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During the historic 2021 western wildfire season, infrastructure on the west coast was hit hard, as a fire took down one of the bridges on UP's i5 corridor route. This would result in detours over the OSL to keep the tonnage on the move, and in a mid-term plan, block swaps became even more prominent than they already were in Nampa to handle overload tonnages. One of these detours led by UP 8899 is getting back underway for the long snaking detour across Idaho and then south down the Ogden subdivision, and then back west to Roseville.

UP LTB85 pulls past Roseport Junction and heads into Roseport.

UP 3092 leads NS 218 eastbound just west of Hoffman IL

NS 310 now passing the 352 milepost off the route 70 just outside of swain ny.

NS coal train 704 powered with a duo of UP SD70AH-T4 units leading elephant style. Not something you'd see every day on the Southern West

An EB intermodal heads east through Berea with a UP foreign powered leader. Rare for me, as intermodals on NS further east are limited from having UPs lead because of PTC and cab signal limitations