Hollandsche IJzeren

1910 · NS 3700 · Work 26 of 1,871

Hollandsche IJzeren, 1910, NS 3700

A Dutch NS 3700 locomotive, a single 4-6-0 tender engine: a four-wheel leading bogie in front, three large coupled driving wheels on each side, a Belpaire firebox with flat-topped sides in front of the cab, its tender on its own axles coupled behind, only one locomotive in the whole image, running on a single track that crosses a low bridge over a canal, the rails lying on top of the bridge deck and nothing but water passing beneath the bridge, polder landscape stretching flat to the horizon, windmill silhouette far off.

What it was used for
Express services of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij.