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Pictures of WAMX 3947
 
Owner: Webb Asset Management
Model:EMD GP39-2Built As:DH 7614 (GP39-2)
Serial Number:756126-14Order No:756126
Frame Number:756126-14Built:3/1976
Notes:nee DH 7614, BM 354, UP 2733, UP 1233, WAMX 3947
Other locos with this serial:  BM 354(GP39-2) UP 1233(GP39-2) DH 7614(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WSOR 3947(GP39-2)
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WSOR 3801 and WAMX 3947 in the industrial park
Title:  WSOR 3801 and WAMX 3947 in the industrial park
Description:  I waited over half an hour for them to move. They didn't.
Photo Date:  7/6/2014  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 2:22:20 PM
Location:  Boscobel, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  630   Comments: 1
Switching on the bay
Title:  Switching on the bay
Description:  L469 backs its boxcar from Capital News on the old Central Soya spur down onto the rest of its train.
Photo Date:  10/6/2014  Upload Date: 10/6/2014 10:39:53 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  513   Comments: 0
On the move back to Johnson Street yard
Title:  On the move back to Johnson Street yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/6/2014  Upload Date: 10/6/2014 10:41:23 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
WAMX 3947 leads L469 at Livingston Street with a train off the Madison Sub
Title:  WAMX 3947 leads L469 at Livingston Street with a train off the Madison Sub
Description:  The balance of this train is the sand and gravel loads they will later take to the new Lycon ready-mix plant in Oregon.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/22/2014 9:13:44 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  499   Comments: 0
Destination in sight
Title:  Destination in sight
Description:  The spur with the switch just beyond the crossing leads to the new ready mix plant, where the loads will be set out.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 1:32:45 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
Twenty-one loads of aggregate for the new Lycon ready mix plant
Title:  Twenty-one loads of aggregate for the new Lycon ready mix plant
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 1:36:18 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
Spotting the loads
Title:  Spotting the loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 1:43:31 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
Lining the switch back for the main
Title:  Lining the switch back for the main
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 1:48:01 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  667   Comments: 0
Light power starting the journey back north to Madison
Title:  Light power starting the journey back north to Madison
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 1:50:13 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  510   Comments: 0
WAMX 3947 and 3928 getting ready to leave town with empties from Lycon
Title:  WAMX 3947 and 3928 getting ready to leave town with empties from Lycon
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:01:20 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
About to start rollling north from Braun Road
Title:  About to start rollling north from Braun Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:10:39 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Distant Glimmer
Title:  Distant Glimmer
Description:  ...of WAMX 3947's lights to the south of Irish Lane. Three years ago these rails were rust-coated and weed-choked.
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:12:24 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  210   Comments: 1
WAMX 3947 bleeding its former identity as UP 1233
Title:  WAMX 3947 bleeding its former identity as UP 1233
Description:  The patch over the UP shield on the nose has recently been replaced, but now the long hood and cab side patches are peeling off!
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:13:50 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Rounding the bend at Syene "Station"
Title:  Rounding the bend at Syene "Station"
Description:  The BP gas station and convenience store between Lacy Road and Cheryl Parkway calls itself "The Station."
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:15:38 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
WAMX 3947 and 3928
Title:  WAMX 3947 and 3928
Description:  These locomotives were sequentially numbered on both the UP and D&H. 3947 was DH 7614 and UP 1233, and 3928 was 7615 and 1234.
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:18:47 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
Cresting the Olin Avenue hump
Title:  Cresting the Olin Avenue hump
Description:  Just south of the crossing, the former Ridge Runner line to southwest Wisconsin splits off, now just a short spur to a couple industries on the south side of town.
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:22:03 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
Down Low at Lakeside Street
Title:  Down Low at Lakeside Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:24:55 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  207   Comments: 1
Setting out the cars on the bay...not wasting time!
Title:  Setting out the cars on the bay...not wasting time!
Description:  The power will run light out the ex-MILW Madison Sub to pick up more cars from the McFarland industrial park.
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:27:19 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
Pulling ahead after cutting off the loads
Title:  Pulling ahead after cutting off the loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/22/2016  Upload Date: 5/24/2016 1:44:53 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Dusty Road
Title:  Dusty Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/22/2016  Upload Date: 5/24/2016 2:21:15 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  296   Comments: 1
Running around the MTs
Title:  Running around the MTs
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/22/2016  Upload Date: 5/24/2016 2:23:39 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
Rouding the Lacy Road curve NB back to Madison with the MTs
Title:  Rouding the Lacy Road curve NB back to Madison with the MTs
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/22/2016  Upload Date: 5/24/2016 2:25:28 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
Sunny Side Up
Title:  Sunny Side Up
Description:  Working hard with a string of aggregate loads for the Lycon plant in Oregon.
Photo Date:  7/19/2016  Upload Date: 7/20/2016 2:41:55 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Just three engines in the Madison yard this pleasant fall afternoon
Title:  Just three engines in the Madison yard this pleasant fall afternoon
Description:  The 3947 has finally received its red and gray after several years roaming the WSOR system in shabby ex-UP yellow. Watco's take on the scheme does away with the thin chevron stripes, and moves the single fat gray chevron from the long hood to the short hood. 4174 was the WSOR 4005.
Photo Date:  10/17/2017  Upload Date: 10/17/2017 10:13:00 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WAMX 4174(SD40-2) WAMX 4177(SD40-2)
Views:  657   Comments: 1
L464 crew has combined the SD40-2s and goes to work assembling their train
Title:  L464 crew has combined the SD40-2s and goes to work assembling their train
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/17/2017  Upload Date: 10/17/2017 10:14:10 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
L863 power heads to the tie-up track while another power set idles
Title:  L863 power heads to the tie-up track while another power set idles
Description:  The L863 off the Reedsburg Sub snuck up on me, so only managed handheld video as it crossed Commercial Avenue. 4173 was the WSOR 4004. Behind 3928 is 4185 (formerly WSOR 4051), which has a bit of a smoking problem.
Photo Date:  3/9/2018  Upload Date: 3/11/2018 3:33:29 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 4185(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
WAMX 3947 whiles away another gorgeous afternoon on one of the tie-up tracks
Title:  WAMX 3947 whiles away another gorgeous afternoon on one of the tie-up tracks
Description:  This unit, despite being based out of Madison much of the time, continues to elude me as a lead unit post-repaint. While it was romaing the rails in ugly patched UP yellow it was leading every other train I saw!
Photo Date:  5/17/2018  Upload Date: 5/17/2018 10:42:50 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
T007 goes to work with WAMX 4171
Title:  T007 goes to work with WAMX 4171
Description:  The SD45 carbody unit 4223 is also coupled to it, both long-hood-forward. 6334 will later become power for L468.
Photo Date:  5/23/2018  Upload Date: 5/23/2018 11:17:41 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4171(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2) HLCX 6334(SD40-2)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
WAMX 3947 crosses 2nd St. with a hefty L464
Title:  WAMX 3947 crosses 2nd St. with a hefty L464
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 5:55:01 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  203   Comments: 1
WAMX 3947 ambles through the East Side neighborhoods on a pleasant late spring evening
Title:  WAMX 3947 ambles through the East Side neighborhoods on a pleasant late spring evening
Description:  They will hang a left at Junction A, and the chase continues in the album "WSOR Waterloo Subdivision."
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:14:11 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  211   Comments: 1
Horn blaring, WAMX 3947 bears down on the closely spaced crossings of Burke Road and Felland Road
Title:  Horn blaring, WAMX 3947 bears down on the closely spaced crossings of Burke Road and Felland Road
Description:  Some track work (after years of this being one of the ricketiest lines on the system) has upped the speed to 20 MPH from I-90 to Sun Prairie.
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:22:31 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  389   Comments: 1
Glinty Red
Title:  Glinty Red
Description:  3947 was finally repainted to Watco's new version of the WSOR scheme last year.
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:23:08 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  548   Comments: 2
L464 roars toward Bird Street
Title:  L464 roars toward Bird Street
Description:  This is the first time I have caught these units paired together since 3947 finally received its red and gray. 3928 got the 35th Anniversary dip in 2015. Previously they were in ugly patched UP yellow.
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:29:16 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  435   Comments: 1
WAMX 3947 and 3928 about to cross Bird St. with L464
Title:  WAMX 3947 and 3928 about to cross Bird St. with L464
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:30:11 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  418   Comments: 1
L464 drops their Lycon/Lafarge cars in the passing siding
Title:  L464 drops their Lycon/Lafarge cars in the passing siding
Description:  They'll work the big ready mix complex on the east side of Madison on their way back.
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:33:11 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Distant L464 spots loads for Amerhart Lumber
Title:  Distant L464 spots loads for Amerhart Lumber
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:54:23 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Its work in town complete, L464 blasts off for points east
Title:  Its work in town complete, L464 blasts off for points east
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2018  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 7:08:24 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  361   Comments: 1
An inbound Waterloo branch train parked at Twin Lane Road
Title:  An inbound Waterloo branch train parked at Twin Lane Road
Description:  The train was left here after a catastrophic gas explosion in downtown Sun Prairie the previous evening.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:00:32 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  246   Comments: 2
WAMX 3947 In Your Face
Title:  WAMX 3947 In Your Face
Description:  Normally this perspective is frowned upon, but the train is parked with no crew and the engines shut down. 3947 was the first addition that Watco made to the locomotive fleet on the WSOR system back in spring of 2014. It was soon joined by 3928 (As built, those two were sequentially numbered on the D&H and again on the UP), which received a WSOR 35th Anniversary scheme in the early summer of 2015 (the last with the thin chevron stripes on the short hood). 3947 remained in hideous patched UP yellow until the spring of 2017.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:01:25 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  296   Comments: 1
Blastoff!
Title:  Blastoff!
Description:  The L468 crew starts the pull west toward Madison (normally the train that works this branch is the L464). This train was held due to the emergency response to a catastrophic gas main explosion in downtown Sun Prairie the previous evening.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:01:50 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  237   Comments: 1
Wider view of this attractive EMD duo kicking up dust as it crosses Twin Lane Road
Title:  Wider view of this attractive EMD duo kicking up dust as it crosses Twin Lane Road
Description:  The trailing unit is one of two Helm (HLCX) units currently active on the WSOR system. It was built as a Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México SD40, since upgraded to SD40-2 standards. It is also one of very few (may be the last) units left in the maroon and blue paint scheme.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:02:22 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  282   Comments: 1
Blasting Through
Title:  Blasting Through
Description:  Normally, trains would be eastbound on this line at this time of day, so this was a rare opportunity for light like this!
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:03:22 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
WAMX 3947 about to depart Johnson St. yard
Title:  WAMX 3947 about to depart Johnson St. yard
Description:  The train has stopped, and two crew members have walked out into the street to direct traffic. The train will also use its horn at the normally "quiet" crossing, as the signals and gates aren't functioning for some reason.
Photo Date:  7/17/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:14:07 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  227   Comments: 1
After holding at Ingersoll St. for a work crew in the yard to clear up, L469 rolls through downtown
Title:  After holding at Ingersoll St. for a work crew in the yard to clear up, L469 rolls through downtown
Description:  Heading back to the yard, crossing the bike/pedestrian/skateboard path in McPike Park.
Photo Date:  4/3/2019  Upload Date: 4/4/2019 7:23:48 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  247   Comments: 1
The conductor lines a yard switch for L469's motor WAMX 3947
Title:  The conductor lines a yard switch for L469's motor WAMX 3947
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/3/2019  Upload Date: 4/4/2019 7:24:23 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
Radio controlled WAMX 3947
Title:  Radio controlled WAMX 3947
Description:  I was disappointed to see they've put one of the Control Chief wireless packs, and its obstructing antenna, on one of my favorite units.
Photo Date:  1/17/2021  Upload Date: 1/19/2021 9:07:34 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
Yard job with 3947 and 3872 pulls ahead
Title:  Yard job with 3947 and 3872 pulls ahead
Description:  I was pleased to see the obstructing remote control pack that was on 3947 last weekend has been removed. The power move that had just come into town from the north was waiting on these guys to clear up.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 1:44:21 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
Yard job pulls ahead to clear a switch before shoving back into the yard
Title:  Yard job pulls ahead to clear a switch before shoving back into the yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 1:48:46 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2) HLCX 6334(SD40-2)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
A who's who of WSOR power
Title:  A who's who of WSOR power
Description:  From left, we have 4170, the class unit of what were the original six ex-CRIP SD40-2s acquired by the railroad in the early 2000s (then numbered 4001). It has been recently repainted into a special 40th Anniversary scheme. Then is 4219, ex-CP and the only red and gray unit with a low headlight. 6334 is one of the two Helm lease units (6313 is coupled behind it) than has been on the property since 2017. 4181, trailing the five-unit power move, is ex-BN and one of the last units acquired by the railroad in the Gardner era. 3947, facing off with the lead unit of the power move on the same track, is the first "new" unit brought on to the property under Watco ownership.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 1:50:34 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4170(SD40-2) WAMX 4219(SD40-2) HLCX 6334(SD40-2) WAMX 4181(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  753   Comments: 0

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