A Chicago to Brooklyn Yard (PDX) Z train glides by the waiting MPDNP23 at Nolin in the pastoral farming valley between Rieth and Echo Oregon.

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 blue hour of the morning sets in just before sunrise as the Silver Bow to Pocatello manifest scoots along the Montana Sub near Monida, Montana.

UP 5968, 6305, & 8950 lead a westbound grain train past the run down elevator at Havens.