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.
When I look in garages, more often than not I see family vehicles. One explorer looked inside an abandoned Midwestern garage and found a Lamborghini kit car and a stretch limo. Let's trade places.
Most of the abandoned Missouri locations I've shared are not places you should ever try to go to. However, this more than 150-year-old abandoned Missouri mine is one you can and should visit if mining history is something you're interested in.
There's a reason why this Illinois train sat abandoned for many years just outside of O'Hare Airport in Chicago. It has a sad history dating back to a tragedy in Downer's Grove, Illinois 30 years ago.