On the Rock Island along 5th Street in downtown Davenport, MILW flood detour 1014 west gets a roll-by from a future railfan.

Our MILW flood detour reaches the Iowa side of the Mississippi River at Davenport via the Rock's crossing. It'll stay on the Rock through downtown Davenport and Missouri Division Jct., reaching N... (more)

We're chasing this MILW detour down the Illinois side of the Mississippi River out of Savanna. Here the train gets onto the Rock Island main at E. Moline and will soon utilize their bridge to cro... (more)

MILW 1014 rattles the windows in Port Byron, detouring over the Nitrin branch on the Illiois side of the Mississippi. What is left of this branch was owned by the BNSF and serviced by the IC&E ou... (more)

We're chasing a MILW flood detour down the Illinois side of the Mississippi out of Savanna, seen here just south of Plum Creek getting off the BN Barstow sub. The train will take a routing via th... (more)

A Milwaukee flood detour gets ready to depart Savanna for the Quad Cities via the Nitrin line on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, instead of the usual routing down the Iowa side via the... (more)

A Milwaukee flood detour gets ready to depart Savanna for the Quad Cities. The train is on the BN main passing the now razed tower, crossing the MILW tracks that it usually ran on.