actual train station by quite close I mean right next door.
In the infancy of the railways, train engines or horses were used for all shunting. This usually worked well but it was always difficult to pull the wagons up to the station on the steep harbor line in Århus.
The first shunting locomotives were quite small, with an upright boiler and not driver's cab. A shunting foreman once demonstrated their lack of traction by having a horse pull one of the "coffee-grinders' past the windows of the senior engineer, John Blair.
L 2 was saved for posterity thanks to the fact that it was used for many years as a stationary steam boiler. In 1928, it was rescued from oblivion and reconstructed to join its venerable friends in the future Railway Museum.
The oldest railway coaches were almost always built as compartment coaches - practically linked stagecoaches on shared wheels. The passengers were locked into their compartments when the train departed and got their tickets inspected through the windows.
BJ 665 was originally supplied with compartments for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class. In 1888 toilets were installed in the coach and a small saloon, which was mainly reserved for ladies on long journeys.
Denmark's great story teller, Hans Christian Anderson, tells in his memories how dreadful it was for him to travel in a railway coach without direct access to a toilet when his stomach was trying itself in knots from sheer excitement. Apart from that the author loved traveling by train - that was life itself!
In 1937, DSB brought 11 Swedish steam locomotives (Swedish Class F). they were from 1914-1916 and had been scrapped after the introduction of electrically run trains on the Swedish railways. New, heavy steel carriages, higher speeds and an increase in traffic had created the need in the 1930s for higher locomotives in DSB. After considerable alterations, which included adapting the Swedish machines to right hand drive, they came into service with the liter designation E.
And so it was one of the new E-type machines that came to pull the train with the brand-new royal carriage with the Storstrøm Bridge was officially opened in September 1937.
Traffic continued to increase and during the years of the German occupation 1940-45, the need of motive power was enormous. DSB was highly satisfied with the E machines and since it was not possible to plan any new type of locomotive, Frichs' factories factories in Århus came to build a total of 25 new E-type machines between 1942 and 1950, using the old Swedish drawings with only a few alterations. E 994 belongs to this series.
The locomotives were built with a maximum performance of 1,500 hp and a top speed of 127 kph. The maximum speed in Denmark was set at 110 kph. The engines pulled both express trains and large through goods trains.
Towards 1970, DSB's steam locomotives were scrapped including the E-type machines.
A couple of the original Swedish machines have returned to Sweden and are owned by the railway museum in Gavle.
A couple of the Danish built E type machines are owned by the Danish Railway Museum: E 991 fromo 1947 is stationed in Randers and is used for veteran train rides, while E 994 is on show here at the museum.
E 994 carried out one of its last assignments on 24 January 1972, when it pulled the train carrying King Frederik IX's bier from Copenhagen to Roskilde.
NOHAB 1956
When the State Railways were to find a replacement for their steam locomotives after the war, the choice lay between electrically powered or diesel driven locomotives. The introduction of electrically run machines would be relatively costly because of the considerable expense involved in, among other things, setting up thousands of masts with cables as well as electrical equipment. So diesel engines were chosen sited.
DSB then ordered diesel locomotives of an American type (General Motors). The machines were to be built under licence by the Swedish factory Nydquist & Holm (NOHAB).
This type of locomotive was given the liter designation MY. The first locomotive, made in 1954, now runs in its original colours for DSB Museum Trains.
The principle underlying these diesel-electric locomotives is that a diesel engine powers an electric generator. This then supplies current to a number of traction motors, which in turn drive the wheels.
The locomotive has a V-shaped, 16-cylinder, two-stroke diesel engine, which intros version, produces 1,950 hp. There are 4 traction motors, Weight: 101.6 tons. Length from buffer to buffer: 18.9 metros. Max. speed: 133 kph.
In the 1954-65 period, a total of 59 of the Swedish/American MY locomotives wer made. For many years, they were an exceptionally stable motive power - for goods trains, regional trains and long-distance trains. Most of them have now been scrapped . A few have been sold to private Danish railway lines or to foreign railway companies.
This allowed trains to be run far more efficiently with modest staffing, at the same time as significantly improving safety.
The first systems were purely mechanical. Signals and points levers were tripped using an ingenious system of wire works that were directly connected to handles and pulleys of the interlocking frame.
The yellow handles operate signals, the red operate points levers and the green operate the points-lever lock that makes sure the points levers are kept in the correct position.
As each handle was mechanically connected only one train at a time could be sent on the same track.
Model of section of the Great Belt Tunnel
Between Sprogø and Korsør the railway passes through a tunnel beneath the Geat Belt. The tunnel was built in 1988-96, is 8,024 metros long and consists of two separate tubes with a railway track in each. The two tubes are linked by 31 transverse tunnels that function both as emergency exits and contain important installations.
Data:
The 40 cm think walls of the tunnel comprise a total of 62,500 cement sections that have been bolted together. From the sea bed to the top of the tunnel there is between 12 and 40 metros. At ist deepest point the tunnel is 75 meters below the surface of the sea.
To get to Odense we had to travel though this tunnel, amazingly the ride was so smooth I could not really tell went though an underwater tunnel. I really enjoyed spending time with C and I enjoyed looking at all the trains.
Thank you for all your love and support.
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