Post #51042 by thejab on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 8:14 PM

Day 2 continued...

We stopped in Union, IL outside Chicago to check out the Illinois Railroad Musuem. I'm a big fan of Streamliners so I had to check out the Burlington Zephyr. It's fully restored and operational. Once in a while they take it out for a short trip.

The museum is huge with about 10 aircraft hanger size buildings filled with locomotives all the way down to streetcars.

Outside there are whole trains on display.

Back on highway 20 we stopped in Rockford, IL at the Rathskeller for brats and beer. It's a delicatessen with a restaurant in the cellar and has been open since 1931. They had a fire in the 90s but spent half a million dollars restoring it and did a great job - it still looks original. We had the sausage sampler - they were all excellent and housemade.

Then we stopped in Freeport, IL at Union Dairy for some ice cream sodas.

Our stop for the night was Dubuque, Iowa, a nice historic town on the Mississippi River. We stayed at the Juilen Inn that we happily found was last remodeled in the early 60s.

The lobby was impressive with it's staircase, fountain beneath the staircase, and crazy metal sculpture suspended from the ceiling.

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[ Edited by: thejab on 2003-09-11 20:24 ]