Rare and one of the last trains of the BNSF Yates City Subdivision
This morning a friend gave me a heads up of a very rare move on the BNSF Yates City Subdivision. He informed me two BNSF units had the permission to head up the Yates City Subdivision to retrieve Baretable cars that had been sitting up by Saint David for months. I go check out Saint David first and take a few shots of cars they will take. St. David: A brief history on the line goes back to the 1860's when C.B.&Q built the line from Buda down to Rushville. It once provided passenger trains in the steam era, and freight of various kind. By 1980 and the 80's abandonments occurred from Buda to Elmwood and the Rushville branch. The only thing remaining was the Yates City Subdivision from Yates City to Vermont, Illinois. By 2017 track was abandoned and pulled up from Canton to south of Yates City. The only thing left active and intact was from Dunfermline to Vermont where coal trains went to the Duck Creek Power Plant. The power plant closed down in 201...