Thursday, March 26, 2015

NS Mat'34 diesel multiple units

Photos of what is said to be the original livery show bands of red above the cab windows (where the three lights are) and at the bottom above the (Scharfenberg) coupler area and the rest silver, rather than what is shown here. It's likely the artist had only seen a b/w photo.

A total 40 sets were built and had a 2 '(A1A) (A1A)' 2 ' axle arrangement. All were withdrawn by 1964. At least one is preserved, in the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht.

This one happened to be in Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, the day Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the city by bombing.

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