Jim van der Kolk

Jim van der Kolk (born: ) is a Dutch railfanner, cars fan, and Transformers fan from Rotterdam, Netherlands. He focuses on American, British, Canadian (sometimes in Overpowered Steam Productions' Burning Subjects Livestream Series), German steam locomotives, cars (sometimes), and Transformers. He also collaborates with Christopher Kovacs in both of his Top 10 Retired Steam Excursion Stars (Parts 1-3) lists and Top 20 Favorite UK & US Steam Locomotives lists along with Tom, AJ.
== Early Life ==
Jim van der Kolk was on April 22, 1996 by a Dutch couple in Rotterdam, Netherlands. During his childhood, his family introduced him into trains especially Thomas & Friends. It became his favorite hobby until he started watching Transformers, cars and the British Reality TV Series "Top Gear".
== Early YouTube Life ==
Jim joined YouTube on May 8, 2010 and started posting Transformers content before posting railfan, cars, and sometimes Top Gear content during the 2013-2017 before he took them down and private them himself. He started posting British and German steam locomotive videos on YouTube before watching some people's Top Extinct British and American Steam Locomotives videos until he decided to collaborate with Christopher Kovacs to make his Top 10 Retired Steam Locomotives from the UK and US (In 3 separate parts) between Friday, August 19, 2016-Wednesday, September 21, 2016.
=== Top 10 Retired Steam Locomotives from the UK and US ===
10. Norfolk & Western Y6B 2-8-8-2 Compound Mallet #2174
9. Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Heavy Challenger #3967
8. Great Western Railway King Class 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #6000 "King George V
7. Great Western Railway Castle Class 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #5051 "Earl Bathurst (Originally Named "Drsellwyn Castle")
6. Chesapeake & Ohio J3A 4-8-4 Greenbrier #614
5. Chesapeake & Ohio K4 2-8-4 Kanawha #2716
4. Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis) S2 2-8-4 Berkshire #759
Side Segment: Great Eastern Railway D56 Class/London & Northeastern Railway D15 Class 4-4-0 American #8783 "Claud Hamilton"
3. London, Midland, & Scottish Railway Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 Pacific #6229 "Duchess of Hamilton"
2. London & Northeastern Railway A4 Class 4-6-2 Pacific #4468 "Mallard"
== Honorable Mentions ==
# London & Northeastern Railway V2 Class 2-6-2 Prairie #4771 "Green Arrow"
# Great Eastern Railway D56 Class/London & Northeastern Railway D15 Class 4-4-0 American #8783 "Claud Hamilton" (Mentioned Again)
# All of the surviving Reading T1 4-8-4 Northerns #2100, #2101, #2102, & #2124
# Savannah & Atlanta/Florida East Coast 4-6-2 Pacific #750 (#80)
# Grand Trunk Western S3A 2-8-2 Mikado #4070 (#3734)
# Grand Trunk Western K4A 4-6-2 Pacific #5629 & Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy (Burlington Route) O5B 4-8-4 Northern #5632
# Pennsylvania Railroad K4 4-6-2 Pacific #1361
# Atlanta & West Point P74 4-6-2 Pacific #290
# Cotton Belt L1 4-8-4 Northern #819
# Frisco T54 4-8-2 Mountain #1522
# Norfolk & Western A 2-6-6-4 Simple Adriatic Articulated #1218
Then between Friday, October 28, 2016-Wednesday, November 2, 2016 he made his own Top 20 Extinct UK & US Steam Locomotives video (In 2 separate parts)
== His Opinion Changes ==
=== Thomas & Friends ===
In his Top 10 Least Favorite UK & US Steam Locomotives video in the comment section when someone mentioned "Why nowadays that he hates Thomas & Friends" is because when he was little in elementary school when he had a school project going on, he was bullied by the other students for probably adding Thomas The Tank Engine in his steam locomotive project. This might've made him want to Google up Thomas' basis which is a London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway E2 Class 0-6-0 Switcher (Shunter) Tank Engine Type Steam Locomotive and their information of how terrible they were designed by their designer Lawson Billinton and especially their failures during their revenue services from 1913-1963. Then when Jim found out that Thomas was based off an LB&SCR E2, he realized how really useless in real life and Thomas being an embarrassment to railway and enthusiasm. And so he nowadays decided to hate on him which is inevitably his opinion on him and the E2s because of this. And previously mentioned earlier on October 31, 2018, he finally made his Top 10 Least Favorite UK & US Steam Locomotives video and even scared some TTTE fans with Shed 17 at the end of the LB&SCR E2 segment.
Category:Dutch YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010