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Passenger car roster of the Green Bay Route.
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The revenue passenger equipment, plus caboose #603, were all painted green from at least the 1920's until the end of their use (ca. 1972); however, the passenger cars demoted to MofW equipment were painted either boxcar red (most) or bright red (X22, X50).
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| Marks | Numbers | Type | MCB Designation | Length | Built | Builder | Notes | |
| 01 | GB&LP | coach | 1871 | Haskell & Barker Car Co. | The original passenger and freight equipment for the GB&LP consisted of 6 first-class passenger cars, 4 second-class passenger cars and 3 baggage-mail-express cars. Coaches were 'straw' colored. Some of this fleet was probably rebuilt into KGB&W passenger-baggage cars in 1890s. | |||
| 02 | W-GB | coach | 1919 | Acquired in 1919; likely a second-hand purchase. Still in use when the W-GB was purchased by the GB&W in 1922. | ||||
| 03 | I&N | 1 | pass.-baggage | CA | 40 | 1889.06 | Ohio Falls Car Co. | Originally GB&M; to I&N in 1893. To GB&W in 1914 and used on Iola local trains until 1930s. Later used as a depot in New Franken. |
| 04 | W-GB | 2 | combination | From KGB&W in 1909. Became GB&W #24 when the W-GB was purchased by the GB&W in 1922. Retired in 1939. | ||||
| 05 | GB&W | 5, 6 | coach | 1896.07 | Ohio Falls Car Co. | Delivered painted ruby red. Cost $3400 each. | ||
| 06 | GB&W | 9to 12 | MA | 33'-0" | Last cars retired 1929-30 when federal regulations required steel underframes for postal cars. | |||
| 07 | KGB&W | 13 | baggage | |||||
| 08 | KGB&W | 14 | mail-baggage | |||||
| 09 | GB&W | 15to 19 | baggage | BE | 49'-0" | #15 rebuilt as mail-baggage by 1913. | ||
| 10 | GB&W | 20, 21 | mail-baggage | 60'-0" | 1908 | F.M. Hicks | Rebuilt from GB&W 52-54 with Commonwealth steel underframes in 1929-30. #20 on display in Marion, Wis.; #21 to #X21 in 1945.02, was renamed "Winona" and was the "rumpus car" in the GBW's Miller's Specials in the 1950s and 1960s; donated to National Railroad Museum in Green Bay in 1963.07. | |
| 11 | KGB&W | 20, 22, 23 | mail-baggage | #20, 23 off roster by 1912; #22 by 1917. | ||||
| 12 | A&W | 21 | Later boarding car A&W B-173. Scrapped in 1935. | |||||
| 13 | GB&W | 22 | mail-baggage | 60'-0" | 1904 | F.M. Hicks | Rebuilt from GB&W 51 with Commonwealth steel underframe in 1929-30. Delco light plant (motor-driven generator) added to provide self-contained lights for the mail-baggage car and adjoining coach in 1937. Placed in non-revenue work train service in 1948, renumbered to X-22. Additional windows and removal of mail doors and partition. The X-22 was assigned to the GB&W's system paint gang. Donated by the GBW to the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1970 for display at Stonefield Village in Cassville, Wis. | |
| 14 | GB&W | 23 | mail-baggage | 60'-0" | 1909.03 | F.M. Hicks | See KGB&W #77. | |
| 15 | GB&W | 24 | pass.-baggage | Retired by 1917 (perhaps sold to W-GB?) | ||||
| 16 | GB&W | 24 | pass.-baggage | From Waupaca-Green Bay RR merger in 1922. | ||||
| 17 | GB&W | 25, 26 | pass.-baggage | CA | 51'-6" | 1899.05 | F.M. Hicks | Painted tuscan red when delivered. |
| 18 | GB&W | 27 | pass.-baggage | CA | 57 ft ? | 1903.10 | F.M. Hicks | |
| 19 | GB&W | 30, 32 | mail-baggage | MB | #32 was a originially coach. | |||
| 20 | GB&W | 31to 35 | coach | PN | 44'-0" | #32 rebuilt as mail-baggage by 1917. #34 to MOW service as B174 by 1930s. | ||
| 21 | KGB&W | 40, 41 | coach | 51'-6" | 1891 | Ohio Falls Car Co. | Six coaches total, KGB&W 40,41 and GB&W 42-45. Cost $3940 each. Painted tuscan red with gold lettering about 1900. Some survived into early 1930s as work equipment. | |
| 22 | GB&W | 42to 45 | coach | PA | 51'-6" | 1891 | Ohio Falls Car Co. | See KGB&W 40,41. |
| 23 | KGB&W | 46, 47 | coach | PN | Assigned to GB&W by 1913. | |||
| 24 | GB&W | 50 | pass.-baggage | CA | 64'-8 1/2" | Central Car & Loco (Hicks) | Renumbered to X50 in 1943. Sold in 1968 or 1969 to Trans-Northern and moved to Houghton, Mich. Sold to Scott & Bearskin Lake tourist railroad and moved to Scott, Arkansas in the spring of 1973. Scrapped in 1970s in Kansas City, Mo. | |
| 25 | GB&W | 51 | coach | PA | 59'-0" | 1904 | F.M. Hicks | Built as first-class coach GBW #51 by Hicks. 4-wheel steel-plate wood frame trucks, steam heat, oil lamps of the 2-burner chandelier type. Rebuilt as mail-baggage with steel underframe and renumbered #22 in 1930. |
| 26 | GB&W | 52to 54 | coach | PA | 59'-0" | 1908 | F.M. Hicks | Originally part of #52-54 coaches, at least three rebuilt/renumbered as #20-22 baggage/mail cars in 1929-30. |
| 27 | GB&W | 55 | business | Early business car, replaced by #99 in the early 1900s. | ||||
| 28 | KGB&W | 55, 57 | coach | 60 ft | 1906-1911 | F.M. Hicks | ||
| 29 | A&W | 56 | coach | 1909.03.27 | F.M. Hicks | Cost $5512. | ||
| 30 | GB&W | 58 | coach | PA | 59'-0" | 1906-1911 | F.M. Hicks | |
| 31 | KGB&W | 60 | pass.-baggage | 64'-8 1/2" | Central Car & Loco (Hicks) | Renumbered to X60 in 1943. Sold in 1968 or 1969 to Trans-Northern and moved to Houghton, Mich. Sold to Scott & Bearskin Lake tourist railroad and moved to Scott, Arkansas in the spring of 1973. Scrapped in 1970s in Kansas City, Mo. | ||
| 32 | KGB&W | 64 | coach | 60 ft | Originally #64, renumbered #109 in early 1940s. Converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?), now at Illinois Railway Museum. | |||
| 33 | KGB&W | 74 | pass.-baggage | 64'-3" | F.M. Hicks | |||
| 34 | KGB&W | 75 | mail-baggage | 60'-0" | F.M. Hicks | To X75 by 1950. | ||
| 35 | KGB&W | 76 | mail-baggage | 60'-0" | 1909.03 | F.M. Hicks | See KGB&W #77. | |
| 36 | KGB&W | 77 | coach | 60'-0" | 1909.03 | F.M. Hicks | Originally #77, rebuilt as mail-baggage #23 with Commonwealth steel underframe in 1930, renumbered #76 at unknown date and then X76 in 1948. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1963. Now at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. | |
| 37 | KGB&W | 78 | coach | 1910 | F.M. Hicks | |||
| 38 | A&W | 84 | coach | Car body is part of one wall of a structure at a quarry just northeast of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. | ||||
| 39 | KGB&W | 86 | coach | 59'-3" | 1914.08? | Central Car & Loco (Hicks) | Railway Age Gazette lists 1 GB&W and 1 KGB&W car ordered from AC&F in 1915. Converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947. | |
| 40 | A&W | 90 | mail-baggage | Retired ca. 1938. | ||||
| 41 | A&W | 94 | coach | 60 ft | 1893 | To GBW 94 in 1906; rebuilt in 1916; to X94 1935.01; sold to A&W on 1947.05.31; retired 1950.03.31. Sold to a naval architect for use as an office and rested next to the siding in Sawyer until it was moved to Green Quarry north of Sawyer in 1974 where it still rests today without trucks, part of a pole-barn. | ||
| 42 | A&W | 96 | pass.-baggage | Retired ca. 1938. | ||||
| 43 | GB&W | 99 | business | PC | 48'-10" | Perhaps ex GBW&StP or CM&StP car, replacing #55 in the early 1900s. Originally painted tuscan red. Demoted to roadmaster's office car after #500 was acquired. Retired in 1943. | ||
| 44 | GB&W | 106 | coach | 59'-5" | 1914.07? | Central Car & Loco (Hicks) | Railway Age Gazette lists 1 GB&W and 1 KGB&W car ordered from AC&F in 1915. Ended service in 1970s as flatcar X106. | |
| 45 | GB&W | 107, 108 | coach | 59'-5" | 1917, 1918 | American Car & Foundry | Very similar to #86 & #106. #108 to X108 1941.03. #107 converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947. | |
| 46 | GB&W | 109 | caboose-coach | 60 | See KGB&W 64. | |||
| 47 | GB&W | 500 | business | 1904 | Pullman Palace Car Co., lot #3125 | Ex- Western Union Telegraph Co. 'Morse'; cost was $10,200 after remodeling. Sold in 1945 to Iron & Steel Products Co., Chicago, Ill. Later sold to Royal American Shows. | ||
| 48 | GB&W | 600 | business | 1918.12 | American Car & Foundry | Acquired 1944 from Morris Run Coal Co., Hazelton, Penn. for $6,000 (total cost $32,782 after restoration by AC&F). Retired in 1972 and sold to a private owner. | ||
| 49 | GB&W | 901 | business | 1955 | American Car & Foundry | Originally U.P.R.R. dome car #9001, to Auto Train as #901 in 1972. When purchased by the Green Bay & Western in 1982 it was initially named Cross Lake but the name was never applied before it was changed to Trempealeau River. To Algoma Central in 1997 as "Algoma Country" on the Agawa Canyon tourist train. | ||
| 50 | GB&W | 1776 | business | 50' | 1973 | GB&W Norwood shops | Created from two International Car Company caboose shells mounted on a former Milwaukee Road 50' boxcar underframe. Still in service as the 'CANYON VIEW' camp car #77 on the Algoma Central Railway. |
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