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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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Added December 2010: |
 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. |
Rail
Retro is selling Hanes® T-Shirts with the GREEN BAY ROUTE logo or the
GBW cartoon figure from the 1970s.
