No doubt indignant about having to share four lanes of highway with I-80 west of Walcott, Route 6 just flipped. Just west of here, by the way, is the world’s largest truck stop. (August 2001 photo)

The original route 6, then for many years City Route 6, passed right by this classic Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad depot in downtown Davenport. The railroad first entered Davenport in 1856 when the first railroad bridge connected that Iowa city with Rock Island, Illinois, across the Mississippi River. (1920s postcard)