WP Detour Detour

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Western Pacific (WP) 3554 on the point of the SN Detour which is itself detouring off the ATSF and onto the SP. This train is caught heading east, crossing the SP bridge at Mossdale, CA in 1980 on a date that was not recorded. The Detour detour was probably due to the October 1980 washout on the Santa Fe in the delta near Trull that swallowed a train.
WP 3554 is an EMD GP40-2. Reportedly: it was built in 1980, builder number 786277-5, in the series WP 3545-3559. After the merger it became UP 909, then UP 2911, then UP 5318, then UP 9986.
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