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Viewing Album:  CSX S&N Yard and Surroundings during Spring 2012
 
By:Hank Stephens
Dates:4/3/2012 - 4/3/2012
Album Info:My better half had an all day meeting at HMMA. I volunteered to drive and spent most of the day shooting trains in Montgomery. Here are some of the results
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Seen these cars on the Georgia Central before, and now a few show up on a train headed toward Dothan.
Title:  Seen these cars on the Georgia Central before, and now a few show up on a train headed toward Dothan.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:32 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Close up of same car showing all the data--would make a great model!
Title:  Close up of same car showing all the data--would make a great model!
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:40 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Close up of Southeast Paper logo on ATW boxcar
Title:  Close up of Southeast Paper logo on ATW boxcar
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:39 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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CSX Chester Yard office trailer --this was the former WofA yard, now used for local train building and sorting
Title:  CSX Chester Yard office trailer --this was the former WofA yard, now used for local train building and sorting
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:48 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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CSX seems to be back in the short term lease business in the Spring of 2012 evidenced by this ex UP unit on local power tied down near the agency.
Title:  CSX seems to be back in the short term lease business in the Spring of 2012 evidenced by this ex UP unit on local power tied down near the agency.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:55 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CREX 9060(C40-8)
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Two Birmingham bound trains jockey for the yard lead at the north end of S&N Yard.
Title:  Two Birmingham bound trains jockey for the yard lead at the north end of S&N Yard.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:02:03 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 4730(SD70MAC)
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View of new north end of S&N Yard in Montgomery. The train is doubling into the inbound-outbound tracks. Notice the R/C lead second from left.
Title:  View of new north end of S&N Yard in Montgomery. The train is doubling into the inbound-outbound tracks. Notice the R/C lead second from left.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:00:15 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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A shot looking south into the classification portion of the north end of S&N yard. Two freights swap blocks while the R/C yard switcher hangs back in the classification tracks. The by-pass main is fartherest right
Title:  A shot looking south into the classification portion of the north end of S&N yard. Two freights swap blocks while the R/C yard switcher hangs back in the classification tracks. The by-pass main is fartherest right
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:00:22 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Road power on train yarding at north end of S&N Yard. The structures in the background are part of the city landfill.
Title:  Road power on train yarding at north end of S&N Yard. The structures in the background are part of the city landfill.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:00:37 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 51(AC44CW)
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A camera phone shot of a ex SCL rotary woodchip car on the A746 local in Opelika. These are a rarity on the AWP which uses Greenville hoppers with bottom doors. This one is making its way back to Montgomery after being routed to the AWP by error.
Title:  A camera phone shot of a ex SCL rotary woodchip car on the A746 local in Opelika. These are a rarity on the AWP which uses Greenville hoppers with bottom doors. This one is making its way back to Montgomery after being routed to the AWP by error.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:00:47 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Wide out shot of S&N yard looking from bridge over north end.
Title:  Wide out shot of S&N yard looking from bridge over north end.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:00:55 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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A rainy day in Manchester Georgia reveals no trains moving but a grain train with new Trimity hoppers tied down in front of the viewing platform.
Title:  A rainy day in Manchester Georgia reveals no trains moving but a grain train with new Trimity hoppers tied down in front of the viewing platform.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:02 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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This venerable switcher was working the South end of S&N Yard on my visit.
Title:  This venerable switcher was working the South end of S&N Yard on my visit.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:08 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 1185(MP15AC)
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Montgomery is a favored location for R/C control yard switchers using both locomotives equipped with the remote control and R/C sleds built so that any unit can be used that happens to be laying around. This unit was a pulpwood car in a former life, buil
Title:  Montgomery is a favored location for R/C control yard switchers using both locomotives equipped with the remote control and R/C sleds built so that any unit can be used that happens to be laying around. This unit was a pulpwood car in a former life, buil
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:18 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Mid-day sees yard and local road power gathering across from the air compressor house near the bypass bridge. Things get quiet in the afternoons, a far cry from the 1980s when I first visited where a train was moving all the time of some kind.
Title:  Mid-day sees yard and local road power gathering across from the air compressor house near the bypass bridge. Things get quiet in the afternoons, a far cry from the 1980s when I first visited where a train was moving all the time of some kind.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:01:25 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 1185(MP15AC) CSX 7317(C40-8W) CSX 2530(GP38-2)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:44 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  127   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:47:40 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:47:49 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:47:57 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:06 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:13 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
Title:  Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:19 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  KLWX 9552(GP40-2LW) WGCR 9554(GP40-2LW)
Views:  438   Comments: 1
Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
Title:  Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:27 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  KLWX 9552(GP40-2LW)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
Title:  Two G&O Railways ex CN GP40LW units sit at the S&N enginehouse for inspection and delivery to the Wiregrass Central in South Alabama.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:47 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 9554(GP40-2LW)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:54 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  126   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:48:59 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:06 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  135   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:12 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  112   Comments: 0
Shots around Montgomery Yard-close up of Birmingham bound manifest off the M&M sub
Title:  Shots around Montgomery Yard-close up of Birmingham bound manifest off the M&M sub
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:20 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 7318(C40-8W) CSX 7775(C40-8W)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
Northbound curves into easbound bypass that swings behind the locomotive service and car shop. The grassy field in the foreground and background is all that is left of the old South Yard portion of S&N yard.
Title:  Northbound curves into easbound bypass that swings behind the locomotive service and car shop. The grassy field in the foreground and background is all that is left of the old South Yard portion of S&N yard.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:28 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 7775(C40-8W)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
ATW boxcar on Dothan bound train from Montgomery Yard
Title:  ATW boxcar on Dothan bound train from Montgomery Yard
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:34 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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"local" power sitting across from Montgomery Agency building. These would leave out on A746 after lunch.
Title:  "local" power sitting across from Montgomery Agency building. These would leave out on A746 after lunch.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:40 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CREX 9060(C40-8) CSX 669(CW44-6)
Views:  308   Comments: 1
Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of northbound power
Title:  Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of northbound power
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:44 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 7317(C40-8W)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of road power resting at S&N yard pocket
Title:  Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of road power resting at S&N yard pocket
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:53 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 7828(C40-8W)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of R/C equipped Geep working south side of S&N yard trimming the classification tracks.
Title:  Shots around Montgomery Yard--roster shot of R/C equipped Geep working south side of S&N yard trimming the classification tracks.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:59 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 2530(GP38-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Shots around Montgomery Yard--gotta love a cool fire truck- MFD units sit in sun after a wash at the station adjacent to S&N yard
Title:  Shots around Montgomery Yard--gotta love a cool fire truck- MFD units sit in sun after a wash at the station adjacent to S&N yard
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:09 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Not a great shot for clarity, but a afternoon thunder-boomer shadowed the yard enough for all the signal lighting to show up. The north end R/C units works sand cars on the R/C lead while a Mobile-Montgomery train waits for its turn to move.
Title:  Not a great shot for clarity, but a afternoon thunder-boomer shadowed the yard enough for all the signal lighting to show up. The north end R/C units works sand cars on the R/C lead while a Mobile-Montgomery train waits for its turn to move.
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:15 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  122   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:25 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
Title:  Coal car on Mobile Coal Train taking export coal from the Blue Creek Coal seam near Brookwood, AL to the port
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Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:50:32 AM
Location:  Montgomery, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  137   Comments: 0

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