Places of Interest

Davis Junction just south of Rockford is where the Milwaukee Road had their east-west double-track main line headed east to Chicago and west to Omaha. Also, the Milwaukee Road had trackage rights on Burlington Northern's branchline to Rockford from Flagg Center just west of Rochelle and north to Rockford. Now under MILW's western successor Iowa, Chicago & Eastern, the east-west line is now single track with a siding just east of the junction, and IC&E heads north to Rockford to access customers in Janesville, WI, and connections with Wisconsin & Southern and Union Pacific's former C&NW route. The former BN's line south of here is now Illinois Railnet. The former Milwaukee Road no longer goes west to Omaha (it was abandoned and torn up in 1980), but now goes toward Dubuque, Clinton and Davenport. This line sees about 6-10 trains daily under IC&E.