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Green Bay Route equipment preserved in museums and private collections.
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| Type | Marks | No. | Location | Notes | |
| 01 | 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. |
| 02 | 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. |
| 03 | 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. |
| 04 | 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. |
| 05 | 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. |
| 06 | 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. |
| 07 | 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 as a backup unit while the museum prepares to open to the public. |
| 08 | 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! |
| 09 | 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. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | freight car, steel hopper |
KGB | 4567 | Mid-Continent Railway Museum North Freedom, Wis. |
Acquired via the Wisconsin Power & Light Lakeside Plant. Unrestored and unlettered. |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | freight car, wood insulated boxcar |
WRX | 9000 | National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis. |
One of the original 500 cars that Western Refrigerator Lines used in its fleet. Originally and ice-cooled refrigerator car, later converted to an insulated boxcar. The car is in fair condition with peeling paint and faded lettering, and some of the siding boards need replacement. It has a simplified Western Refrigerator Lines lettering scheme used in the last years of service. 02/2008: This National Railroad Museum plans to scrap this car in the near future. |
| 17 | other, builder's plate |
GBM | ?? | New London Historical Society 900 Montgomery Street, New London, Wis. |
Builders plate from an early steam loco. |
| 18 | other, steam whistle |
GBW | 23 | Private Owner |
Steam whistle from the last 4-4-0 in service on the GB&W. |
| 19 | 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 1944 when it was purchased and restored by GB&W. Retired in 1971 and sold to provate owners. Currently owned by Kevin Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. |
| 20 | 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. |
| 21 | passenger car, mail/baggage express |
GBW | 20 | Private Owner |
Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #20 in 1930. On display at Rapid River, Michigan. |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | passenger car, mail/baggage express |
GBW | 22 | Stonefield Village Cassville, Wis. |
Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #22 in 1930. |
| 24 | 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. |
| 25 | 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?). |
| 26 | 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. |
