Sunrise at the freight yard of the station in Yambol. Locomotive 44-057 of the Bulgarian State Railways passes with a fast passenger train from Burgas to Sofia. You can tell that the train is fast and not express by the first car behind the locomotive. It is used for baggage and postal consignments. Such cars are never attached to express trains. Some of the technical characteristics of this Skoda locomotive are:

<br>Power: 3140 kWt
<br>Voltage/frequency: 25kV/50Hz
<br>Tractive load: 84 tonnes
<br>Max. speed: 130 km/h
<br>Year of production: 1974

Photo and scan by: Miroslav Georgiev (Miroslav_SG@all.bg)