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42179-2 (home depot Varna) in depot Ruse after using a freight train. Digital photo Veselin Malinov , e-mail: malinov.veselin99@gmail.com Website: http://nightphotos.fotopic.net

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42179-2 in depot Varna before general repair. Digital photo Veselin Malinov , e-mail: malinov.veselin99@gmail.com

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42179-2 on central railway station Varna with morning Suburban train from Shumen. Digital photo Veselin Malinov , e-mail: malinov.veselin99@gmail.com Website: http://nightphotos.fotopic.net

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BDZ electric locomotive class 42.179 at railway station Ruse-razpredelitelna,16.02.2010. Digital photo by Chavdar Nikolov. E-mail: chavdar.nikolov@gmail.com

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A view from central railway station Varna. Digital photo Veselin Malinov , e-mail: malinov.veselin99@gmail.com Website: http://nightphotos.fotopic.net

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AT DAWN: Down from the mountain comes a train of empty tank cars hauled by two machines from the depot of Varna. Leading the way is locomotive 42 179 and behind it is locomotive 42 081 - the last in the class 42 which is still wearing its original laminated body. Karnobat, 7 August 2006 Photo and scan by Miroslav Georgiev (miroslav_sg@all.bg)

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Class-42 locomotives of BDZ have had a very dramatic fate. Delivered in the late 1960s, originally they had state-of-the-art laminated bodies with distinctive large windscreens. As time went on, the machines changed their elegant looks with hastily crafted bodies reminiscent of those on class-43 locomotives. Through the 1980s and the 1990s most of the 42s were gradually scrapped and the original fleet of 90 units was reduced to just 7 by 2005. Only one of them is still in its original outfit - the rest have been re-numbered to class 42 1xx. All of the units still in regular service are based at the depot of Varna and service a variety of freight trains. On this particular photo locomotive 42 179.2 is passing through the station Sindel Razpredelitelna with a freight train from Varna to Kaspichan. Apparently 42s have a very loud low-pitched horn tone - I could hear this one coming from as far away as Razdelna. Bliss! 9 December 2005 Photo and scan by Miroslav Georgiev (miroslav_sg@all.bg)

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CHANGE: Locomotives of the class 42 are usually hauling freight trains but on rare occasions they may be seen on passenger duties. Here locomotive 42 179 is photographed during its stop at Trustikovo with a stopping service Varna - Sindel. 26 June 2007 Photo by Miroslav Georgiev (miroslav_sg@all.bg)

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After a short passenger service (see photo above) locomotive 42 179 could be seen on freight duties again, ready to depart from Razdelna with a set of tank cars. 26 June 2007 Photo by Miroslav Georgiev (miroslav_sg@all.bg)