Potvis - When Streamlining Fails Successfully

NS has a reputation of taking a good idea and making it worse. However, there was a moment in time where NS altered a winning formula and ended up with a success - if only for the wrong reasons! Locomotives called every derogatory name for an air-smoothed loco, we take a look at the Nederlandse Spoorwegen's first streamlined locomotive - the 3800-3805 series, better known as... Potvis? SOURCES AND CREDIT Photograph of 3724 on a freight train by Nederlandse Spoorwegen, fotograaf - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 159927, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91225851 Photograph of 3804 being presented outside Tilburg works by Polygoon, Nederlands Fotobureau - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 161151, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91778607 Photograph of 3804 hauling two carriages around Amersfoort - 160309 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief Photograph of 3804 hauling a train away from Utrecht Centraal Station - 170022 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief Photograph of 3804 stood outside Centrale Werkplaats Tilburg by Vereenigde Fotobureaux, N.V., fotograaf - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 155475, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91227848 Photograph of 3804 with her casing doors open by 806930 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/3B83E1AE1B675735B4373D81707D80CA, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86530207 Photograph of 3916 with a train of steel carriages by 160475 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/27574481C1F855DB8B3A2FF6E9F16AA2, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87526924 Photograph of a train of Mat '34 running out of Utrecht Centraal Station by Utrechts Archief - Collectie van het Utrechts Archief, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68449250 Photograph of "Der Fliegenden Hamburger" by Copyright 1936 by F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig - Der neue Brockhaus, Leipzig 1938, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31960714 Photograph of London & North Eastern Railway's 'Silver Jubilee' train outside King's Cross, London by Unknown author - The Scotsman, 28 September 1935, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62569252 Photograph of the metal casing under construction at Tilburg by 806930 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/3B83E1AE1B675735B4373D81707D80CA, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86530207 Study of 3804 by Utrechts Archief - Collectie van het Utrechts Archief, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68449240 Study of 3804 (a droit) - 808573 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief Literary sources: 'De Nederlandse Stoomlocomotieven' by R.C. Statius Muller & A.J. Veenendaal, published by Uitgeverij De Alk Bv 'Stroomlijn op het spoor' by Carel van Gestel, published by W Books LINKS Discord server - https://discord.gg/PtekEPJ Twitter - https://twitter.com/TeaWithCaramel1 Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty (Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400051 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ ) Channel icon by Dean Walker - https://bsky.app/profile/ohlookitstrainart.bsky.social #NS