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Viewing Album:  Dad's photos-museums and tourist lines
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1969 - 3/1/2012
Album Info:Dad would occasionally take us to rail museums and the like-usually, but not always, at my instigation. These are some of the shots he took at such places.
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Interesting critter
Title:  Interesting critter
Description:  This Mack diesel was at Ringoes NJ on a trip my dad and my brother John took on the Black River & Western in October of 1973. I was not on this trip, cant think of why at the moment, since I would not miss such an excursion if I had a choice.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:28:09 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BRW 1(UNKNOWN)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Poking a nose out
Title:  Poking a nose out
Description:  US Sugar 148 was at the engine house, poking its nose out into the late day sun.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:37:34 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  FEC 148(4-6-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 2
Taking over
Title:  Taking over
Description:  BR&W 60 had yielded to the diesel, which we see here backing onto the train.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:38:28 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BRW 400(SW1)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  The train now has a diesel on, and is ready for its next run.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:39:52 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BRW 400(SW1)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
Backing down
Title:  Backing down
Description:  The draw at BR&W was 2-8-0 #60, steam power for the tourists. Here it is backing past the train as it goes to the house. SW 1 400 will take over.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:33:33 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BRW 60(2-8-0)
Views:  581   Comments: 0
Tucked away
Title:  Tucked away
Description:  Steamer #60 is tucked away in a siding as the train rolls out behind an SW 1.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:36:03 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BRW 60(2-8-0)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
All kinds of power
Title:  All kinds of power
Description:  Besides steam and an SW 1, this GE also got into the act, seen backing onto the train.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:41:44 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BRW 7079(65Tonner )
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Intresting equipment
Title:  Intresting equipment
Description:  The coach yard at Ringoes has some interesting passenger cars. Among other things, there were a number of DLW Boonton cars, which by then had been displaced from commuter service on the EL.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:46:31 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
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Views:  202   Comments: 0
Down by the station
Title:  Down by the station
Description:  The crowd of tourists waits for the train to arrive. Note the wig wag signal at the crossing.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:52:24 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
Dontcha hear that whistle blowing
Title:  Dontcha hear that whistle blowing
Description:  Dad caught a couple of young riders reacting to the whistle on the steam engine.
Photo Date:  10/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/6/2016 4:53:49 AM
Location:  Ringoes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Views:  159   Comments: 0
Essex St on the BMT
Title:  Essex St on the BMT
Description:  These were taken on what was most likely an ERA trip with the IRT Low V cars. The TA had a museum set that they would charter for various groups, running to different points on the system. Since the IRT cars were only 9 feet wide, they could go anywhere, and did. This is a shot of them at Essex St on the BMT M line. Thats my brother John on the platform, age 9 at the time.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/19/2016 4:56:47 AM
Location:  Manhattan, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Action
Locomotives:  NYCTA 5290(Electric M.U.)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Low Vs at Junction Blvd
Title:  Low Vs at Junction Blvd
Description:  Part of the days trip was on the Flushing Line, with a stop at Junction Blvd for photos.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/19/2016 5:06:23 AM
Location:  Corona, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYCTA 5483(Electric M.U.)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  This ERA trip originated at Times Square on the #7 Flushing Line with a set of Low V IRT cars.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/20/2016 3:59:31 AM
Location:  Manhattan, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
Queensboro Plaza
Title:  Queensboro Plaza
Description:  The ERA trip that originated at Times Square comes around the curve off 23rd St into Queensboro Plaza with its train of Low Vs.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/20/2016 4:23:27 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
Looking ahead
Title:  Looking ahead
Description:  The ERA Low V trip looking toward Main St at Junction Blvd.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/20/2016 4:29:18 AM
Location:  Corona, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  149   Comments: 0
Car full of foamers
Title:  Car full of foamers
Description:  The ERA trips brought out a wide variety of transit fans from all over. This was sort of a golden age for fantrips, as many railroads were running trips with steam or classic diesels, and even the NYCTA got in the act with a museum, and a couple of trains worth of classic equipment. Trips were usually sold out, or close, and everyone enjoyed the chance to ride cars that were often resurrected from the dead line. Dad caught the crowd on this Low V trip as we rolled along the Roosevelt Av elevated line. You can see from this photo how New York subway riders became known as "straphangers."
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/20/2016 4:35:44 AM
Location:  Corona, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
Not hard to tell a fan
Title:  Not hard to tell a fan
Description:  You just cant tell some of them very much. A fantrip always brings out the colors, as this participant shows with his display of a variety of railroad heralds, almost all of them now a memory.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/24/2016 3:45:32 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Transit,Passenger
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Views:  170   Comments: 1
Brothers in transit
Title:  Brothers in transit
Description:  My brother John, left, and me, riding an ERA Low V trip.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/23/2016 4:47:16 AM
Location:  New York, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  206   Comments: 0
Thatll do
Title:  Thatll do
Description:  During an August 1974 vacation, we stopped in Cooperstown, primarily to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. While there, we also saw some of the other local attractions, one of which was the Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley, then mostly a tourist line run by Walter Rich in his pre NYSW days. This was the line he acquired after NY DOT bought out his segment of the ex NYC Ulster & Delaware in Oneonta, which became part of I 88. CACV 2 is coupled up to the excursion at Milford, and will be heading back to Cooperstown shortly.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:28:31 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Ten more feet
Title:  Ten more feet
Description:  CACV 2 is almost back on its train at Milford, just a few more feet to a hitch.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:31:40 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
Backing down
Title:  Backing down
Description:  CACV 2 has run around the train at Milford, and is now backing to the two ex CNJ cars to return to Cooperstown. Note the footboard only on the fireman's side.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:35:28 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
Run around
Title:  Run around
Description:  CACV 2 runs around its train at Milford. The cars are ex CNJ.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:37:22 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Done for the day
Title:  Done for the day
Description:  CACV 2 has tied up at the former D&H station as a couple sitting on the adjacent track speeder take in the action.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/27/2016 3:18:46 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  391   Comments: 1
Switching too
Title:  Switching too
Description:  Anyone who rode an NYSW excursion in the 1980s was all too familiar with the trains doing some local work along the way. Walter Rich was not about to waste a good crew on a simple passenger train. It apparently was a practice he started early. CACV 2 has worked a siding during its run around move at Milford and is now taking water.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:40:37 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Taking on water
Title:  Taking on water
Description:  Looks like with a garden hose. In the mid 1970s, especially at outlying locations such as Milford, which never had water tanks to begin with, getting water in a tender was an interesting prospect. The tender of CACV 2 is being filled with a hose from a nearby business. It took a while.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:43:57 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Enjoying the ride
Title:  Enjoying the ride
Description:  The riders are having a good time on the trip, despite the long water stop. Thats me in the blue shirt with white stripes. My grandmother is to the left in the seat behind on the ex CNJ coach.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:47:52 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
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Views:  464   Comments: 0
Backing past
Title:  Backing past
Description:  CACV 2 passes its train as it changes ends for the trip back to Cooperstown. A pair of D&H RS 3's are in the distance. I don't know if dad got a shot of them. I kind of doubt it, but something may yet turn up.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:51:07 AM
Location:  Milford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
Posed
Title:  Posed
Description:  Not the engine, my brother John, who was getting a look at the ex Army 0-6-0 at Cooperstown. It is a good roster shot of the engine.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:53:14 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
Hanging out
Title:  Hanging out
Description:  My brother John swings up on the ex Swift Premium reefer stashed on the siding at Cooperstown. He was ten that year.
Photo Date:  8/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2016 3:54:52 AM
Location:  Cooperstown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CACV 2(0-6-0)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
Smithsonian models
Title:  Smithsonian models
Description:  These models of notable steam engines were in the railroad exhibit at the Smithsonian. Its a pretty comprehensive selection for a small sample of American steam power.
Photo Date:  8/22/1976  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 4:10:40 AM
Location:  Washington DC, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Model,Steam
Locomotives:  NYC 5205(4-6-4) ACL 1805(4-8-4) NKP 779(2-8-4) UP 4000(4-8-8-4) NW 244(0-8-0)
Views:  2290   Comments: 1
The real thing
Title:  The real thing
Description:  The Smithsonian moved this Pacific, a Southern PS class engine, inside for display. It was a little too big for the case.
Photo Date:  8/22/1976  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 4:18:27 AM
Location:  Washington DC, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SOU 1401(4-6-2)
Views:  750   Comments: 0
Interesting model
Title:  Interesting model
Description:  One of the more interesting models at the Smithsonian was this rail mounted artillery for the US Navy.
Photo Date:  8/22/1976  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 4:26:26 AM
Location:  Washington DC, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  68   Comments: 0
Inside a D
Title:  Inside a D
Description:  There were a variety of retired transit cars on display at the New York City Transit Museum in Brooklyn, including this BMT type D car. We see the interior.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:36:00 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYCTA 6112(Electric M.U.)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
The wheels that turn
Title:  The wheels that turn
Description:  The museum had lifted a truck from an R 1 onto the platform and labeled the parts to show what everything was. It was an interesting display, and was really helpful in understanding what went on under the floor, and how the cars ran.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:44:52 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Transit
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Views:  97   Comments: 1
R 1 interior
Title:  R 1 interior
Description:  There were several R 1/9 cars in the museum-in addition to the many still in service-though the museum cars were nicely restored. This is a shot of the interior, which is configured much like the BMT "D" cars. These had four doors on each side, as opposed to the Ds, which had three larger doors.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:47:29 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYCTA 100(Electric M.U.)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Low Vs
Title:  Low Vs
Description:  A pair of IRT Low V cars, so named because they ran on 570 volts DC, rather than on the 600 volts the other cars used, sit at the platform at the museum.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:52:02 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYCTA 5466(Electric M.U.)
Views:  114   Comments: 0
IRT interior
Title:  IRT interior
Description:  The interior of an IRT Low V car. Note the longitudinal seating of the IRT, vs the smaller, differently oriented seats on the IND and BMT cars.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:54:34 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYCTA 5466(Electric M.U.)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Steeple cab
Title:  Steeple cab
Description:  This steeple cab was at the museum. Not sure of the origin, since it does not look like a typical NYCTA unit. May have come from the South Brooklyn, which ran from Bay Ridge to Coney Island, and was owned by the city. It had regular freight customers, but was used to move transit cars on and off the system to the rest of the rail network.
Photo Date:  6/12/1977  Upload Date: 3/9/2016 4:58:55 AM
Location:  Brooklyn Heights, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Transit
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Views:  254   Comments: 0
President and friend
Title:  President and friend
Description:  The class unit of B&Os President series of engines is at the B&O Museum with another engine tied on behind.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 4:40:30 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  BO 5300(4-6-2) CO 377(4-6-0)
Views:  929   Comments: 0
Portrait of Washington
Title:  Portrait of Washington
Description:  No, not the Gilber Stuart painting youre familiar with. This is one of B&Os P class Pacifics at the B&O Museum.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 4:46:19 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  BO 5300(4-6-2)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
Tunnel train
Title:  Tunnel train
Description:  A work train with a special car to check clearances in the Baltimore tunnel-see the comment below-is at the museum, providing a glimpse into the often unseen but important world of MOW.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 4:50:08 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  315   Comments: 3
Shop door
Title:  Shop door
Description:  The entrance to the roundhouse at the museum
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 4:54:43 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
Tom Thumb
Title:  Tom Thumb
Description:  A replica of the famous Tom Thumb was on hand at the museum, pulling a single car with bench seats around the complex to give visitors an idea of early days on the railroad.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 5:01:15 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Passenger,Action
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
On board
Title:  On board
Description:  The view from on the train, looking at the Tom Thumb as it makes its way around the yard.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 5:17:41 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Passenger
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Views:  87   Comments: 0
Blow that whistle
Title:  Blow that whistle
Description:  The Tom Thumb blows steam as it sounds off. Mount Clare roundhouse is in the background.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 5:22:03 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Passenger
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
Small C&O power
Title:  Small C&O power
Description:  The big stuff gets the attention-the streamlined pacific, the 4-8-4s, some of the early diesels. Yet it is these smaller engines that are just as important in getting the work done, such as this 4-6-0.
Photo Date:  8/27/1977  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 5:26:47 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
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Views:  115   Comments: 1
Air pumps
Title:  Air pumps
Description:  Some steam engines had so much equipment that the air pumps were mounted in front of the smoke box, as we see here on C&O 1309. This engine is now the focus of a restoration effort.
Photo Date:  8/29/1977  Upload Date: 3/11/2016 4:13:13 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1309(2-6-6-2)
Views:  1169   Comments: 0
Rear view
Title:  Rear view
Description:  The view from the tender end of C&O 1309.
Photo Date:  8/29/1977  Upload Date: 3/11/2016 4:19:48 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1309(2-6-6-2)
Views:  734   Comments: 0
Streamliner
Title:  Streamliner
Description:  C&O shrouded several of these Hudsons following the War for crack passenger trains. John inspects the running gear. By this time, I was out of high school and had joined the ranks of the employed, and missed this trip.
Photo Date:  8/29/1977  Upload Date: 3/11/2016 4:03:45 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 490(4-6-4)
Views:  559   Comments: 0
Beauty and the beast
Title:  Beauty and the beast
Description:  The shrouded Hudson lays back while the 611-not THAT 611, but this one is just as interesting-takes center stage while John takes a rest.
Photo Date:  8/29/1977  Upload Date: 3/11/2016 4:08:10 AM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 611(4-8-4) CO 490(4-6-4)
Views:  1511   Comments: 0

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