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BB 6 |
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12.26.21 Charlottesville. BB 6, GP 40. BD 11/68, BN 34658. Built as PC 3217. |
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12/26/2021 Upload Date: 1/27/2022 7:12:26 PM |
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Charlottesville, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 6(GP40) |
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BB 17 |
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BB 17 at the Charlottesville terminal. The former C&O passenger station stands in the background. |
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1/21/2022 Upload Date: 1/25/2022 11:05:46 AM |
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Charlottesville, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 17(GP38-2) |
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BB 15 |
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Buckingham Branch 15 in tow behind BB 17 as ithey pass through Mehums River about to cross the high bridge over the river. |
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6/10/2022 Upload Date: 6/10/2022 2:58:41 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 15(GP38-2) |
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BB 17 |
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Buckingham Branch 17, long hood forward, rounding the curve eastbound at Mechums River with BB 15 in tow about to hit the high bridge above the river. |
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6/10/2022 Upload Date: 6/10/2022 2:54:00 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 17(GP38-2) |
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BB 17 on the BLue Ridge Flyer |
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8.12.2022 Mechums River, VA. BB #17 GP38-2 BD 10/73, BN 72745-32. Built as SR 5090. #17 is leading the recently inaugurated dinner train Blue Ridge Flyer. Here, 17 is heading westward returning to Staunton after a run-a-round move at Ivy (Westvaco). I even got a hearty wave from the friendly engineer whom I had met the previous week when I rode on the inaugural run. |
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8/12/2022 Upload Date: 8/13/2022 2:20:21 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 17(GP38-2) |
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BB 17 leads the eastbound Blue Ridge Flyer |
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8.12.2022 Mechums River, VA. BB #17 GP38-2 BD 10/73, BN 72745-32. Built as SR 5090. #17 is rounding the curve at milepost 192 as it leads the recently inaugurated dinner train Blue Ridge Flyer. Here, 17 is heading east with dining car "Arvonia" toward Ivy, VA where it will perform a run-a-round move then head back to Staunton. |
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8/12/2022 Upload Date: 8/13/2022 2:30:43 PM |
| Location: |
Mechums River, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 17(GP38-2) |
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| Title: |
BB Arvonia |
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8.12.2022 Mechums River, VA. Buckingham Branchs "Arvoina" tacked on behind BB locomotive#17 forming the railroads recently inaugurated Virginia Scenic Railway tours over the former C&O Mountain Subdivision. Originating in Staunton, VA, the Alleghany Special leaves at 10:30 AM Thursdays thru Sundays and heads west to Goshen for a 3 hour ride. Patrons enjoy a lunch while viewing the Shenandoah Valley countryside before returning to Staunton. Then, at 3:30, the same consist becomes the Blue Ridge Flyer, departing eastward heading for a roundtrip to Ivy, VA. Dinner is served before the train travels through the famous Blue Ridge Tunnel as it makes its way down Afton Mnt. before returning back to Staunton. Here the Blue Ridge Flyer is returning westbound to Staunton. |
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8/12/2022 Upload Date: 8/13/2022 2:02:14 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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| Title: |
BB Track machine |
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On the siding at Mechum's River, VA. |
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11/25/2022 Upload Date: 11/25/2022 4:02:20 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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| Title: |
BB Track machine |
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On the siding at Mechum's River, VA. |
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11/25/2022 Upload Date: 11/25/2022 4:05:30 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 14 |
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12.6.2022 Mechum's River Buckingham Branch #14 on a damp, morning westbound run having just crossed the Mechum's River bridge with several coal and grain cars for online customers. |
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12/6/2022 Upload Date: 12/6/2022 9:45:30 AM |
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Mechums River, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 14(GP38-2) |
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BB 7 |
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1.10.2023. Ivy, VA. Buckingham Branch's GP40 #7 with a short train passes through Ivy at milepost 189 on the old C&O mainline heading up to customers in the Shenandoah Valley. |
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1/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/10/2023 10:25:41 AM |
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Ivy, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 7(GP40) |
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BB 16 |
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3.1.2023 Goshen, VA BB 16 GP38-2 leading the morning train - The Alleghany Special - preparing to recouple to what was the rear of the train and return to Staunton. |
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3/11/2023 Upload Date: 4/22/2023 8:56:27 AM |
| Location: |
Goshen, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 6 |
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5.23.2023 Charlottesville, VA. BB #6, at the Farmington CC crossing with the morning deliveries to Ryzing Technologies and other customers in Staunton, VA. |
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5/23/2023 Upload Date: 5/23/2023 11:18:23 AM |
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Farmington, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 6(GP40) |
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BB 3300 |
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10.18.2023 BB passenger car 3300 in the Dillwyn Maintenance Yard. |
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10/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/20/2023 10:29:25 AM |
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Dillwyn, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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Former MRLX 1716 |
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10.18.2023 Dillwyn, VA. MLRX (Mid American Rail Car Leasing) former Amtrak baggage car #1716, built by Budd in 1953 as ATSF passenger car 2857, converted to a baggage car 1716 in Aug. '96. Now on the property of Buckingham Branch RR still as MRLX 1716. What will it become?. |
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10/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/20/2023 10:14:57 AM |
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Dillwyn, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 15 |
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2.7.2024 Charlottesville, VA. BB 15 leading the Gordonsville local back the Charlottesville for the day. Milepost signal 180 is .4 miles west of the west end of the the Wilson Creek Bridge designated was the beginning of the Yard Limit for Charlottesville and where the former C&O Washington Subdivision becomes the Mountain Subdivision. |
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2/7/2024 Upload Date: 2/7/2024 4:28:04 PM |
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Charlottesville, VA |
| Author: |
Lee Herbert |
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BB 15(GP38-2) |
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The evening dinner train passes by the Crozet Depot |
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2.25.2024. Crzet, VA. The evening Virginia Scenic RY dinner train known as the Blue Ridge Flyer, passes by the former C&O depot at Crozet. The BB #16 engine will perform a run-around move few hundred yards down the main for the train's return to Staunton. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 4:22:26 PM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 running the late dinner train down the Blue Ridge Grade |
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2.25.2024. Greenwood, VA. In the fading afternoon light, we find Buckingham Branch #16 on the point of this evening's Blue Ridge Flyer dinner train. Because the train had dealt with several waits for passing Amtrak and CSX trains, it was running late. Due to the lateness, the BB dispatcher instructed the 16 to make their return run-around at Crozet instead of Ivy, shaving about 30 minutes off of the return trip. The engineer jokingly responded that he was now to be known as the "Crozet Turn." |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 4:05:04 PM |
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Greenwood, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 making its runn-around move |
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2.25.2024. Crozet, VA. BB 16 is making its reverse move down the main with a high green signal, It had just uncoupled from Virginia Scenic Railway's evening Blue Ridge Flyer dinner train. The 16 will travel to just outside this picture frame, throw the switch, then come up the passing siding in its run-around move. It will switch back to the main line, recouple to the train, then return the train to Staunton. This move usually takes place at the next passing track further down in Ivy, but due to the day's delays, the train was running very late. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/26/2024 4:36:22 PM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 doing its run-around move |
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2.25.2024. Crozet, VA. BB 16, now in the late day shadows, is making its reverse move down the main with a high green signal, It had just uncoupled from Virginia Scenic Railway's evening Blue Ridge Flyer dinner train. The 16 will travel to beneath the utility bridge, throw the switch, then come up the passing siding in its run-around move. It will switch back to the main line, recouple to the train, then return the train to Staunton. This move usually takes place at the next passing track further down in Ivy, but due to the day's delays, the train was running very late. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/27/2024 9:10:15 AM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 heads up the passing track |
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2.25.2024 Crozet, VA. Now that BB 16 has been switched to the passing track, it makes its way forward to complete the run-around move at the opposite end of the passing track. There it will be switched to the main, coupled to the waiting dining cars, then proceed back to Staunton. Notice the signal aspect has changed to yellow indicating traffic (the waiting dining cars) occupies the main in this signal block. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/27/2024 9:22:01 AM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 rides off into the sunset |
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2.25.2024. Crozet, VA. BB 16, as if riding off into the sunset, heads to the opposite end of the passing track to make its final move before retiring the dinner train to Staunton. |
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2/25/2024 Upload Date: 2/27/2024 9:32:58 AM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB #16 with Dinner Train |
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3.29.2024 Afton, Va. BB 16 on the point of the eastbound evening "dinner train." As it passes a CSX westbound empty coal train. It will travel down the mountain to Ivy where the engine will do a run-around move, then return the consist back to Staunton. All the while, patrons are eating dinner and enjoying the views of the valley below from the Blue Ridge Escarpment. |
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3/29/2024 Upload Date: 3/31/2024 9:27:32 AM |
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Afton, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 12 |
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4.26.2024 Mechums River, VA. BB 12 at the 192 milepost running west with 2 loads and an empty tank car that originated in Staunton. |
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4/26/2024 Upload Date: 4/27/2024 10:59:40 AM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 12(GP40-3) |
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BB 16 on the dinner train |
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8/11/2024 Crozet, VA. BB 16 leading eastbound the evening dinner train past the former C&O depot in Crozet. It will travel a few miles further to the next passing siding in Ivy. There it will make a run-around move to return the consist to Staunton. |
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8/11/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 1:48:41 PM |
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Crozet, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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BB 16 on the dinner train |
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8.11.2024 Mechum's River. Buckingham Branch #16 on the lead of the afternoon dinner train that is on its return trip to Staunton. It's running about 30 minutes late due to CSX's westbound empty coal car traffic. Behind the locomotive on a short flatcar rests the generator to power the attached kitchen car. These 2 cars plus an additional dining car are new this year. Last year passengers received boxed meals. Now the meals are cooked fresh in-route. This is BB's second year of departing Staunton, VA with an eastbound dinner train, and its complementary noontime westbound lunch train. |
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8/11/2024 Upload Date: 8/12/2024 1:39:40 PM |
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Mechums River, VA |
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Lee Herbert |
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BB 16(GP38-2) |
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