23-April-2004 - Last Case-IH Unit Train
The Case-IH plant in East Moline shut it doors down forever in August of 2004, but it produced those shinny red combines until the end. In April of 2004, the BNSF ran the last unit Case-IH combine train which consisted of about 48 flatcars or 96 combines. These would not be the last Case-IH combines to run on the rails, they could be found mixed in with John Deere combines on their unit trains and mixed in with freights.