The Milwaukee chair cars came from the California Western, and were scrapped in mid-2012. There was never any gold shipments on the YW, but there was a few shipments of copper concentrates out of a mine near Happy Camp.

The last customer south of the Yreka depot (besides Suburban Propane) was a moulding plant off of Oberlin Road that would receive the occasional boxcar of lumber and ship out a loaded chip car, but that was sporadic at best, and ended in the 1990's. Suburban Propane would mainly only receive propane during the winter, with the last shipment happening in early 2011. At the most, the YW might recieve 8 or 10 propane shipments a year.

After CORP closed the Siskiyou Line in 2008 the YW was managing to stay afloat via car storage, but Court Hammond couldn't leave well enough alone, and started scrapping some of the stored cars with out permission. Hammond also attempted to scam other shortlines into storing cars for him, when he got found out by the company that owned the cars, the contracts were cancelled and the cars removed from the property. If Court hadn't had a habit of biting the hand that feeds him, and paid his bills like he was supposed to, the YW would be in a different position today. Even with the CORP shutdown, if he was still in good graces with Timber Products, there would be freight moving on the YW right now, and the Blue Goose and the 19 would still be making the daily trips from Yreka to Montague in the summer.