Fred Hoeser has been a Green Bay & Western fan for many years -- since 1976 to be exact, when he had the chance to ride of the Trempealeau Valley Limited.  He lived in Independence, Wis. from 1979 to 1990 and got to know many GB&W employees and railfans during that time.

In the 1990s he had the chance to buy an ex-Milwaukee Road Fairmont MT-19 speeder.  Being a  true-blue (or is that true-red?) Green Bay Route fan, there was no way he could let the speeder remain in plain maintenance-of-way yellow.  So he painted his speeder as a GB&W speeder should have looked like.

Fred operates his motorcar with the Chippewa Valley Motorcar Association, which runs on ten miles of ex-Milwaukee road track south of Durand, Wis. which the group leases from Xccel Energy.  Fred chose the car number from the 1960s TV show, "Car 54, Where Are You?"

So if you are ever in southwest Wisconsin and see a red-and-gray Green Bay and Western speeder go by -- now you know the story!