Some things that were recently added to this site.
Added December 2011:
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GBW
#55 (1983.04.23)
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:
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Seymour
Depot Kit (HO)
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:
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GB&LP
#3 Joseph H. Scranton (ca. 1872)
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:
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ALCO
2-6-0 Mogul (HO)
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:
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The 'Baumann Report' (2011.06)
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:
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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.
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  1:43
Vehicles (O)
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.
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GB&W
Adds Boxcars (1979.06.16)
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.
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Pickle
Car (HO)
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:
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KOG/MP/GBW
caboose (HO)
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.
The model would be based on the company's SCL
International Car Company caboose kit with new tooling for the sides and
ends of the car. In order to make the project viable, WrightTRAK
requires a minimum 100 preorders for the kit. More details are on the WrightTRAK
home page.
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Added December 2010:
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KGB&W
41' Gondola (HO)
Digital Fox has released a special run kit of KGB&W
steel gondolas.
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GBW
#609 (1940)
Caboose #609 soon after rebuilding with bay windows in
1940.
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Added November 2010:
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Cotton Tee Shirts
 Rail
Retro is selling Hanes® T-Shirts with the GREEN BAY ROUTE logo or the
GBW cartoon figure from the 1970s.
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Added September 2010:
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KGB&W
Hoppers (HO)
Accurail will be selling a limited run Kewaunee Green Bay
& Western hopper kit at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 13-14,
2010.
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RS-2
Locomotive (HO)
Walthers is re-running their PROTO 1000 Alco RS-2 diesel
in GBW red-and-gray paint.
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Caboose
#618 (1976.05)
The last new cabooses on the Green Bay Route were #608
and #618, identical cars built in 1969.
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Caboose
#112 (1989.09.28)
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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