When you're hiking through the woods, you don't expect to find a train there. But, that's exactly what happened in northern Illinois recently and I've learned this locomotive is almost 100 years old.
The rail line from East Davenport to the Canadian Pacific main lines used to see a couple of trains a month. Now several trains a day traverse the line.
I have mis-matched socks on, so you know how my Friday is starting off...
1 - Rain, rain go away! We haven't seen the sun since last Friday here in the Quad Cities. WQAD Meteorologist Eric Sorensen says the sun should return by this afternoon and hang around until a least Sunday morning...