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Green Bay Route equipment preserved in museums and private collections.

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Type Marks No. Location Notes
01 ,
Stripped down to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current state of this car.
02 caboose,
steel		 GBW 113 Rock K Ranch
2372 Day Street (state highway 96), Greenleaf, Wis.		 Initially set up in the owner's front yard and may still be there, but the owner's son reports that his plan was to move it into the woods to use as a cabin.
03 caboose,
steel		 GBW 617 Portage County Historical Society
Portage, Wis.		 Located in Heritage Park in Plover, Wis. right next to the old GBW mainline and in front of the Bancroft depot that has been restored by the Central Wisconsin Model Railroaders.
04 caboose,
wood		 AW 33 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 Ex-Great Northern caboose purchased by GB&W in 1924. Bay windows added in the late 1930s and it renumbered #33 after the Ahnapee & Western became independent of the GB&W in 1947. The caboose was retired in the early 1970s when the A&W began contracting with the GB&W to provide train service.
05 caboose,
wood		 GBW 603 Private Owner
 The body serves as part of a private residence in Lakewood, Wis. It is used as a kitchen, dinning area and office.
06 caboose,
wood		 GBW 605 Private Owner
 To Copper Range RR ca. 1966. Sold to a private owner in 1972. On display near Big Bay, Mich.
07 diesel,
Alco C-420		 GBW 323 Private Owner
 Stored at Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, North Judson, Ind.
08 diesel,
Alco C-424		 GBW 322 Reading Company Technical and Historical Society
Leesport, Penn.		 Ex-Reading #5204, Conrail #2493, purchased by GB&W in March 1980. Sold to the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society in 1994. Renumbered to the original Reading loco number but still in GB&W paint. It is often leased to a small shortline near Reading Penn. and used in revenue service. The RCTHS plans to restore it to its original as delivered paint when time and money permits.
09 diesel,
Alco C-430		 GBW 315 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 Built in 1968, #315 was the last new locomotive acquired by the Green Bay Route, and the last of only 16 C-430's built. A bearing failure caused the engine to be donated to the NRM in 1987.
10 diesel,
Alco RS-20		 GBW 305 Gopher State Railway Museum
New Prague, Minn.		 #305 was one of two Alco RS-3s bought new in May 1951. It was rebuilt with a chopped nose and a 2000 HP engine in June 1976. Leased to Badger Mining by August 1994 and the GSRM acquired the engine in 1996. They currently lease the unit to CF Industries in Rosemount, Minn. While the museum prepares to open to the public.
11 diesel,
Alco RSD-15		 GBW 2407 Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Ill.		 Built in 1959 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe #9841 (later #841), it was one of six sold to the Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I #2402) in 1975. All six engines were purchased by the GB&W in November 1989, mainly as a parts supply. Donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1996. It carries an interesting 'hybrid' LS&I/GB&W paint scheme. An interesting anecdote: while en route to the IRM, this engine wound up getting on a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight out of Chicago and was discovered in Nebraska!
12 diesel,
Alco S-3		 GBW 103 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 Ex-Manistique & Lake Superior S-3 #1; if you look closely on the cab sides you can make out the 'M&LS' lettering. Later was Ann Arbor #10 after M&LS was abandoned. Although it is now displayed in GB&W paint, it was never owned by nor operated on the Green Bay Route.
13 diesel,
Alco S-6		 James River 1201 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 GB&W leased ex-Southern Pacific #1201 (built 1955.05 b/n #80924) from Chrome Crankshaft of Chicago on 1979.04. It was then leased to Nekoosa Edwards ca. 1979.07 but by 1981.01.24 it was back at Norwood Yard switching cars. GB&W refurbished the locomotive as James River #1201 where it went into service in Green Bay, early 1982. Purchased by the NRM in 1997 with funds from the Donnelley Foundation with some parts and tools donated by Wisconsin Central for servicing the unit. Wisconsin Public Service provided support and manpower to get #1201 into running condition.
14 diesel,
Westinghouse 'Visibility Cab' switcher		 ARMCo B-71 Minnesota Transportation Museum
St. Paul, Minn.		 Briefly served on the Algoma RR tourist line which operated on the Ahnapee & Western tracks in the 1970s.
15 freight car,
steel hopper		 KGB 4567 Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.		 Acquired via the Wisconsin Power & Light Lakeside Plant. Unrestored and unlettered.
16 freight car,
wood boxcar		 GBW 6158 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 Stored outside at museum; faded GBW lettering can still be seen on car sides.
17 freight car,
wood boxcar		 GBW 8020 Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.		 Built in 1925 by General American Car Company. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1964; acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It is used for the storage of locomotive parts.
18 freight car,
wood coach		 AW 84 Private Owner
 Serves as one wall of a structure at a quarry just northeast of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The body isn't in terrible shape but the trucks and most of the running gear are gone. Located on North Duluth Avenue just north of County Highway C. It is on the left just after the curve in the road. To gain access to the building go up the very steep driveway just past north of the quarry entrance. There is a house up there, and they own the shed that the car is in.
19 other,
builder's plate		 GBM ?? New London Historical Society
900 Montgomery Street, New London, Wis.		 Builders plate from an early steam loco.
20 other,
steam whistle		 GBW 23 Private Owner
 Steam whistle from the last 4-4-0 in service on the GB&W.
21 passenger car,
business car		 GBW 600 Private Owner
 Built by ACF in 1918 as a private car for oil millionaire Joshua Cosden. Used as housing on the Morris Run Coal Company by 1937; purchased and restored by GB&W in 1944. Retired in 1971 and sold to private owners. Currently owned by Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway.
22 passenger car,
mail express		 KGB 76 Private Owner
 Ron Marquart owns this car, along with C&NW caboose #10341. The car is used as a machine shop. On display at state highway 113, south of Baraboo, Wis.
23 passenger car,
mail/baggage express		 GBW 20 Private Owner
 Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #20 in 1930. Moved to Marion, Wis. in 2014 and is on display at the depot located on E Ramsdell St.
24 passenger car,
mail/baggage express		 GBW 21 National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.		 Originally GB&W coach #52, buil 1906. Rebuilt as mail/baggage express #21 in 1930. The car is now in an unusual white with yellow & black trim color scheme, not sure if it ever had these colors on the GB&W.
25 passenger car,
mail/baggage express		 GBW 22 Stonefield Village
Cassville, Wis.		 Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #22 in 1930. Stripped to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current status of this car.
26 passenger car,
mail/baggage express		 KGB 77 Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.		 uilt in March 1909 by Hicks Locomotive and Car Works of Chicago Heights, Ill. Renumbered to GB&W #23 in 1930, then KGB&W #76 at an unknown date, and eventually GB&W #X-76 in 1948 and used for work service. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist railroad in 1964, and acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It serves as a work shop and tool and material storage for steam locomotive LS&I #22.
27 passenger car,
wood coach		 GBW 109 Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Ill.		 Built by ACF about 1918. Steel bay windows installed in 1947 for use as a caboose-passenger car on mixed trains. One of the final coaches to provide passenger service when the GB&W abandoned passenger operations in 1949. It was sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?).
28 steam,
Alco 2-8-0		 KGB 49 Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.		 Built as KGB&W #49 in 1929 and renumbered to #350 in November 1936. When the GB&W converted to diesels it was sold to Consolidated Papers in 1950 and worked in their Wisconsin Rapids paper mill. Donated to the city of Wisconsin Rapids in 1957 and displayed in a public park until 1981 when it was donated to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. The locomotive has been restored to her pre-1936 appearance. It is the only preserved Green Bay Route steam engine.
 

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