May 25, 2025 • 16 mins
The story of the Wilderness Train, a railroad that came to be known as the mainline of mid-America.
Original Air Date: August 14, 1951
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Narrator:
• Paul Shannon
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
Original Air Date: August 14, 1951
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Narrator:
• Paul Shannon
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Episode, Adventures in Research. One hundred years ago, something new
(00:49):
and great happened in this country. A landmade monster rumbled
over the horizon, frightened children, terrified horses, and converted a
wilderness into green pasture and bustling cities. That's something was
a railroad that opened the Midwest and helped make America
the colossus of the world. This is the story of
(01:10):
the Wilderness Train, a railroad that came to be known
as the main line of mid America. This is Paul
Shannon bringing you another transcribed story of science, produced as
a public service in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories,
(01:30):
and today telling you the story of the Wilderness Train.
The story begins with the name and the jungle, both
of them terrifying. The jungle is the unexplored, untamed territory
that is now Illinois. Who the swamp and Meyer move
(01:50):
Indians in Warping Illinois sees with excitement and one name
is heard everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
As governor of the State of Illinois, I proclaim that
the Indians have assumed a hostile attitude and invaded the
state in violation of the treaty. I consider the settlers
in imminent danger. No citizens should remain inactive when its
country is invaded. I called Uan's all able bodied men
(02:26):
to repost this attack.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's high time. Come on, Ted, let's join up. We
can drive that black hawk clip back to his tape.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I don't know, Johnny, Hawk's cheat any cheap lessen.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Any day that we can. Don't God taken no car
with me.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't want Holmes burn the settlers killed any more
than you.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I just say, hawks cheat. How are we going to
get to this black Hawk to give him?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Golly neds?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Get to him? What you mean?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Ted?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He and the Sux way up to the north part
of Illinois. And here you are down here in the
south part, champing at the bit, already cyching your rifle.
You got a powerful way to walk for you can
even get a beat.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
On black Hawk.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yes, take me to him, that's all.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Ain't nobody gonna take you there either, Johnny boy, You're
gonna have to walk and it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Won't be pleasant.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Going up through the state is like walking through a wilderness.
No houses, no palms.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
No nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
All go on with you. There must be people, sure,
Illinois has got people, one hundred and sixty thousand of them.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
They're all like us.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
They all built near the rivers through the north country.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
There there ain't no rivers. If there is, they don't
have no bridges, no ferries. Well, don't gone it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They got them steam engines in the east.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Why don't they get one out here to get us
to where Blackhawk is?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Steam engine?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Are you loco, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
You think black Hawk's gonna wait on a steam Well
neither am I.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Come on, let's sign up.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The men started marching. They waited breastleep for hours, pushing
the keelboats against the current, then lifting them out of
the rapid. Then through the swamps, where the baggage wagons
mire down through sink hole through glass higher than their heads.
Seeing only mosquitoes and rattlespace, the men marched, cursing black
Hawk and dreaming of a steam engine.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Black Hawk was defeated.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And after a while forgot, But the dream of a
train through the wilderness was not not by the men
who marched through the rough interior of Illinois. Wherever men congregated,
they talked.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh wait a minute, no wait, look at it this way.
There are only three settlements in the north of any
importance whatsoever. Yes, for dearborn Chicago with change much a count,
and I think he traded post on the river Aria
and Galina. All right, Carolina, they got lead mines there.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
With a railroad, we could get their lead ships south
without having to worry about the river freezing over a.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Look, what's northern Illinois got beside?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Goes let mine?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Well, it could as if we had a railroad. I
tell you, if this sham and a mockery and you
fellas listen to me, what's ailing you?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Railroads from no place to no place? What's the sentence
gone from Cairo to Chicago?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
What cargo? Oop poles and bull frogs?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
You see? It's plain foolaginess. And I for one at George,
you too, don't tell me you're for this full railroad too.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Other improvement reasons would justify, as in hook or can.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Eat the railroad.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Sources of communications, won't fail, won't be interrupt high water bowl,
water resion, weather from everything, that makes water communications.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It carries to uncertain Think it over, jackets, think it over.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, who was he to come but in his nose? Yeah,
just a politician running for the state legislature. Eh. What's
his name?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Lincoln? Abe Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Here in America, a country barely eighty years old, men
like Abe Lincoln were thinking of a railroad that would
put tracks through the wilderness, and as they dreamed, steps
were taken to bring that dream to reality. The United
States government gave a land grant for the road and
the stupendous undertaking. It was for the day track seven
hundred and five miles long, twice the distance of the
(06:47):
Erie Canal. It's cost twice that of the National Road.
A railroad to be built not with bulldozers, cranes and
pneumatic hammers, but with drawn sweat and stamina, with horses, oxen,
and men.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
We wanted three thousand track laborer waged a dollar and
a quarter a day. Here from New York, only four
to seventy five good board can be obtained at two
dollars a week. This is a rare chance for persons
to go west, being sure of permanent employment in a
(07:28):
healthy climate where land can be bought cheap and for
fertility is not surpassed in any part of the Union.
Men with families preferred.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
For CRUs of lumberjacks were sent into the forest of Michigan, Wisconsin,
and southern Illinois to produce cross ties and bridge timbers.
Ties and poles were cut in Kentucky and Tennessee and
brought to the railroad in River Parkers quarries were open
to provide stones for bridges and building foundations. Thousands of
(08:03):
US steams and horse teams were transporting rails, times lumber stone,
and provisions over long stretches of miserable roads.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And across the open prairie desert.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
A man in charge of this gigantic building operation was
Colonel Mason, into whose office came all the troubles and
turmoil of the stupendous undertaker. Let me know as soon
as you hear about our ship, the Lady of the West. Yes,
kll yes, she ought to be nearing New Orleans. Now,
iron rails and the crew of laborers. He needs them,
need them bad, and the ship's overdue. Oh yes, what
(08:42):
is it done? Two workmen been shot by the natives.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Looks like it might develop into a riot one of
our camps, getting ready to retaliate.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They call the governor. See if you can give us
any state troops to put it down. Yes, let the
work past, colonel. Now what more troubles in the middle
of the state. Men are sacking to begin into come
down with the cholera. Bloomington's reported two hundred deaths already
and it's getting worse. Hell of that, How about our
working I haven't lost any idsy snadens. The deaths a
(09:09):
frightened the men, and they're leaving like sheep.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
See what we can do? They take crews off the job,
have them helped bury the dead.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Do what you cay?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Is it? Turtle? Yes, oh jovis. News of the ship
messenger just came in, Sir. The Lady of the West
went down in the gale.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We've lost seven hundred and twenty nine tons of iron.
Help forget the iron.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What about the crew of laborers, all safe and sound, Turtle,
That's the important thing.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
We need those men.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This job must go on, and it did despite shipwrecked
riots cholera. Somehow, bare hands built embankments, cleared forests, leveled hills,
filled ravine, bridged rivers, and streams and laid mile upon
mile of railroad tracks for the iron horse to ride
(09:58):
through the wilderness. As the tracks progressed from town to town,
gala feasts and holidays were held for the first locomotive
to reach the village. Women baked, men butchered for a
mammoth free dinner to welcome the first locomotive on the
fresh tracks, but occasionally there were other welcome I tell.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
You they're gonna make glean at the end of the line. Oh,
you're gonna run the road clear as far as the
duke Uke.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Hey, that'll take all our business away from me. If
and they do it, If and they do it, what
do you.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mean, Abner, We'll stop them. Why are you looking so queer?
Try it, that's all I see. Let them just try
to run a railroad over that bridge they're building. Yeah,
I heard some folks say the bridge ain't strong enough
to hold no railway engine. It'll smash the smithereens they saying.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah, maybe they won't be around to see it. I
got he can good I have.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
That's who's going to stop them. I'm just trying to
run a train over the bridge. I'll shoot the first
engineer who tried it. You're the engineer who is going
to make the first run.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's me, colonel.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now, I don't have to tell you that the townspeople
are somewhat upset. Some of them are making bread.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
By what can happen? So I've heard, colonel, you're willing
to make a chance if.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You say the bridge is strong enough. Now I've heard
that too. The bridge is strong enough. And I promise
you one hundred dollars if you take that engine across well,
and how much do you give my widow if I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Bounces? All right, let's go, Good luck, Thank you, colonel.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The engine got through safely, and the reward was paid.
And finally, through the toil and sweat of the workers,
the plans and hopes of the leader, the Wilderness Train
was completed. And as the rails cut through the wilderness,
farms were opened, homes sprang up, schools and churches were established,
Mines were open, mills and shops, hotels and stores appeared
(12:27):
in villages and towns. Communities doubled, trebled, quadruple.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Say wait, did you see Western Bennett. It used to
be just a depot, but in a year.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
It had five hundred people three hundred buildings going up,
two hotels, six stores, and a furniture warehouse. Now it's got.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Fifteen hundred people, fifteen hundred people land of Goshen.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
All this from out of the wilderness.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, all this came about from the Iron Horse, forged
to pass through what had once been a wilderness, and
from the courage, strength, and initiative of the Midwest pioneers.
A state was carved for when the Iron Horse came
chugging through the waste lands. When the Wilderness Train passed by,
it left in its way cities, industries, farms, and towns,
(13:21):
and the road of the Wilderness Train became the main
line of Men America. And that's today's Adventure and Research,
(13:51):
produced in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. These programs
are broadcast to Armed Forces personnel overseas through the facilities
of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again next
(14:12):
week for another transcribed story of science on adventures in Research.
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The compan
Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Episode, Adventures in Research. One hundred years ago, something new
(00:49):
and great happened in this country. A landmade monster rumbled
over the horizon, frightened children, terrified horses, and converted a
wilderness into green pasture and bustling cities. That's something was
a railroad that opened the Midwest and helped make America
the colossus of the world. This is the story of
(01:10):
the Wilderness Train, a railroad that came to be known
as the main line of mid America. This is Paul
Shannon bringing you another transcribed story of science, produced as
a public service in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories,
(01:30):
and today telling you the story of the Wilderness Train.
The story begins with the name and the jungle, both
of them terrifying. The jungle is the unexplored, untamed territory
that is now Illinois. Who the swamp and Meyer move
(01:50):
Indians in Warping Illinois sees with excitement and one name
is heard everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
As governor of the State of Illinois, I proclaim that
the Indians have assumed a hostile attitude and invaded the
state in violation of the treaty. I consider the settlers
in imminent danger. No citizens should remain inactive when its
country is invaded. I called Uan's all able bodied men
(02:26):
to repost this attack.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's high time. Come on, Ted, let's join up. We
can drive that black hawk clip back to his tape.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I don't know, Johnny, Hawk's cheat any cheap lessen.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Any day that we can. Don't God taken no car
with me.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I don't want Holmes burn the settlers killed any more
than you.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I just say, hawks cheat. How are we going to
get to this black Hawk to give him?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Golly neds?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Get to him? What you mean?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Ted?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Now?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He and the Sux way up to the north part
of Illinois. And here you are down here in the
south part, champing at the bit, already cyching your rifle.
You got a powerful way to walk for you can
even get a beat.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
On black Hawk.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yes, take me to him, that's all.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Ain't nobody gonna take you there either, Johnny boy, You're
gonna have to walk and it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Won't be pleasant.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Going up through the state is like walking through a wilderness.
No houses, no palms.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
No nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
All go on with you. There must be people, sure,
Illinois has got people, one hundred and sixty thousand of them.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
They're all like us.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
They all built near the rivers through the north country.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
There there ain't no rivers. If there is, they don't
have no bridges, no ferries. Well, don't gone it.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They got them steam engines in the east.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Why don't they get one out here to get us
to where Blackhawk is?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Steam engine?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Are you loco, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
You think black Hawk's gonna wait on a steam Well
neither am I.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Come on, let's sign up.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The men started marching. They waited breastleep for hours, pushing
the keelboats against the current, then lifting them out of
the rapid. Then through the swamps, where the baggage wagons
mire down through sink hole through glass higher than their heads.
Seeing only mosquitoes and rattlespace, the men marched, cursing black
Hawk and dreaming of a steam engine.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Black Hawk was defeated.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And after a while forgot, But the dream of a
train through the wilderness was not not by the men
who marched through the rough interior of Illinois. Wherever men congregated,
they talked.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh wait a minute, no wait, look at it this way.
There are only three settlements in the north of any
importance whatsoever. Yes, for dearborn Chicago with change much a count,
and I think he traded post on the river Aria
and Galina. All right, Carolina, they got lead mines there.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
With a railroad, we could get their lead ships south
without having to worry about the river freezing over a.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Look, what's northern Illinois got beside?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Goes let mine?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Well, it could as if we had a railroad. I
tell you, if this sham and a mockery and you
fellas listen to me, what's ailing you?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Railroads from no place to no place? What's the sentence
gone from Cairo to Chicago?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
What cargo? Oop poles and bull frogs?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
You see? It's plain foolaginess. And I for one at George,
you too, don't tell me you're for this full railroad too.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Other improvement reasons would justify, as in hook or can.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Eat the railroad.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Sources of communications, won't fail, won't be interrupt high water bowl,
water resion, weather from everything, that makes water communications.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It carries to uncertain Think it over, jackets, think it over.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, who was he to come but in his nose? Yeah,
just a politician running for the state legislature. Eh. What's
his name?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Lincoln? Abe Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Here in America, a country barely eighty years old, men
like Abe Lincoln were thinking of a railroad that would
put tracks through the wilderness, and as they dreamed, steps
were taken to bring that dream to reality. The United
States government gave a land grant for the road and
the stupendous undertaking. It was for the day track seven
hundred and five miles long, twice the distance of the
(06:47):
Erie Canal. It's cost twice that of the National Road.
A railroad to be built not with bulldozers, cranes and
pneumatic hammers, but with drawn sweat and stamina, with horses, oxen,
and men.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
We wanted three thousand track laborer waged a dollar and
a quarter a day. Here from New York, only four
to seventy five good board can be obtained at two
dollars a week. This is a rare chance for persons
to go west, being sure of permanent employment in a
(07:28):
healthy climate where land can be bought cheap and for
fertility is not surpassed in any part of the Union.
Men with families preferred.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
For CRUs of lumberjacks were sent into the forest of Michigan, Wisconsin,
and southern Illinois to produce cross ties and bridge timbers.
Ties and poles were cut in Kentucky and Tennessee and
brought to the railroad in River Parkers quarries were open
to provide stones for bridges and building foundations. Thousands of
(08:03):
US steams and horse teams were transporting rails, times lumber stone,
and provisions over long stretches of miserable roads.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
And across the open prairie desert.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
A man in charge of this gigantic building operation was
Colonel Mason, into whose office came all the troubles and
turmoil of the stupendous undertaker. Let me know as soon
as you hear about our ship, the Lady of the West. Yes,
kll yes, she ought to be nearing New Orleans. Now,
iron rails and the crew of laborers. He needs them,
need them bad, and the ship's overdue. Oh yes, what
(08:42):
is it done? Two workmen been shot by the natives.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Looks like it might develop into a riot one of
our camps, getting ready to retaliate.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They call the governor. See if you can give us
any state troops to put it down. Yes, let the
work past, colonel. Now what more troubles in the middle
of the state. Men are sacking to begin into come
down with the cholera. Bloomington's reported two hundred deaths already
and it's getting worse. Hell of that, How about our
working I haven't lost any idsy snadens. The deaths a
(09:09):
frightened the men, and they're leaving like sheep.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
See what we can do? They take crews off the job,
have them helped bury the dead.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Do what you cay?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Is it? Turtle? Yes, oh jovis. News of the ship
messenger just came in, Sir. The Lady of the West
went down in the gale.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We've lost seven hundred and twenty nine tons of iron.
Help forget the iron.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What about the crew of laborers, all safe and sound, Turtle,
That's the important thing.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
We need those men.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This job must go on, and it did despite shipwrecked
riots cholera. Somehow, bare hands built embankments, cleared forests, leveled hills,
filled ravine, bridged rivers, and streams and laid mile upon
mile of railroad tracks for the iron horse to ride
(09:58):
through the wilderness. As the tracks progressed from town to town,
gala feasts and holidays were held for the first locomotive
to reach the village. Women baked, men butchered for a
mammoth free dinner to welcome the first locomotive on the
fresh tracks, but occasionally there were other welcome I tell.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
You they're gonna make glean at the end of the line. Oh,
you're gonna run the road clear as far as the
duke Uke.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Hey, that'll take all our business away from me. If
and they do it, If and they do it, what
do you.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mean, Abner, We'll stop them. Why are you looking so queer?
Try it, that's all I see. Let them just try
to run a railroad over that bridge they're building. Yeah,
I heard some folks say the bridge ain't strong enough
to hold no railway engine. It'll smash the smithereens they saying.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah, maybe they won't be around to see it. I
got he can good I have.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
That's who's going to stop them. I'm just trying to
run a train over the bridge. I'll shoot the first
engineer who tried it. You're the engineer who is going
to make the first run.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's me, colonel.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now, I don't have to tell you that the townspeople
are somewhat upset. Some of them are making bread.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
By what can happen? So I've heard, colonel, you're willing
to make a chance if.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You say the bridge is strong enough. Now I've heard
that too. The bridge is strong enough. And I promise
you one hundred dollars if you take that engine across well,
and how much do you give my widow if I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Bounces? All right, let's go, Good luck, Thank you, colonel.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The engine got through safely, and the reward was paid.
And finally, through the toil and sweat of the workers,
the plans and hopes of the leader, the Wilderness Train
was completed. And as the rails cut through the wilderness,
farms were opened, homes sprang up, schools and churches were established,
Mines were open, mills and shops, hotels and stores appeared
(12:27):
in villages and towns. Communities doubled, trebled, quadruple.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Say wait, did you see Western Bennett. It used to
be just a depot, but in a year.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
It had five hundred people three hundred buildings going up,
two hotels, six stores, and a furniture warehouse. Now it's got.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Fifteen hundred people, fifteen hundred people land of Goshen.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
All this from out of the wilderness.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, all this came about from the Iron Horse, forged
to pass through what had once been a wilderness, and
from the courage, strength, and initiative of the Midwest pioneers.
A state was carved for when the Iron Horse came
chugging through the waste lands. When the Wilderness Train passed by,
it left in its way cities, industries, farms, and towns,
(13:21):
and the road of the Wilderness Train became the main
line of Men America. And that's today's Adventure and Research,
(13:51):
produced in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. These programs
are broadcast to Armed Forces personnel overseas through the facilities
of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Join us again next
(14:12):
week for another transcribed story of science on adventures in Research.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
This has been a presentation of OTR Westerns dot Com
and we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to
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