| Name
|
Mark
|
System[nb 1]
|
From
|
To
|
Successor
|
Notes
|
| Air Line Railroad in South Carolina
|
|
SOU
|
1856
|
1870
|
Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway
|
| Alcolu Railroad
|
ALU
|
|
1902
|
1936
|
N/A
|
| Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1881
|
1902
|
Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
| Ashley River Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1876
|
1901
|
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|
| Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1877
|
1996
|
Norfolk Southern Railway
|
| Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1870
|
1876
|
South Carolina Air–Line Railway
|
| Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
ACL
|
ACL
|
1898
|
1967
|
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|
| Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1879
|
1882
|
French Broad and Atlantic Railway
|
| Atlantic, Greenville and Western Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1885
|
1887
|
Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railway
|
| Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1885
|
1887
|
Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad
|
| Augusta and Edgefield Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1884
|
1885
|
Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad
|
| Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1885
|
1887
|
Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad
|
| Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1880
|
1886
|
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Augusta, Knoxville and Greenwood Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
|
1880
|
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
|
| Augusta Northern Railway
|
|
|
1912
|
1941
|
N/A
|
| Bamberg, Ehrhardt and Walterboro Railway
|
|
|
1913
|
1938
|
N/A
|
| Barnwell Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1882
|
1891
|
Carolina Midland Railway
|
| Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1878
|
1879
|
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad
|
| Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad
|
B&CW
|
|
1902
|
1950
|
N/A
|
| Bennettsville and Osborne Railroad
|
|
|
1899
|
1902
|
Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad
|
| Berkeley Railroad
|
|
|
1892
|
1906
|
N/A
|
| Bishopville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1882
|
1892
|
South and North Carolina Railroad
|
| Blackville and Alston Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1885
|
1886
|
Blackville, Alston and Newberry Railroad
|
| Blackville, Alston and Newberry Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1886
|
1891
|
Carolina Midland Railway
|
| Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina
|
|
SOU
|
1852
|
1880
|
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
|
| Blue Ridge Railway
|
BLR
|
SOU
|
1901
|
|
|
| Branchville and Bowman Railroad
|
|
|
1890
|
1925
|
N/A
|
| Buffalo Union-Carolina Railroad
|
|
|
1922
|
1971
|
N/A
|
| Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1881
|
1898
|
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
|
| Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1914
|
1915
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway of South Carolina
|
|
ACL/ L&N
|
1909
|
1990
|
CSX Transportation
|
| Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1896
|
1898
|
SOU
|
| Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1882
|
1895
|
Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railway
|
| Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1887
|
1899
|
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Greenville and Knoxville Railway
|
| Carolina Midland Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1891
|
1902
|
Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
| Carolina Northern Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1899
|
1905
|
Raleigh and Charleston Railroad
|
| Carolina and Northwestern Railway
|
CRN
|
SOU
|
1982
|
1988
|
Southern Railway
|
| Carolina and Northwestern Railway
|
CR&N
|
SOU
|
1900
|
1974
|
Norfolk Southern Railway
|
| Carolina Western Railroad
|
CARW
|
|
1923
|
1971
|
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|
| Carolina and Western Railroad
|
|
|
1902
|
1916
|
|
| Catawba Valley Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1906
|
1909
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Central Railroad of South Carolina
|
|
ACL
|
1878
|
|
|
Still exists as a lessor of CSX Transportation
|
| Central of Georgia Railroad
|
CG
|
SOU
|
1971
|
1972
|
N/A
|
| Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1888
|
1893
|
Ohio River and Charleston Railway
|
| Charleston and Northern Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1895
|
1895
|
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, Manchester and Augusta Railroad, Wilson and Summerton Railroad
|
| Charleston Northern Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1913
|
1914
|
North and South Carolina Railway
|
| Charleston and Savannah Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1853
|
1867
|
Savannah and Charleston Railroad
|
| Charleston and Savannah Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1880
|
1901
|
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|
| Charleston Southern Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1915
|
1915
|
North and South Carolina Railway
|
| Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1890
|
1895
|
Charleston and Northern Railroad
|
| Charleston Terminal Company
|
|
ACL/ SOU
|
1903
|
1921
|
|
| Charleston Union Station Company
|
|
ACL/ SOU
|
1902
|
1970
|
N/A
|
| Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
|
C&WC, CWC
|
ACL
|
1896
|
1959
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1869
|
1894
|
SOU
|
| Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1901
|
1940
|
N/A
|
| Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1846
|
1869
|
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
| Cheraw and Chester Railroad
|
|
|
1873
|
1896
|
Lancaster and Chester Railway
|
| Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1867
|
1868
|
Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad
|
| Cheraw and Darlington Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1849
|
1898
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1868
|
1882
|
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad
|
| Chester, Greenwood and Abbeville Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1885
|
1886
|
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway
|
| Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1873
|
1897
|
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
|
| Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1889
|
1901
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Chesterfield and Lancaster Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1887
|
1941
|
N/A
|
| Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1835
|
1836
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad
|
| Clinchfield Railroad
|
CRR
|
ACL/ L&N
|
1924
|
1983
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
| Colleton County Railroad
|
CCYR
|
|
1986
|
1988
|
Hampton and Branchville Railroad
|
| Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1863
|
1869
|
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
| Columbia and Greenville Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1880
|
1894
|
Blue Ridge Railway, Southern Railway
|
| Columbia and Hamburg Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1858
|
1863
|
Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
| Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad
|
CNL
|
ACL
|
1886
|
1984
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
| Columbia and Sumter Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1866
|
1870
|
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
| Columbia Union Station Company
|
|
ACL/ SOU
|
1900
|
1971
|
N/A
|
| Conway Coast and Western Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1904
|
1912
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Conway Seashore Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1899
|
1904
|
Conway Coast and Western Railroad
|
| Due West Railway
|
|
|
1907
|
1940
|
N/A
|
| Duval Transportation of the Carolinas
|
|
|
1987
|
1987
|
Mid Atlantic Railroad
|
| East Shore Terminal Company
|
|
ACL/ SOU
|
1887
|
1903
|
Charleston Terminal Company
|
| Eddy Lake and Northern Railroad
|
|
|
1905
|
|
|
| Edgefield Branch Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1878
|
1879
|
Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad
|
| Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1879
|
1882
|
French Broad and Atlantic Railway
|
| Edgemoor and Manetta Railway
|
EM
|
|
1902
|
1976
|
N/A
|
| Eutawville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1885
|
1890
|
Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad
|
| Florence Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1882
|
1898
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Florence and Fayetteville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1861
|
1881
|
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway
|
| Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1893
|
1900
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| French Broad and Atlantic Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1882
|
1882
|
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway
|
| Georgetown and Lane's Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1881
|
1887
|
Georgetown and Western Railroad
|
| Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1882
|
1885
|
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
|
| Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1878
|
1882
|
Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad
|
| Georgetown and Western Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1887
|
1915
|
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway
|
| Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1887
|
1887
|
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
|
| Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1886
|
1901
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Georgia and Florida Railroad
|
G&F
|
SOU
|
1926
|
1963
|
Georgia and Florida Railway
|
| Georgia and Florida Railway
|
G&F, GF
|
SOU
|
1963
|
1971
|
Central of Georgia Railroad
|
| Glenn Springs Railroad
|
|
|
1894
|
1911
|
N/A
|
| Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1900
|
1901
|
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|
| Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1887
|
1900
|
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad
|
| Greenville and Columbia Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1845
|
1880
|
Columbia and Greenville Railroad
|
| Greenville and Knoxville Railroad
|
|
|
1904
|
1914
|
Greenville and Western Railway
|
| Greenville and Laurens Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1878
|
1886
|
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Greenville and Northern Railway
|
GRN
|
|
1920
|
1997
|
Carolina Piedmont Railroad
|
| Greenville and Port Royal Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1882
|
1885
|
Atlantic, Greenville and Western Railway
|
| Greenville and Western Railroad
|
|
|
1914
|
1920
|
Greenville and Northern Railroad
|
| Greenville and Western Railway
|
|
|
1911
|
1969
|
|
| Greenwood, Anderson and Western Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1895
|
1897
|
Sievern and Knoxville Railroad
|
| Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1880
|
1886
|
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company
|
HB
|
|
1891
|
1924
|
Hampton and Branchville Railroad
|
| Hartsville Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1884
|
1895
|
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad
|
| Horry County Railway
|
HCYR
|
|
1984
|
1987
|
Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad
|
| Kings Mountain Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1848
|
1874
|
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad
|
| Laurens Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1847
|
1881
|
Laurens Railway
|
| Laurens Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1879
|
1895
|
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad
|
| Lockhart Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1899
|
|
N/A
|
| Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1836
|
1843
|
South Carolina Railroad
|
| Manchester and Augusta Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1870
|
1898
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Marion County Railway
|
|
|
1984
|
1985
|
N/A
|
| Marion and Southern Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1907
|
1937
|
N/A
|
| Mid Atlantic Railroad
|
MRR
|
|
1987
|
1995
|
Carolina Southern Railroad
|
| Newberry and Laurens Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1885
|
1886
|
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad
|
| Newberry, Whitmire and Augusta Railroad
|
|
|
1906
|
1910
|
Augusta Northern Railway
|
| Norfolk Southern Railway
|
NS
|
SOU
|
1974
|
1982
|
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
|
| North Charleston Terminal Company
|
|
ACL/ SAL/ SOU
|
1916
|
|
|
Still exists as a joint subsidiary of CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway
|
| North and South Carolina Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1908
|
1914
|
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway
|
| Northeastern Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1851
|
1898
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina
|
|
ACL
|
1899
|
1935
|
N/A
|
| Ohio River and Charleston Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1894
|
1898
|
South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad
|
| Orangeburg Railway
|
|
|
1911
|
1920
|
N/A
|
| Palmetto Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1882
|
1895
|
Palmetto Railway
|
| Palmetto Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1895
|
1900
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Pee Dee Bridge Company
|
|
SAL
|
1911
|
1915
|
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway
|
| Pickens Railroad
|
PICK
|
|
1892
|
1996
|
Pickens Railway
|
| Piedmont and Northern Railway
|
P&N
|
|
1911
|
1969
|
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|
Electric until 1954
|
| Plant System
|
|
ACL
|
1894
|
1902
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Port Royal Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1856
|
1878
|
Port Royal and Augusta Railway
|
| Port Royal and Augusta Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1878
|
1896
|
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1886
|
1896
|
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1878
|
1901
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Raleigh and Charleston Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1905
|
1941
|
N/A
|
| Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1889
|
1900
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Richmond and Danville Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1879
|
1894
|
Southern Railway
|
| Rockingham Railroad
|
RKG
|
ACL
|
1910
|
1968
|
N/A
|
| Rockton and Rion Railway
|
ROR
|
|
1932
|
1981
|
N/A
|
| Savannah and Charleston Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1866
|
1880
|
Charleston and Savannah Railway
|
| Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1901
|
1902
|
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
|
| Savannah Valley Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
|
1886
|
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway
|
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad
|
SAL
|
SAL
|
1946
|
1967
|
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|
| Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1900
|
1945
|
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
|
| Seaboard Air Line System
|
|
SAL
|
1893
|
1900
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
|
SCL
|
|
1967
|
1983
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
| Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1889
|
1900
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| Seaboard System Railroad
|
SBD
|
|
1983
|
1986
|
CSX Transportation
|
| Sievern and Knoxville Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1898
|
1933
|
N/A
|
| South Bound Railroad
|
|
SAL
|
1882
|
1901
|
Seaboard Air Line Railway
|
| South Carolina Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1843
|
1881
|
South Carolina Railway
|
| South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
|
|
SOU
|
1827
|
1844
|
South Carolina Railroad
|
| South Carolina Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1881
|
1894
|
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
|
| South Carolina Air–Line Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1877
|
1877
|
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway
|
| South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1894
|
1902
|
Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
| South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1898
|
1902
|
Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
| South Carolina Pacific Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1882
|
1984
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
| South Carolina Terminal Company
|
|
ACL/ SOU
|
1893
|
1903
|
Charleston Terminal Company
|
| South Carolina Western Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1910
|
1914
|
North and South Carolina Railway
|
| South Carolina Western Extension Railway
|
|
SAL
|
1913
|
1914
|
North and South Carolina Railway
|
| South and North Carolina Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1892
|
1896
|
Manchester and Augusta Railroad
|
| South and Western Railroad
|
|
ACL/ L&N
|
1908
|
1909
|
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway of South Carolina
|
| Southern Railway
|
SOU
|
SOU
|
1894
|
1990
|
Norfolk Southern Railway
|
| Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
|
SOU
|
1902
|
1996
|
Norfolk Southern Railway
|
| Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1873
|
1881
|
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad
|
| Spartanburg and Union Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1847
|
1873
|
Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad
|
| Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1878
|
1896
|
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad
|
| Sumter and Wateree River Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1898
|
1902
|
Southern Railway – Carolina Division
|
| Union, Gaffney City and Rutherfordton Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1878
|
1885
|
Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad
|
| Union and Glenn Springs Railroad
|
|
|
1899
|
1922
|
Buffalo Union-Carolina Railroad
|
| Walterboro and Western Railway
|
|
ACL
|
1894
|
1900
|
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad
|
| Ware Shoals Railroad
|
WS
|
|
1908
|
1985
|
N/A
|
| Williamsburg Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1876
|
1878
|
Central Railroad of South Carolina
|
| Wilmington and Carolina Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1870
|
1870
|
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
|
| Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad
|
|
ACL
|
1885
|
1895
|
Wilmington and Conway Railroad
|
| Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
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ACL
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1870
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1898
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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| Wilmington and Conway Railroad
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ACL
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1895
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1896
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Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
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| Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
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ACL
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1846
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1870
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Wilmington and Carolina Railroad
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| Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
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ACL
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1899
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1900
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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| Wilson and Summerton Railroad
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ACL
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1888
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1899
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Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina
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