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| Title: |
Rock Island swing bridge |
| Description: |
The bridge has now been dormant for about 5 years, and will last a few more years as a toll bridge before mostly being removed in the mid 2000s sometime |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1985 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 9:34:57 PM |
| Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
Rock Island going back to nature. |
| Description: |
Hard to believe that this picture is only separated by six years from my previous shots from 1980. The bridge is still being used for car traffic, but the rails have been severed on the west. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1985 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 8:50:22 PM |
| Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Bridge |
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200 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Uncertain future |
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This was a shot I took in the spring of 1986 looking west from the Soo Line high bridge after the railroad shut the line down and the rust was starting to slowly overtake the rail. This line would be out of service for about 1.5 years before the Wisconsin Central began to own/operate it in the fall of 1987. |
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5/1/1986 Upload Date: 7/19/2016 2:29:43 AM |
| Location: |
Arcola, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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| Title: |
Heavy unneeded steel |
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This is a follow up shot to the other shot at the high bridge, and I remember feeling quite, profoundly sad that this might be the end of this magnificent bridge as a rail route. There were 4 routes from the Twin Cities to Chicago, and did we really need them? Luckily, we did. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1986 Upload Date: 7/19/2016 2:34:21 AM |
| Location: |
Arcola, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Soo Line St. Croix River crossing |
| Description: |
The Soo Line had 3 river xings in about 50 miles and this was the northern most in Danbury Wi and the only one that is abandoned. This is looking north from Wisconsin into Minnesota on the Danbury Sub just a year or so before the tracks were removed to Superior. This is now about a 100 mile recreational trail. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1986 Upload Date: 7/27/2016 1:16:39 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Bridge |
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| Title: |
Soo/CNW crossing |
| Description: |
This is looking SW on the CNWs line from Altoona to Superior with the Soo Lines own Chicago to Duluth line crossing overhead. This crossing does not exist anymore, as the Soo/CNW were combined in the mid to late 90s into one route with the Soo to the south and the CNW to the north. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1986 Upload Date: 7/18/2016 2:08:46 AM |
| Location: |
Gordon, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Bridge |
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105 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak 8 heading south |
| Description: |
I am noticing as I down load slides/negatives, that my sunny day shots in MN/WI are few and far between, so here is one at east Newport of Amtrak 8 heading east. The RI bridge in the last photos is just to my left about a quarter mile. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1986 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 8:59:12 PM |
| Location: |
Newport, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
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AMTK 361(F40PHR) |
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259 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Empire Builder #8 |
| Description: |
A second shot of the train passing me at 79 mph on a beautiful day in MN. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1986 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 9:00:52 PM |
| Location: |
Newport, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
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AMTK 361(F40PHR) |
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315 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BN Prescott lift bridge from above |
| Description: |
My sister and I took a Cessna from a regional airport and photographed the BNs new bridge at the confluence of the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers. This bridge was about 2.5 years old at this time |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1986 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 2:43:48 AM |
| Location: |
Prescott, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic,Bridge |
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| Title: |
Minnetonka Zephyr |
| Description: |
In the mid 1980s, Dakota Rail operated a dinner train in the Lester Prairie area that ran along this old BN branchline at very, low speeds. The track was feeble and the train lasted a couple years before moving to Stillwater MN as the Minnesota Zephyr in July 1987. Here the train is heading east on 66 lb rail. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/1986 Upload Date: 7/15/2016 12:45:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Germany, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Passenger,Action |
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133 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Soo Line strike training train |
| Description: |
In the early spring of 1987, the Soo Line sent a train from Withrow, MN to Somerset, to train management in case of a strike anticipated that year. This was one eastbound move east of Withrow, MN |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1987 Upload Date: 7/11/2016 12:26:30 AM |
| Location: |
Withrow, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
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SOO 4508(GP38-2) |
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365 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hutchinson Depot |
| Description: |
This is the depot on the Dakota Rail line in spring 1987. This was the end of the track for this old GN/BN line and the line has since been abandoned. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1987 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 10:36:11 AM |
| Location: |
Hutchinson, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Awaiting the scrappers |
| Description: |
Here is on the opposite end of town looking south, and you can see remnants of the old siding on the right that had been abandoned some years earlier. This section of tracV was 50 mph up to the end. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1987 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 2:04:45 AM |
| Location: |
Forest Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Awaiting the scrappers |
| Description: |
Looking north in downtown in early spring 1987, the once busy Skally line of the BN is now silent, its ABS and 115 lb jointed rail awaiting removal and several more communities will be left without rail service. I have always thought BN made a mistake removing this line. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1987 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:54:08 AM |
| Location: |
Forest Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
End of the line |
| Description: |
This is looking west on the former BN/NP Skally line in East St. Paul, MN shortly before the scrappers came through and removed it. The CNW 400 route is on the left, and in about 1/2 mile the Skally would go through Swede Hollow on a steep and curvy grade to Division Street. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1987 Upload Date: 7/26/2016 10:24:59 AM |
| Location: |
St. Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Along the Mississippi River |
| Description: |
A westbound freight is cruising through downtown Alma on the way to Minneapolis and points west. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1987 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 11:50:25 AM |
| Location: |
Alma, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
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BNSF 7866(SD40-2) |
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180 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Along the Mississippi River |
| Description: |
After passing under the pedestrian bridge, this train will hug the river bank to Prescott, WI where it will then enter Minnesota for the last stretch to the Twin Cities. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1987 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 11:52:25 AM |
| Location: |
Alma, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic,Station,Action |
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| Title: |
Minnesota Zephyr |
| Description: |
The Zephyr heads west on its first run with dignitaries aboard and would run for 21 years on this line and carry over a million people. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1987 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 2:45:39 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
Conductor at work |
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This is a shot of a conductor on the MN Transportation Museum line at Stillwater on the now abandoned ex-BN line that the museum and MN Zephyr ran on for 23 years. The conductor is going to get the switch so the train can back in the clear for the Minnesota Zephyr to pass. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1987 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 2:42:30 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
BN Transfer One |
| Description: |
This is the westbound train coming through Oakdale, MN on the CNW heading back to Northtown yard. This train served the Andersen Window Corporation for many years, usually running 4 to 5 days a week, until alot of this business was converted to trucks via intermodal. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1988 Upload Date: 7/11/2016 12:58:13 AM |
| Location: |
Oakdale, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
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BN 1414(GP10) |
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314 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The end of the Skally |
| Description: |
This picture is at the xing of the Soo Line and NP in Ma|lewood, MN as the scrappers have come in from the north and removed the mainline to White Bear Lake. This is now part of the MSP area bike trail system, and is used quite heavily. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1988 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:16:25 AM |
| Location: |
Maplewood, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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| Title: |
Algoma Central |
| Description: |
My first encounter with the Algoma Central Canyon passenger train coming south near Searchmont. I rode this train several times and always enjoyed it, and it often ran with 12-16 passenger cars. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 2:24:54 AM |
| Location: |
Searchmont, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic,Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
Algoma Central southbound |
| Description: |
This train was the Agawa Canyon run that had about 12-15 cars on it, as I recall and is about 30 mn from reaching its destination in St. Ste. Marie. This was a neat power car they had on the train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 2:48:13 AM |
| Location: |
Heyden, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
New railroad in Wisconsin! |
| Description: |
This was the new alignment from the old GN to the Soo Line near Dedham, WI in 1988 as the BN was preparing to shift from their trouble prone bridge to the Soo Lines more stable alignment. Ironically, the Soo Line had just pulled up the tracks on this line from Dresser WI withkn a little over a year before. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:48:25 AM |
| Location: |
Dedham, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
My kind of house! |
| Description: |
This is how Canada does it right! MOW has small houses and garages for the speeders to be kept out of the elements. This is harsh climate in the winter, and I am guessing that working track here is not for the faint of heart! |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 11:55:03 AM |
| Location: |
Oba, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Steam generator car |
| Description: |
I thought these were clever modifications to help keep the steam heated cars running in this climate. I believe the trains are all electric powered now. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 11:57:01 AM |
| Location: |
Hearst, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Roster |
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| Title: |
Along the Algoma Central |
| Description: |
The first time I rode this line in about 1987 to Agawa Canyon, I was so impressed I decided to ride it all the way to Hearst. It has some of the most pristine, scenery I have seen, and south of Agawa Canyon you feel like you are in the Rocky Mountains! |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 12:01:32 PM |
| Location: |
Franz, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic,Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
Curves for days! |
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The Algoma Central is probably one of the curviest lines in Canada, as it negotiates many lakes and the geological remains of large rocks/mountains on the east end of Lake Superior. You wouldnt expect it in what many would think would be flat prairie land. Amazingly beautiful area. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 12:04:49 PM |
| Location: |
Franz, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic,Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
Agawa Canyon station |
| Description: |
This is the stop that the tourist train from St. Ste. Marie makes about 110 miles north. This train can be up 15-20 cars long and usually runs daily in the summer. The Hearst train at this time would vary from 5 days a week in the summer to 3 or 4 days a week in the winter. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2016 12:07:15 PM |
| Location: |
Agawa Canyon, ON |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Scenic |
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| Title: |
Wanderoos |
| Description: |
And for all those wondering what a place with this strange of name looks like? This is about it. |
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8/1/1990 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:09:25 AM |
| Location: |
Wanderoos, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Station,Passenger,Action |
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| Title: |
A view off the rear of the train |
| Description: |
This is another ROW shot of the WC/Soo Line near Wanderoos WI and has since been abandoned. We are headimg eastbound on a WC passenger special in 1990, and will be arriving in Dresser WI shortly. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1990 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:07:14 AM |
| Location: |
Wanderoos, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
Looking east on the Soo Line |
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This was near the time that the Soo Line had a prolonged strike and the main line out here was very, quiet for over a month. I always liked the solitude out in North Dakota, and the wide open views. |
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7/15/1994 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 11:41:49 AM |
| Location: |
Kensal, ND |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Track |
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| Title: |
BN 1 |
| Description: |
A close up view of this handsome unit, and this would end up being one of its very, last runs for BN before being donated to the Illinois Railway Museum. |
| Photo Date: |
1/2/1997 Upload Date: 7/26/2016 10:22:03 AM |
| Location: |
ST. CLOUD, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter |
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BN 1(F9A) |
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| Title: |
BN 1 and 2 |
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This is a picture of the United Way/Holiday train that I rode with my friend Rod Kriesel, who was the engineer on the train from St. Cloud to Staples MN. We are getting ready to back the train out of St. Cloud yard and head west on the main line on a cold January late afternoon. |
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1/2/1997 Upload Date: 7/26/2016 10:20:12 AM |
| Location: |
ST. CLOUD, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 1(F9A) BN 2(F9B) |
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542 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road 261 northbound to Sioux Falls. |
| Description: |
A shot as the train approaches on a photo run-by near the Airport siding on the BNSF Marshall Subdivision |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1998 Upload Date: 7/25/2016 2:19:39 AM |
| Location: |
Sioux Center, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Steam,Passenger,Action |
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MILW 261(4-8-4) |
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226 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road 261 northbound to Sioux Falls. |
| Description: |
BNSF Employee Special in the summer of 1998 returning to Minneapolis. This was a photo run-by that the group did north of the Airport siding on the Marshall Sub. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1998 Upload Date: 7/25/2016 2:13:55 AM |
| Location: |
Sioux Center, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Steam,Passenger,Action |
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MILW 261(4-8-4) |
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132 Comments: 0 |
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