Caboose 999714 almost new in this photo from 1979. BNSF still uses it as a shoving platform at Topeka Ks. as of last year.

U28CG 7909 responds nicely to the engineer's liberal application of throttle.

BNSF 6955 leads a intermodal west under the since-removed ATSF signals at Yost in East Galesburg.

A BNSF stack train flies under the now gone searchlights at Yost in East Galesburg, IL.

I know it is the standard GEVO orange parade under the classic Santa Fe signals that goes on all the time....but one of these things is going away here real soon unfortunately. The signal gang is ... (more)

A Chicago to LA Q-train rolls thru the mist at the crossovers at Yost in East Galesburg. Yost is located at MP 173.7 on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub and currently is the western most control point wit... (more)

Four GE's waste no time leaving Galesburg in the dust as they pass the Santa Fe searchlights at Yost on a muggy morning.

The sun has just come up as eastbound hot intermodal train Z-STOWSP9-30L roars under the classic searchlights at CP YOST just east of Galesburg on the Chillicothe Sub.

UP's CNW heritage rolls east under BNSF's ATSF heritage cantilever signal bridges at Yost.

A special move handling the first EMD F-125 for Metrolink came off the NS at Streator, IL and is running west on the BNSF to Los Angeles. The two GP60's brought the SCAX 905 and buffer cars from ... (more)

A westbound vehicle train from Blue Island, Ill., to Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kan., approaches the control point of "Yost" in the village of East Galesburg on November 30, 2015. Luckily an e... (more)

Westbound Z-train from Willow Springs, IL, bound to Alliance, TX, blast thru the crossovers at Yost. Yost is located at MP 174 on the Chilly Sub. This train was making good time til it got near Ga... (more)

Westbound stack train passes thru the crossovers at Yost, MP 172 on the Chilly Sub. Traffic trying to get in and out of Galesburg via the Cameron Connection has traffic backed up on the Chilly Sub... (more)

On a warm and sunny spring afternoon, an eastbound Z train thunders under the old Santa Fe searchlights headed for Chicago's Willow Springs Yard.

In the last minutes of daylight a UP stack train rolls past the leaning signals at CP Yost.