These images and captions appeared in some of the Green Bay Route's annual reports to shareholders.
Click on any image to see an enlarged copy.
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This Howard Fogg painting appeared on the back page of the 1951 annual report. |
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Ferry Yard - Kewaunee Wis.
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A pair of Alco FA-1s pull a freight train
along a swollen and muddy Trempealeau River.
This uncredited photo appeared on the back page of the 1958 annual report. |
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Some of the fifty new especially
equipped roller bearing box cars acquired under lease arrangement from
Equitable Life Assurance Society for use in handling enameled magazine
paper.
This photo from the 1959 annual report highlights some of the newsiest locomotives and cars on the railroad. RS-3 #308 (delivered in 1955) pulls a string of yellow boxcars. These boxcars, GBW #900-#949, were the first yellow boxcars on the railroad. They were assigned to paper mill service in the Stevens Point area. |
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Old depot at Wisconsin Rapids, built
in 1886, which has been dismantled.
This photo was used in the 1959 annual report. It also appeared in Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin #115: The Story of the Green Bay and Western by Ray and Ellen Sprecht. |
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New depot and office building at
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, constructed in 1959.
This photo was used in the 1959 annual report. It also appeared in Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin #115: The Story of the Green Bay and Western by Ray and Ellen Sprecht. |
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NEW 2400 HORSEPOWER DIESEL.
Alco RS-27 was the first four-axle 2400 horsepower locomotive in service in the world. It was a one-of-a-kind RS27: It was the only one built with a recessed hand brake wheel in the nose of the unit. |
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