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       Added December 2014:  | 
  
 GBW
      614 Caboose #614 sports a HOME OF THE PACKERS football herald in April 1964.  | 
  
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       Added November 2014:  | 
  
 The
      End is Near for #22 Car #22 nears the end of its life at Cassville, Wisconsin.  | 
  
 Red
      'Packers' Boxcar InterMountain will be producing an HO ready-to-run model of a 40' PS-1 red GBW boxcar with six different road numbers.  | 
  
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       Added October 2014:  | 
  
 Yellow
      PS-1 40' Boxcar Lionel will be producing their 40' PS-1 boxcar lettered for GBW #777.  | 
  
 55'
      All-Door Box Car MTH is producing its Premier Line 55' All-Door Box Car in O scale lettered for GB&W in two road numbers.  | 
  
 40'
      Plug-Door Boxcar Atlas is producing their 40' insulated box car in HO scale lettered for the Green Bay & Western.  | 
  
 Limited
      Kit Run for Trainfest Accurail is making a special run of boxcar kits for Trainfest 2014 to be held in Milwaukee on November 8-9.  | 
  
 #311
      Builders Photo A color photo of GB&W Century 424 #311, built by by Alco in 1963.  | 
  
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       Added September 2014:  | 
  
 A
      1960s Train Travelogue DVD
      is producing a DVD from the 8 mm films of Joseph Seidl and Lynn Longley. There is some GB&W content in Seidl's portion.  | 
  
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       Added August 2014:  | 
  
 Taylor
      1909 Noted Wisconsin postcard photographer J. M. Colby captured this scene of the Green Bay & Western in Taylor in 1909.  | 
  
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       Added April 2014:  | 
  
 Scrap
      Iron It's 1944 and the country needs steel - a lot of steel - to fight the world war. This KGB&W gondola is spotted at the salvage yard, ready to take a load of scrap iron to the mill to be converted into new steel.  | 
  
GB&W Mogul Bachmann is producing their Alco 2-6-0 Mogul in a GB&W #256 paint scheme. The model comes DCC-Ready with an 8-pin NMRA plug.  | 
  
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       Added January 2014:  | 
  
 Yellow
      Gondola is producing their ready-to-run 53' Thrall Gondola in a yellow GB&W paint scheme.  | 
  
 No.
      2 at Norwood This trio of GB&W Alco C-424s arrived at Norwood Yard on Train No. 2 from Wisconsin Rapids on a crisp October morning in 1986.  | 
  
 GBW
      #310 Leads a Freight Train This photo of a freight train on the main line was taken on the North American Prototype Modelers HO scale layout in Milwaukee, Wis.  | 
  
 GB&W
      #402 Power suitable for a first-class railroad finally arrived with the three 2-8-2 Mikados #401-403 from Alco in 1937.  | 
  
 KGB&W
      #142 KGB&W #142 was one of four similar ex-New York Central 0-6-0 steam switching locomotives acquired from General Equipment Co. in 1923-25.  | 
  
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       Added December 2013:  | 
  
 1:43
      Vehicles Diecast Direct has diecast vehicles lettered for the Green Bay & Western RR. has diecast vehicles lettered for the Green Bay & Western RR. Included are a 1955 Chevy pickup (1:43 scale) and a White WC22 dump truck (1:50 scale).  | 
  
 50'
      Green Boxcar InterMountain is producing their 50 Ft. PS-1 Single Door Boxcar in the green GB&W paint scheme with a 'HOME OF THE PACKERS' logo on the car side.  | 
  
 40'
      Plug Door Boxcar Atlas O is producing their 40' insulated box car in O scale lettered for the Green Bay & Western.  | 
  
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       Added November 2013:  | 
  
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       Hoppers
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       Added September 2013:  | 
  
 Waffle-Side
      Boxcar Walthers will be producing a ready-to-run model of a GBW waffle-side boxcar in two road numbers. Pre-orders are due by October 31, 2013.  | 
  
 WRX
      Steel Reefer Southern California S Gaugers Train Club produced a custom run of Lionel American Flyer reefers painted as WRX 526. The car is a special run for the club's second annual "S Fest West 2013" show held this past May. The club has a few cars remaining for sale.  | 
  
 GBW
      23001
      Ten insulated boxcars with 10' wide plug doors were added in 1967 and they remained on the roster until 1993. The paint scheme shown was the standard applied to almost all boxcars in that era.  | 
  
 Model
      List Athearn ready-to-run #ATH87405, #ATH87406 (50' boxcar GBW 7381, 7386) added to the list of commercial models.  | 
  
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       Added August 2013:  | 
  
 Bowser
      C430 Preproduction Samples Bowser has shown preproduction samples of its new Alco C430 models in GBW paint schemes.  | 
  
Roy Campbell Collection books
      discontinued
      Merrill Publishing Associates is discontinuing publication of the Roy Campbell Collection line of books, including 'The Green Bay & Western Steam Era' and 'Wisconsin Shortline & Logging Steam.' They are having a 'Last Chance' sale on their website and will continue to publish train books that are not from the collection and plan to continue producing books for railfans. More information is available at merrillpublishingassociates.com.  | 
  
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       Added May 2013:  | 
  
 2013
      Titletown Train Show
      Green Bay & Western railfanning at the Titletown Train Show in Green Bay, Wis. on April 27-28, 2013.  | 
  
 Kraft
      Wood Reefer Atlas is producing their 40' Wood Reefer in two Western Refrigerator lines road numbers with KRAFT CHEESE MAYONNAISE billboard lettering.  | 
  
 GBW
      #101 Engineer Alfred W. Daniels is operating the 600-horsepower switch engine at Green Bay's Mason Street Yard in the fall of 1938.  | 
  
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       Added April 2013:  | 
  
 Alco
      S-2 Switcher MTH is producing their Alco S-2 switch engine lettered as Kewaunee Green Bay & Western #201. The model is equipped with MTH's Proto-Sound 3.0 DCC sound system, a smoke unit, remote controlled couplers, directional headlights and a lighted cab interior and number boards.  | 
  
 Wood
      Boxcar Weaver is producing their ready-to-run outside-braced 40' boxcar model lettered for GBW 6022, 6056 and 6244.  | 
  
Upgraded Alco S-2 with Sound Atlas has retooled their HO scale S-2 locomotive and it is available DCC-ready (Atlas Silver line) or with DCC sound (Atlas Gold line).  | 
  
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       Added February 2013:  | 
  
 Cigarette
      Lighter
      This Noble Super Automatic pocket lighter advertised the GREEN BAY ROUTE on its sides.  | 
  
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       Added November 2012:  | 
  
 
      Alco C-430 Bowser has announced production of an Alco C-430 model. The model will have correct details for the GBW #315, including Hi-Ad trucks, fuel tank and no dynamic brakes.  | 
  
Transfer Caboose Bluford Shops is producing HO scale transfer cabooses in five different body styles. At this time a model lettered for the GB&W is not available, but the Bluford Shops representative in Milwaukee told me that they plan on producing all of the road names previously done in N scale-- and GBW #102 & #104 were in their N scale line.  | 
  
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       Added October 2012:  | 
  
 Alco
      2-6-0 Mogul Bachmann is producing an N scale DCC-equipped Alco 2-6-0 Mogul based on a GB&W prototype. GB&W is not one of the road names offered.  | 
  
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       Added September 2012:  | 
  
Red KGB hopper Accurail will be selling a limited run Kewaunee Green Bay & Western offset twin hopper kit at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 10-11, 2012.  | 
  
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       Added July 2012:  | 
  
 WRX
      9015 Western Refrigerator Lines started in 1929 with a fleet of 500 wood refrigerator cars for GB&W customers; by the 1960s most of the remaining cars were painted gray and had the simplified lettering scheme shown.  | 
  
 GBW
      878 GBW 700 to 899 were Pullman Standard PS-1 boxcars delivered in boxcar red with black ends in 1951. The HOME OF THE PACKERS logo was added in the early 1960s.  | 
  
Working on the Railroad
      A partial listing (over 1,000 people) who have worked for the Green Bay Route.  | 
  
The 'Baumann Report' Jeff Baumann gives his reports on what's happening to the ex-GB&W in and around Green Bay. The latest report covers Wolf River Lumber stopping rail shipments.  | 
  
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       Added May 2012:  | 
  
Accurail is producing a kit for a 40' single sheathed boxcar lettered for KGB #5514.  | 
  
WRX steel refrigerator Accurail is producing a kit for a 40' steel plug door Western Refrigerator Lines car of the 1960s.  | 
  
 GBW
      5000 GBW 5000 was one of fifty 12' door Plate C insulated boxcars built by Fruit Growers Express for the GBW in 1981. The paint is practically still wet in this photo taken soon after it went into service.  | 
  
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       Added April 2012:  | 
  
 Trucks
      SpecCast is producing a model of a 1950s White WC22 dump truck and a White WC22 lowboy lettered for the Green Bay Route. The die-cast models have rubber tires, opening doors, hood and end gate and a detailed engine.  | 
  
 WRX
      9350 Western Refrigerator Lines #9350-9351 had a short life on the WRX roster in the late 1960s, but these two cars were then repainted and renumbered to GBW 22090-22091 in 1971 and remained in service through the end of the GBW in 1993.  | 
  
 Transfer
      Caboose Bluford Shops is producing an N scale transfer caboose lettered for GBW #102 and 104.  | 
  
 AHW
      double door boxcar Fox Valley Models is producing their ready-to-run FMC 5283 cu.ft. double door boxcar model in an Ahnapee & Western paint scheme in two road numbers.  | 
  
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       Added March 2012:  | 
  
 Side
      Dump Car Walthers is selling a ready-to-run model of a GBW side dump car. The model is in Walter's Platinum line and includes factory-installed grab irons and metal wheels.  | 
  
Locomotive Models The listing has been expanded to include N-scale models, as well as HO scale.  | 
  
 KOG/MP/GBW
      caboose WrightTRAK is producing a polyurethane resin kit for a KOG/MP/GBW caboose. An ex-MP caboose from this class was put in service on the GB&W in 1981 and was typically assigned to the 'Plover local' which served the paper mills in Central Wisconsin, then assigned to the Green Bay - Kewaunee 'Boat Train' starting around January 1990.  | 
  
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       Added February 2012:  | 
  
 GBW
      10063
      GBW 10000-10099 were 70-ton, 50'6", Plate C boxcars (former East Camden & Highland 2351-2499) which came to the railroad in three batches during 1981 - 1984. They had minimal repainting when put into GBW service. They went off the roster in 1991.  | 
  
Wisconsin and Michigan Memories DVD
      C. Vision Productions is producing a DVD from the 8 mm films of Arthur E. Paris. The DVD rounds out with the GB&W's red-and-gray Alco locomotives in Green Bay in the 1960s.  | 
  
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       Added December 2011:  | 
  
 GBW
      #55 Thrall Door boxcars arrived in the early 70s. They were used to carry hardboard products to Ford plants in the Detroit area.  | 
  
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       Added November 2011:  | 
  
 Seymour
      Depot Kit Enginehouse Services has an HO scale wood kit of GB&W's depot at Seymour, Wis. The kit is laser cut wood with roofing material.  | 
  
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       Added September 2011:  | 
  
 GB&LP
      #3 Joseph H. Scranton The crew poses with their wood-burning locomotive #3 during the early days of the Green Bay Route.  | 
  
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       Added July 2011:  | 
  
 ALCO
      2-6-0 Mogul Bachmann is producing an Alco 2-6-0 Mogul in DCC-ready and DCC sound-equipped models. The pre-production model appears to be very similar to GBW #56/256 with the correct boiler shape, driver spacing, dome placement, bell, headlight, piping and tender. The major difference between the model and the prototype is the placement of the air pumps on the fireman's side.  | 
  
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       Added June 2011:  | 
  
The 'Baumann Report' Jeff Baumann gives his reports on what's happening to the ex-GB&W in and around Green Bay. The latest report covers the Trail to Black Creek; Caboose Info.  | 
  
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       Added March 2011:  | 
  
Updated Decal Set (HO)
      DM Custom Decals' Diesel Hood Unit set now includes 36x19 inch heralds for the red-and-gray scheme and early red scheme, also 28x19 inch heralds for the later all-red scheme.  | 
  
![]() ![]()  1:43
      Vehicles Diecast Direct has 1:43 scale diecast vehicles lettered for the Green Bay & Western RR. Included are 1950 & 1953 pickup trucks, and a 1941 auto.  | 
  
 GB&W
      Adds Boxcars Jim Gingle, switch foreman for the Green Bay & Western Railroad, rides one of 450 boxcars being delivered to the railroad during a two-month period.  | 
  
 Pickle
      Car MDC Roundhouse is producing a ready-to-run 40' pickle car decorated for Green Bay Pickle Company, a division of Green Bay Food Co., reporting marks GBFX.  | 
  
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       Added January 2011:  | 
  
 KOG/MP/GBW
      caboose WrightTRAK is considering producing a polyurethane resin kit for a KOG/MP/GBW caboose. One of these former KOG/MP cabooses was added to the GBW roster the summer of 1980 and it remained with the railroad until the WC's purchase of the GBW in 1993.  | 
  
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 KGB&W
      41' Gondola Digital Fox has released a special run kit of KGB&W steel gondolas.  | 
  
 GBW
      #609 Caboose #609 soon after rebuilding with bay windows in 1940.  | 
  
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       Added November 2010:  | 
  
Cotton Tee Shirts
      
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       Added September 2010:  | 
  
 KGB&W
      Hoppers Accurail will be selling a limited run Kewaunee Green Bay & Western hopper kit at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 13-14, 2010.  | 
  
 RS-2
      Locomotive Walthers is re-running their PROTO 1000 Alco RS-2 diesel in GBW red-and-gray paint.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #618 The last new cabooses on the Green Bay Route were #608 and #618, identical cars built in 1969.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #112 The final caboose added to the roster was this second-hand cupola caboose, originally Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf #1549, later Missouri Pacific #11241.  | 
  
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       Added August 2010:  | 
  
 Truss
      Rod Boxcars Westerfield is producing resin boxcar kits of A&W and KGB&W truss rod boxcars.  | 
  
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       Added July 2010:  | 
  
 Alco
      HH 660 model Atlas will be producing their Alco HH-600/660 locomotive model in GB&W's red and gray paint scheme.  | 
  
 Caboose
      A&W #620 Ahnapee & Western's sole caboose from the 1920s onward was #020.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #08 This ex-Great Northern caboose was acquired by the GB&W in October 1925.  | 
  
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       Added June 2010:  | 
  
 Caboose
      #608 Caboose #608 was a survivor, lasting into the era when most wood cabooses had been replaced by new steel cars.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #114 Steel bay-window caboose #114.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #102 In the 1960s., the Green Bay Route built five transfer cabooses were built from the underframes of old wood cabooses.  | 
  
 Caboose
      #113 Built by Thrall Car in 1961 as #613, this caboose was renumbered into the #100- series in 1978.  | 
  
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       Added May 2010:  | 
  
 Matchbook
      Cover This matchbook from the 1980s emphasized the full range of distribution solutions offered by the GBW - railroad, trucking and warehousing.  | 
  
 Car
      Ferry Roster
      A listing of the Ann Arbor and Pere Marquette car ferries which called on the Green Bay Route at Kewaunee, and their dates of service.  | 
  
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       Added April 2010:  | 
  
 X012
      Transfer caboose X012 in Green Bay.  | 
  
 Body
      of Caboose 603 Rediscovered The body of caboose #603 was sold by the GBW in 1972 and it now serves as part of a house in northern Wisconsin.  | 
  
 Two-bay
      Hoppers GBW Historical Society is selling a kit of yellow GBW offset side twin hoppers.  | 
  
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       Added February 2010:  | 
  
 40'
      Insulated Boxcar Accurail will be producing a kit for a 40' yellow GBW insulated boxcar.  | 
  
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       Added January 2010:  | 
  
 40'
      Gondola - 3-Number Set Accurail is producing its 41' AAR steel gondola as a 3-car set with different KGB road numbers, as well as individual kits.  | 
  
Freight Car Roster
      Freight car data from 1904, 1913 and 1917 Official Railway Equipment Registers added to the freight car roster information.  | 
  
Model List
      HO scale 41' AAR gondola KGB 3-car set by Accurail added to the list of commercial models.  | 
  
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       Added December 2009:  | 
  
 Model
      List
      HO scale 40' wood reefer with 'Kraft Foods' billboard lettering by Train Miniature added to the list of commercial models.  | 
  
 Green
      Bay & Western Layout Construction Paul Bellemore of Ontario, Canada is modeling the GB&W and Fox River Valley RR in 1993.  | 
  
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       Added November 2009:  | 
  
 GBW&StP
      Pass This was the style of pass used during the last full year of operation of the Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul Railroad.  | 
  
N scale 50' waffle side boxcar GBW #2729 by A J California Crossing added to the list of commercial models.  | 
  
50' Exterior Post Boxcar Atlas is producing a yellow GB&W 50'-6" exterior-post 'Railbox' style ACF boxcar in two road different GBW road numbers.  | 
  
 Large
      scale RS-3 Joe Lienau has been modeling the A&W Railway in G scale and has a a custom painted GBW RS-3.  | 
  
 Eddie
      Gross' Proto-Freelanced GB&W Roster Eddie Gross has a complete roster of HO scale locomotives based on the prototype GB&W's roster, with a few "what-if?" additions added for fun.  | 
  
 Green
      Bay Route Lapel Pin
      Sundance Marketing is producing a Green Bay Route lapel pin.  | 
  
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       Added October 2009:  | 
  
 Ahnapee
      & Western Pass #192: Mr. Thos. P. Fowler President Ontario & Western Ry.  | 
  
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       Added August 2009:  | 
  
Magazine Articles Kitbash a GB&W Ballast Hopper, in N Scale Railroading, May / June 2009. Green Bay & Western's short ballast hopper is a fund project on a low budget.  | 
  
 C-420
      Model Atlas is producing a model of GBW #323 in both HO and N scales.  | 
  
 Whitehall
      depot to be restored Whitehall will receive $391,000 in federal grants to renovate the GB&W train depot in the heart of the city.  | 
  
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Atlas has reissued their Alco C-424 Phase III in GBW's all-red paint scheme and road number #314.  | 
  
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       Added May 2009:  | 
  
 RTR
      40' Steel Boxcar Weaver is producing a GB&W boxcar in four different road numbers.  | 
  
Athearn is producing ready-to-run models of 50' outside braced boxcars in two GBW road numbers.  | 
  
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       Added April 2009:  | 
  
 40'
      Plug Door Boxcar Atlas is producing a 40' yellow boxcar with oxide red ends in two road numbers.  | 
  
 FMC
      5347 Cu. Ft. GBW & EACH Boxcars Athearn is producing ready-to-run models of FMC 5347 cu. ft. boxcars in GBW lettering.  | 
  
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       Added February 2009:  | 
  
 FMC
      5347 Cu Ft Boxcar Fox Valley Models is producing an FMC 5347 Cu Ft single door boxcar in GBW paint with four different road numbers.  | 
  
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       Added December 2008:  | 
  
![]()  P&W
      'Paint-Outs' Marv Preussler created these fantastic GBW & AHW 'paint-out' boxcars from Athearn models.  | 
  
 50-foot
      PS 5277 50� Boxcar Athearn is reissuing their ready-to-run version of GBW's 1700- series 50' outside braced boxcars in two new road numbers.  | 
  
 WRX
      9350 Western Refrigerator Lines #9350-9351 were short-lived on the WRX roster in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  | 
  
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       Added November 2008:  | 
  
 Wood
      exterior-braced boxcar Accurail will be producing an eight-panel outside braced wood boxcar kit with GB&W lettering.  | 
  
 Amherst
      Junction Depot A westbound train takes on passengers at the Amherst Junction depot.  | 
  
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       Added October 2008:  | 
  
 The
      Crew of No. 23 Lem Lahie and Rudy Flanzer stand proudly in front of their steam locomotive in Waupaca Wis. in 1939.  | 
  
Brass RS-2 Division Point will import a brass Alco RS-2 model in a GB&W paint scheme.  | 
  
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       Added September 2008:  | 
  
 New
      Paint for #313 Ex-GB&W C-424 #313 has fresh coat of paint on the Minnesota Commercial Railway.  | 
  
Accurail will be selling a limited run 40' wood reefer at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 8-9, 2008.  | 
  
 Plover
      Depot Eastbound Train No. 2 at the Plover depot.  | 
  
 Ahnapee
      & Western reefer GBW Historical Society offers a special run Ahnapee & Western 40' wood reefer. The model is a custom-painted and lettered Accurail kit.  | 
  
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       Added August 2008:  | 
  
 WRX
      at Cheeseville WRX reefers at the Kraft Cheese plant in Plymouth, Wis.  | 
  
 GBW
      14026 Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.  | 
  
 GBW
      1155 Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.  | 
  
The 'Baumann Report' Jeff Baumann gives his reports on what's happening to the ex-GB&W in and around Green Bay.  | 
  
 Car
      54, Where Are You? This Fairmont MT-19 speeder is painted in the GB&W's classic red-and-gray paint scheme.  | 
  
Atlas is producing their Alco RS-11 diesel locomotive in GB&W red & gray paint.  | 
  
 C-424
      in red & gray Atlas O is producing their Alco C-424 locomotive in powered and unpowered versions in the GBW's red & gray paint scheme of the 1960s.  | 
  
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Accurail will be producing its 41' AAR steel gondola decorated painted and lettered for GBW.  | 
  
 Wood
      Reefer GB TV Service & Trains offers a special run of Western Refrigerator Lines 40' wood reefer lettered for Red Crown meats.  | 
  
 Matchbook
      Cover This matchbook promotes the less-than-carload service, and the inside lists the connecting railroads.  | 
  
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MDC Roundhouse is producing a ready-to-run 40' pickle car decorated for Budlong Pickle Company, a division of Green Bay Food Co., reporting marks GBFX.  | 
  
Accurail is producing a new boxcar with GBW lettering,  | 
  
The 'Baumann Report' Jeff Baumann gives his reports on what's happening to the ex-GB&W in and around Green Bay.  | 
  
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       Added March 2008:  | 
  
 Train
      List Train No. 2 departed Wisconsin Rapids at 6:30 P.M. on Saturday, February 18, 1984. The train departed 'Rapids' with 16 loaded cars, 24 empties, two engines and a caboose.  | 
  
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 Matchbook
      Cover This 'pull-quick' pack of ten matches uses a hidden ignition striker strip to ignite the round wooden match sticks as they were quickly pulled from the container and is probably from the 1930s or 1940s.  | 
  
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 Casco
      Junction Derailment A crew works to stabilize derailed hoppers at Casco Junction in the spring of 1940.  | 
  
 Offset-side
      Hoppers Full Throttle is selling 33' open offset-side two-bay hoppers in red and yellow.  | 
  
 Model
      List WRX 11981, 11982, 11983, 11984 'Marty Cheese' billboard reefer from GB TV Service & Trains, Green Bay, Wis. added to the Model List.  | 
  
 Model
      List WRX 11525, 11526 'Hamilton & Sons Canning Co.' billboard reefer from GB TV Service & Trains, Green Bay, Wis. added to the Model List.  | 
  
 40'
      Boxcar Models Accurail announced new roadnames on their line of HO models, including a 40' PS-1 boxcar and a 40' plug door boxcar.  | 
  
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 AHW
      4000 Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.  | 
  
 GBW
      X106 This MOW flatcar was built from the underframe of a passenger coach.  | 
  
 Casco
      Junction The trackwork at Casco Junction with comments from a former general manager of the railroad.  | 
  
 Consolidation
      2-8-0 Equipment diagram for KGBW #398 / GBW #399 / AHW #261 added to the 1947 Equipment Diagrams.  | 
  
 #305
      Builders Photo The first Alco RS-3 arrived on the GB&W in May 1951.  | 
  
 New
      Halls Creek Culvert This culvert replaced the damaged bridge over the East Fork of Halls Creek.  | 
  
 #305
      at the Yard Office Bill Christopher caught RS-20 #305 at the Norwood Yard office on an overcast April day in 1976.  | 
  
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       Added November 2007:  | 
  
 Eastbound
      Pulpwood at Rapids Eastbound train No. 2 has arrived at Wisconsin Rapids.  | 
  
Brass FA-1 locomotive Division Point will import a brass Alco FA-1 model in a GB&W paint scheme.  | 
  
 Railroad
      Pass The style of the passes settled into a familiar pattern, with only color changes from year to year.  | 
  
 WRX
      wood reefers Branchline Trains will be producing their WRX 40' wood reefer as a ready-to-run model with four different car models.  | 
  
 Boxcar
      Derailment A wrecker is called in to upright a GBW boxcar which is leaning precariously over the side of a wooden trestle.  | 
  
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 GBW
      787 Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.  | 
  
 1969
      Train Wreck! New pictures from the the 1969 derailment of locomotive #315 and business car #600 "ROAMER."  | 
  
 What
      If? If the Green Bay & Western had survived into the modern era, what would the motive power look like?  | 
  
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       Added September 2007:  | 
  
Coal, Water & Turntables
      Locations of these facilities on the Green Bay Route.  | 
  
![]() ![]()  Sturgeon
      Bay Great images from a very tumultuous time in the Ahnapee & Western's history.  | 
  
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       Added August 2007:  | 
  
 Mississippi
      Bridge Approach A train approaches the Mississippi River bridge after departing Bridge yard in Winona.  | 
  
![]() ![]()  New
      Power at New London Freshly rebuilt #322 was in the lead of this extra-powerful consist in May 1980.  | 
  
Accurail will be selling a limited run 40' red boxcar at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 10-11, 2007.  | 
  
 Pullman-Standard
      Boxcar The Green Bay & Western added 200 boxcars to its roster in early 1951 -- the first steel boxcars on the railroad.  | 
  
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       Added July 2007:  | 
  
 Burnt
      Boxcar A Green Bay Route boxcar got toasted in a US Plywood plant fire.  | 
  
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 Model
      List Walthers HO scale 50' gondola added.  | 
  
New locomotive model Atlas O is producing their Alco C-424 locomotive model in powered and unpowered versions, available with or without sound. Expected in 2008.  | 
  
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 Roamer
      on the Move A 1968 track bulletin covers the movement of the business car ROAMER over the railroad on May 9-10, 1968.  | 
  
 Wood-side
      Refrigerator Car Kalmbach has a limited-run (1500 models) Western Refrigerator Lines wood-side refrigerator car to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Classic Toy Trains magazine.  | 
  
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RS-2 Locomotive Walthers is producing their PROTO 1000 Alco RS-2 diesel in GBW red-and-gray paint. The model is powered with a newly-designed power train using helical gears and a 14:1 gear ratio.  | 
  
Green Bay Depot Model EngineHouse Services is planning to produce a styrene kit of GBW's Green Bay Depot. This model is based on the way the building looked shortly before the 1977 fire which destroyed it.  | 
  
 Railroad
      Pass Although always closely aligned with the GBW&StP, in 1896 the KGB&W was still an independent railroad, as evidenced by this pass.  | 
  
Decals GBW&StP boxcar #1054 and A&W reefer #3001 decal sets from Art Griffin added to the decal list.  | 
  
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      Caboose Scratcbuilt transfer caboose #101 at Norwood Yard on Marv Preussler's GB&W layout.  | 
  
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      billboard reefer The Plymouth Model Railroad Society has reefers hand painted and decaled Western Refrigerator Lines reefers.  | 
  
 Freight
      Car Photo Roster Hopper #418 was a Pullman Standard car based on the 1935 AAR standard. By 1970 most cars were painted yellow. Some remained in service until late 1980s, then sold to Wisconsin paper mills.  | 
  
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      Car Photo Roster Hoppers #414, 415 were modified as covered hoppers in the 1960s and used to supply sand to the engine facilities in Green Bay and Wisconsin Rapids.  | 
  
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      Car Photo Roster Ten green box cars were originally from a pool of 540 GAEX 50' damage-free box cars built from 1950-1955. They arrived about 1960 and were the first 50-foot boxcars on the GBW's roster.  | 
  
 Freight
      Car Photo Roster #112008 as it appeared when it arrived on the GBW.  | 
  
Magazine Articles
      The magazine article 'General American/Evans 50-foot DF box cars, part I,' in Mainline Modeler, March 1990, Hundman Publishing added. It has a photo of GAEX 112000, which was leased by GBW in the 1960s & 70s.  | 
  
Freight Car Roster
      Builders info on GBW 112000-112012 (ex- GAEX) added.  | 
  
Photos on the WWW
      82 new images from the Wisconsin Central Motive Power and Railcar photo archive added to the links to on-line photos.  | 
  
 Auto-Train
      #901 Auto-Train dome car at Green Bay & Western's Norwood Shops, April 1982.  | 
  
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      River Bridge The fisherman standing beneath the Yellow River bridge is unimpressed as 250 tons of GB&W locomotives pass overhead.  | 
  
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      Bay Window Caboose - Short
      Scale drawings of a Green Bay Route caboose.  | 
  
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      Elevator The grain elevator dominates this view of Norwood Yard in Green Bay.  | 
  
 Transfer
      Caboose #104 In the latter part of the 1960s the Green Bay & Western rebuilt most of their remaining wood cabooses as transfer cabooses like this one.  | 
  
 GBW
      X604 GBW #604 was rebuilt with bay windows, but later they were removed and the caboose renumbered X604; it was then used as a transfer caboose around Green Bay.  | 
  
 Grain
      Elevator Green Bay and Western elevator and shops in Green Bay.  | 
  
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      List
      Walthers O scale WRX #9227 added.  | 
  
 50'
      boxcar Accurail has added a 50' steel GBW boxcar to its product line.  | 
  
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 Layout
      Update An update on Bob Wandel's fantastic 1960s Kewaunee Division layout.  | 
  
Special run for Trainfest in Milwaukee, Wis. - Nov. 11 & 12, 2006.  | 
  
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 Plover
      Plume RS-2 #304 shoots a plume of Alco 'turbo lag' smoke into the Plover sky.  | 
  
1943-44 Seniority List This seniority list, compiled by Bud Beattie, has 384 GB&W/KGB&W/A&W employees.  | 
  
![]()  McGee
      Promoted A remarkable letter from the General Superintendent to the President of the GB&W informing him that he has been promoted to Locomotive Engineer.  | 
  
Museum Pieces
      Wood boxcar GBW 6158 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, and mail-baggage combine #20 at Rapid River, Mich. have been added to the list of preserved equipment.  | 
  
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 LR&W
      on the GB&W What may have been the most unique pairing of diesel locomotives to ever ride the Green Bay & Western: #312 in a one-of-a-kind "chevron" paint scheme along with LR&W #102.  | 
  
86-foot Boxcar Decals DM Custom Decals has a set of decals for GBW 86-foot auto parts high cube boxcars.  | 
  
 Wisconsin
      Rapids Depot Staff Many of the Wisconsin Rapids depot staff posed for the camera in front of the old depot.  | 
  
 Mogul
      #38 Builders Photo Kewaunee Green Bay & Western #38, built by the American Locomotive Company.  | 
  
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 Steam
      in Color A rare color photo of steam power on the Green Bay Route.  | 
  
 GBW
      #740
      Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.  | 
GBW #141 (ca. 1937)
      More information about the milk cars that ran between Casco and Sturgeon Bay in the 1930s..  | 
Model List
      The 5th Avenue Car Shops 40' wood boxcar (GBW 8142) has been added to the list.  | 
 GBW
      wood boxcar (HO)
      5th Avenue Car Shops has reissued its kit for a GBW 8100-series 6-panel wood outside braced boxcars with steel Dreadnaught ends. The car is an Accurail model with custom lettering for GBW #8142.  | 
 Pass
      (1926)
      Pass #386 was unique in that it was good for the General Manager of a nearby railroad, as well as five additional employees.  | 
Web
      Link
      Green Bay and Western Wreck in Merrillan, Jackson County, WI, 1968. Check out the link to 'additional photos' at the bottom of the page.  | 
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#302,
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        Hardwoods (1949)
        
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        Mugs
        
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        Post Boxcar (HO model)
        
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        Train (1958)
        A pair of Alco FA-1s pull a freight train along a swollen and muddy Trempealeau River.  | 
    
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        Equipment (1959)
        This photo from the 1959 annual report highlights some of the newsiest locomotives and cars on the railroad.  | 
    
 Old
        Wis. Rapids Depot (1959)
        Old depot at Wisconsin Rapids, built in 1886, which has been dismantled.  | 
    
 New
        Wis. Rapids Depot (1959)
        New depot and office building at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, constructed in 1959.  | 
    
 #310
        Builders Photo (1960)
        New 2400 horsepower diesel.  | 
    
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