Amtrak's Southwest Chief 4 runs departs out of Newton, Kansas 5 hours late.
The first sunlight of the day illuminates the small town of Spencer, ID as the MSBPC 09 charges through after coming down from Monida Pass.
The ZWACYP makes its way east at Topaz, Idaho with 27 reefers.
UP 844 eases into Cozad, Nebraska for a scheduled stop on its second day of its 'Trek to Tennessee' in October 2016.
BNSF 3779 leads a colorful J-WICKCK near Walton, Kansas.
UP 8447 takes charge of a slow moving grain shuttle as it descends the grade through Echo Canyon.
A BNSF manifest sits in Livingston, Montana awaiting an MRL crew to take it to Laurel.
The headlights of NS train 16T pierce through the night sky while it idles short of the signal at Glasgow waiting for the southbound NS train 201 to take the siding.
A trio of SD70ACe's lead the MSBPC 09 on a rarely seen daylight run through Monida Pass on the UP Montana Subdivision near Spencer, Idaho.
UP 7481 leads the ZG2PD 11 with the UP 1982 and UP 1983 heritage units trailing last in the consist.
UP 1995 emerges from the Kansas countryside leading the KG4LB 18 as it nears its fuel and crew change stop in Herington.
UP 8757 trails on the back of the IG3SE headed west on the Pocatello Sub.
UP 2576 leads an eastbound autorack train.
UP 8761 leads a manifest train out of Parsons, Kansas bound for Englewood, Texas.
UP 8032 highballs it west leading a stack train on the Nampa Sub near Michaud, a few miles out of Pocatello, ID.