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Öskü, 29 December 2020 11:55 – The Class 242 locomotive (nicknamed Plehács) used by Slovakian Petrolsped is one of the weaker freight locomotives, only capable of delivering 3080 kW of power, which is about half of the previously seen Vectron’s or Phoenix’s numbers. It climbs the 8 ‰ slope slower and noisier, but not like it’s delivering marshmallows: the steel coils made at the ironworks of Eastern Slovakia departed from Enyicke station, near Košice, and they’re heading to Koper, Slovenia. As the Plehács is an AC system locomotive, it only forwards the wagons between Hidasnémeti and Hodos. The tiny grey and yellow blocks rising above the hills in the background are Várpalota’s blocks of flats.