S Gaugian Magazine Back Issues
Good Evening List Members,
While going through back issues of the S Gaugian Magazine I was trying to determine when its first issue was published; finding out the magazine was in several formats from the 1960’s to its final issue. While looking at the cover of my oldest copy from May 1972 and reading the fine print on the that states:”A-fine publication for a fine gauge”. How appropriate in my mind. Don Heimburger and his pursuit of giving S gauge with a passion. With that thought in mind I am curious if any list members would be willing to offer copies of the older issues of the magazine. Please feel free to contact me off-list. Thank You in advance for your assistance.
John Keatig
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Bill,
Did you get an answer about the manufacture of the marker lights? ?I have a project that needs these as well if you don’t mind sharing information.?
Thanks, Stephen
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On Jun 30, 2024, at 7:37?AM, Bill Lane via groups.io <bill@...> wrote:
? Does anyone know who made these marker lights? 1 just went missing. Do you have any that I could buy? ? Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! ? See my layout progress at:
Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society
It's FREE to join!??
Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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Swap: W A Drake Drop Bottom Gondolas
I have UP, SP, and CPR factory-lettered but would prefer other road names, if anyone would like to swap.
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Re: Today’s S Scale project
Looks like you have a major monograph going here that will be more than worthy of publication in the S Scale Resource. ?The knowledge and know how is incredible!
Ben Trousdale?
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South Wind Pennsy N8 for salw
Hi All
I have a Southwind Pennsy N8 cabin car with Antenna for sale.
Looking for $260 usd shipped from the UK.
Please contact off list if interested.
Thanks?
Colin Stewart
Inverness
Scotland
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Re: Today’s S Scale project
Mike,
Thank you for this latest installment of the loco construction.
Mike (Ohio)
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 10:40?AM Mike Swederska via <MikeSscale= [email protected]> wrote: I have worked on the Mutt loco on and off since my last post. After the side rods are done and installed I started to break in this part of the assembly. As I installed each driver in the frame I made sure there was no sticking or binding. Once all of them were in and I was happy with the free rolling of the drivers with the frame plate tightened. I started installing the side rods one driver at a time making sure no binding was? occurring with each crank pin screw. Once all the crank pin screws were installed, I began my break in period.?
Back in the old days I would use toothpaste. Today I use a buffing compound used to remove 1200 grit scratches from Urethane clear coat. By coating the axles and crank pin sleeves with the micro compound and rolling it in my hands polishing all the moving surfaces to a slick finish. Now I do this for hours and hours. I use to run the mechanism on the bench over night in one direction then the other. But I have cooked motors doing that and have gotten away from that technique. Rolling it in my hands I can feel any minor or very slight bind and can address it at that time. As a Cardinal baseball fan I enjoy the game and roll the mechanism on my leg and in my hands the whole game. Passing it over to my wife for her to roll in between her hands and analyze the free flowing drivers. She can detect defects as I get use to feeling them.?
The polishing compound is water clean up. So a tear down of the mechanism is required and at that time since all the soldering is done to the frame and drivers they get painted. I have also competed the cylinders. I found a set of cylinders but they were one of my rejects due to a bad casting on one side of the cylinder. I cleaned up the defects the best I could with out misshaping the cylinder side. After that I made the inspection plate and soldered it on the sides of the cylinders and it hid a lot of the defects. After that I drilled and installed the drifting valves on the top of the cylinders. Then painted along with the drivers.?
While I was painting I went ahead and painted the loco pilot truck and tender trucks prior to their assembly.   
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Mike Swederska
Meramec Valley Lines
Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16
Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!
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Re: Today’s S Scale project
I have worked on the Mutt loco on and off since my last post. After the side rods are done and installed I started to break in this part of the assembly. As I installed each driver in the frame I made sure there was no sticking or binding. Once all of them were in and I was happy with the free rolling of the drivers with the frame plate tightened. I started installing the side rods one driver at a time making sure no binding was? occurring with each crank pin screw. Once all the crank pin screws were installed, I began my break in period.? Back in the old days I would use toothpaste. Today I use a buffing compound used to remove 1200 grit scratches from Urethane clear coat. By coating the axles and crank pin sleeves with the micro compound and rolling it in my hands polishing all the moving surfaces to a slick finish. Now I do this for hours and hours. I use to run the mechanism on the bench over night in one direction then the other. But I have cooked motors doing that and have gotten away from that technique. Rolling it in my hands I can feel any minor or very slight bind and can address it at that time. As a Cardinal baseball fan I enjoy the game and roll the mechanism on my leg and in my hands the whole game. Passing it over to my wife for her to roll in between her hands and analyze the free flowing drivers. She can detect defects as I get use to feeling them.? The polishing compound is water clean up. So a tear down of the mechanism is required and at that time since all the soldering is done to the frame and drivers they get painted. I have also competed the cylinders. I found a set of cylinders but they were one of my rejects due to a bad casting on one side of the cylinder. I cleaned up the defects the best I could with out misshaping the cylinder side. After that I made the inspection plate and soldered it on the sides of the cylinders and it hid a lot of the defects. After that I drilled and installed the drifting valves on the top of the cylinders. Then painted along with the drivers.? While I was painting I went ahead and painted the loco pilot truck and tender trucks prior to their assembly.     -- Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
That would have been, literally a stretch, as the paw bounty was across Minnesota from South Dakota.
A friend in high school, another model railroader, earned his hobby money trapping muskrats.
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If the bounty for gopher tails was in South Dakota and the bounty in Minnesota was for a foot--seems like an enterprising guy near the borders could claim dual citizenship for the little guys and be paid for the paw in Minn. then
the tails a mile down the road for a few more $ ?? Not to get too far into the woods, but my step-father rented out the family home to a guy one winter.? I needed to enter the barn for some tool so the renter opened the main door revealing a large pile of
frozen rabbits.? The bounty for all those rabbit furs would equal a caboose or two--so get to work Gale!
Bob Werre
PS
BTW One is a bay window; one is a slopped coupla. another's lettered for? the Texas & New Orleans with the UP CA1
The small town in southeastern Minnesota where I last served before retiring had an annual summer festival, the Viola Gopher Count, commemorating the practice of paying a bounty for each gopher paw (not the tails), going back to the nineteenth century.? They
were?
considered a pest to be eliminated.? ?The practice was still current, although likely few youngsters found it worth their while to collect paws.
Viola was on the Plainview Branch of the C&NW "Alco Line."
Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails apiece.. ??
Gale Hsll
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob Werre
<bob@...> wrote:
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Friends, blowing up things with firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20 Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they used to get their" 4th of July" spending money
by turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you will have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig out all those Gopher tails--the county guy would give out has much as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
If the bounty for gopher tails was in
South Dakota and the bounty in Minnesota was for a foot--seems
like an enterprising guy near the borders could claim dual
citizenship for the little guys and be paid for the paw in Minn.
then the tails a mile down the road for a few more $ ?? Not to get
too far into the woods, but my step-father rented out the family
home to a guy one winter.? I needed to enter the barn for some
tool so the renter opened the main door revealing a large pile of
frozen rabbits.? The bounty for all those rabbit furs would equal
a caboose or two--so get to work Gale!
Bob Werre
PS
BTW One is a bay window; one is a
slopped coupla. another's lettered for? the Texas & New
Orleans with the UP CA1
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The small town in southeastern Minnesota where I last served
before retiring had an annual summer festival, the Viola Gopher
Count, commemorating the practice of paying a bounty for each
gopher paw (not the tails), going back to the nineteenth
century.? They were?
considered a pest to be eliminated.? ?The practice was still
current, although likely few youngsters found it worth their
while to collect paws.
Viola was on the Plainview Branch of the C&NW "Alco Line."
Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails
apiece.. ??
Gale Hsll
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob
Werre <bob@...> wrote:
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Friends, blowing up things with
firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20
Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro
work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they
used to get their" 4th of July" spending money by
turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you
will have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from
Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed
finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig
out all those Gopher tails--the county guy would give
out has much as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different
flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
With a smile on my face, I contemplate the sheer irony of the "The Gopher State" paying for Gopher hides.? In other required news, I note Scenic Unlimited is having a July 4th sale and word is the owner has the business up for sale.? The Gopher comment is meant in good humor.? Michigan has it's Wolverines.? Anyone collect Wolverine hides to buy S scale brass?? In the Volunteer state I had a paper route in the summer.? There were several dogs I would have loved to shot to buy my Model Railroaders.
George Courtney
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
Well yes Gale!? On the other hand some
quality piece for the RR might be worth quite a lot.
Bob
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Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails
apiece.. ??
Gale Hsll
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob Werre
<bob@...> wrote:
?
Friends, blowing up things with
firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20
Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro
work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they used
to get their" 4th of July" spending money by turning in
Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you will
have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from
Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed finger
and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig out all
those Gopher tails--the county guy would give out has much
as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different
flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
Viola Gopher Count celebrated its 150th year as an event a week and half ago.
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Nick Kinnear
Plainview, MN
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
The small town in southeastern Minnesota where I last served before retiring had an annual summer festival, the Viola Gopher Count, commemorating the practice of paying a bounty for each gopher paw (not the tails), going back to the nineteenth century.? They
were?
considered a pest to be eliminated.? ?The practice was still current, although likely few youngsters found it worth their while to collect paws.
Viola was on the Plainview Branch of the C&NW "Alco Line."
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails apiece.. ??
Gale Hsll
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
?
Friends, blowing up things with firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20 Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they used to get their" 4th of July" spending money
by turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you will have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig out all those Gopher tails--the county guy would give out has much as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Re: Just in time--Independence celebration!
Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails apiece.. ??
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
?
Friends, blowing up things with firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20 Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they used to get their" 4th of July" spending money
by turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you will have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig out all those Gopher tails--the county guy would give out has much as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Just in time--Independence celebration!
Friends, blowing up things with firecrackers was
great fun, but I used to get only 20 Black-cats for 10 cents and
even with some clever pyro work they only lasted a few minutes!?
Mom said they used to get their" 4th of July" spending money by
turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you will have
the opportunity to add? wonderfully detailed brass
cabooses from Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed
finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig out all
those Gopher tails--the county guy would give out has much as a
nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
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Re: 1932 ARA boxcar update
I finally got this car assembled. Will paint when the humidity goes down. 
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Re: Fw: You Tube video of the Colorado and Western Railroad
Bob,
Yes I have seen it twice, but it's been a few years. He has a lot more standard gauge equipment now. The last time I was there he only?had the D&RGW L-131, which is huge in 1:22.5 scale. He said before he had the standard gauge, people visiting would say these trains were big and he had to say they're small, just built to a large scale. He also said there's 400 pounds of plaster hanging on his foyer walls.
Dave Heine
I usually don't mention other scales,but in this case it was
mention from Lindsey about our power grid and it's notable
failures--case in point!.? This series of u-Tube 's show one
noteable? very large-large scale layout with lots and lots of
scratch stuff!? Several in this group have talked about not really
building very much in our world of RTR.? Also the area given for
our layouts.? Well, all this flies in the face of of those
excuses!
I was able to cover Barry's first layout for MR many years ago in
a much smaller home with much smaller/lower ceilings--he mostly
used LGB the time--but like our Hi-rail efforts he
too grew with some effort & additional luck.? I know that Dave
Heine and several Narrow guys have seen the layout.
Bob Werre
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Guys:? ?Leighton Moreland was married
last month at the Rice Hotel in downtown Houston
recently. His friends from The Denver area came down
to be in the wedding. Mark Huber known as "Hyce" on
You Tube visited three layouts while in the Houston
area, mine being one of them. We just were so lucky
to have a storm come through the area while they
were here that knocked out the power. The guys
wanted to see my layout in the dark anyway, so I
gave a layout tour in the dark! I was embarrassed
that the trains did not run, but there was nothing I
could do about it! Mark and his friends decided to
come back after the power was restored and Blake and
I gave them a tour of the RR. I think he did a great
job of putting together a quick visit video of what
the railroad is all about. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks, Barry chief of everything BLW. It's all fun!
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Re: From NYCSHS Members Group; NYC Electrics
Cars can arrive on their own wheels or by truck. Our recent Q baggage, JGWhittier, and Palm Lane came in on their own wheels. Our RI auto car came in by truck.?
We have experience in moving. It can be done!
Thought I would cross post this from the NYC Historical Society 'io' group.? Certainly anyone involved with 12" to the foot gauge preservation can identify.? I know there are a few guys on the list that volunteer with the Illinois Railway Museum and may have been part of similar experiences. ---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Stan Madyda
Date: Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 1:26?PM
Subject: [NYCSHS-Members] Update on the NYC Electrics It has been a while since I posted what is happening with the electrics.?? In early November 2023, we loaded them onto the trailers for movement to Danbury.? From the time we needed to get a plan in place, we worked with Dagen Trucking of Castleton and Flach Rigging of Selkirk.? I can't say enough good things about the relationship we developed and the assistance they gave us.? Many times, we had deadlines from the Port of Albany that had to be met and everytime we came up to another deadline, there was a delay, not of our doing.? Through it all, Dagen and Flach would come out an access whatever had to be done.?? When we had to move the electrics out of the way for construction of a new road in December 2022, Flach and Dagen told us we would have to build up the area around where the electrics were place in order for them to get their equipment in.? This was going to add significant costs to the project, my team and I decided to wait to see what the Port's next move would be with the site.? Located close to the electrics there was an 11 foot high pile of stone, used to compress the ground where building were to go.? We figured at some point, that stone would have to be spread and we were right.? Around the electrics was a three and a half foot base, more than what Flach and Dagen required.? This first link is a video which shows the day everything got loaded onto the Dagen trailers.? The S Motor gave us some trouble since we did not remove all the connections holding the body to the chassis.? My Flach contact said there was no way to see them until they started lifting the body.? The T Motor was not a problem. ? Dagen had a fair amount of work to catch up on and said they could not deliver anything for several weeks.? This gave me a chance to figure out how to unload everything in Danbury.? Doing my due diligence, I contacted a few crane companies in the Danbury area for quotes.? My gut was telling me to use Flach, but having them come down from Selkirk would incur mobilization costs.? My Dagen contacts warned me that if they arrive in Danbury with the loads and everything was not set up properly, the costs would not be pretty.? I had a call with a crane consultant who advised that the extra costs to get Flach to come from Selkirk would be a good insurance policy.? I presented my findings to the board and they approved hiring Flach for the remainder of the project.? I was elated. Flach and Dagen came down before Christmas to map out a plan.? Delivery would be right after New Years. Because of a really tight curve entering the DRM yard, they would have to unload in the adjacent commuter parking lot using a gantry crane to transload onto a Self Propelled Modular Transport.? This could negotiate the curve and bring the pieces down to the unloading site.? The S Motor was left in two pieces so we could make repairs to the body and the frame.? The T Motor was reassembled .? Everything went according to plan.? Just one little hiccup occured when the two T Motor truck sections did not align so we could replace the pin.? We were able to figure out what to do in time for the body to be placed.? I later told my Flach contact what had happened and he said they could have helped us out.? Our videographer, Nick Ozorak, was on hand to document the delivery: Seeing the convoy arrive was for me a pinch me, this is actually happening moment.? I have yet to see any photos of the convoy.? The whole move was kept quiet as we did not want a lot of people getting in the way, especially near the areas where the public could have access.?? Yesterday we started work on the S Motor body taking off the flaking paint with wire brushes.? I would have like to started a little bit earlier, but a number of our volunteers were involved with needed trackwork.? The plan is to get the S Motor body ready for a protective paint job and then start on repairs.? We have to exercise the T Motor a bit and work on the journals and some of the articulation points.? We did have a minor derailment a week or so ago when we were moving her and we are thinking it is still a bit stiff from sitting up in Glenmont.? Three photos are attached.? We did get down to Alco/GE metal.? We also found that some of the rivets are copper and others were actually slotted bolts.?? Funding wise, we did exhaust the money raised and did have to dip into our reserves.? The board agreed to wipe the slate clean and start fresh for 2024.? We have received a $5,000 grant from the NRHS to kick things off.? We have some pledges for this year.? A friend of mine has given me a large collection of HO trains to try to sell with all proceeds going to the electrics.? I have about $1,000 to turn over.? Years ago, the Library/Archives which I also head up, decided to sell duplicate books on Amazon and we became a self funding entity within the museum.? Last year, I turned over $10,000 from accumulated funds to the electrics and this year the treasurer is looking at $15,000 which we have.? The board wonders why I have control over so much money.? Hey, you do the work, you raise money.? Contact me if there are any books you are looking for.? Quite a few from the Northeast and New York Central.?? Stan
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Fw: You Tube video of the Colorado and Western Railroad
I usually don't mention other scales,but in this case it was
mention from Lindsey about our power grid and it's notable
failures--case in point!.? This series of u-Tube 's show one
noteable? very large-large scale layout with lots and lots of
scratch stuff!? Several in this group have talked about not really
building very much in our world of RTR.? Also the area given for
our layouts.? Well, all this flies in the face of of those
excuses!
I was able to cover Barry's first layout for MR many years ago in
a much smaller home with much smaller/lower ceilings--he mostly
used LGB equipment.at the time--but like our Hi-rail efforts he
too grew with some effort & additional luck.? I know that Dave
Heine and several Narrow guys have seen the layout.
Bob Werre
-------- For
Guys:? ?Leighton Moreland was married
last month at the Rice Hotel in downtown Houston
recently. His friends from The Denver area came down
to be in the wedding. Mark Huber known as "Hyce" on
You Tube visited three layouts while in the Houston
area, mine being one of them. We just were so lucky
to have a storm come through the area while they
were here that knocked out the power. The guys
wanted to see my layout in the dark anyway, so I
gave a layout tour in the dark! I was embarrassed
that the trains did not run, but there was nothing I
could do about it! Mark and his friends decided to
come back after the power was restored and Blake and
I gave them a tour of the RR. I think he did a great
job of putting together a quick visit video of what
the railroad is all about. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks, Barry chief of everything BLW. It's all fun!
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My custom high hood GP35 is closer to becoming Norfolk & Western. A 8 hour soak in Scalecoat plastic thinner did a pretty good job. The brass fans are going in today. ? Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! ? See my layout progress at:
Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society
It's FREE to join!??
Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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