More than 500 pages of crude operations and general rail background in the PNW:

[fortress.wa.gov]

Take with a grain of salt. This is not the first publication I've seen where Eastport, Idaho, gets referenced as "Eastgate." But more importantly, their descriptions of UP traffic through Eastport are way off. Page 192, "The route primarily handles manifest traffic, with some movement of bulk, non-hazardous commodities.." Grain and potash must be the non-hazardous bulk commodities they're referring to, but why ignore the large volume of ammonia, molten sulfur, propane, LPG, and other hazmat that does get moved daily between Eastport and Hinkle? The reason the former SI was chosen as one of UP's initial test sites for PTC was not just the dark/TWC operation but also the high level of TIH shipments.

Also on page 192, "While there is apparently little or no oil traffic operating today on the route...UP direct access to Oregon, California...could eventually result in unit crude-by-rail trains being interchanged at Eastport", the authors have not done their homework, being oblivious to the widely-reported (in regional media as well as rail publications) growth in Canadian crude through Eastport since mid-2013, culminating in the launch of unit crude service there in late 2014.