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Passenger car roster of the Green Bay Route.


Passenger Cars

KGB 60 or 74
This roster is incomplete, especially with regards to the pre-1940 cars. If anyone can fill in details, please contact me at mark@mathu.com. Diagrams of many of the post-World War II cars are in the 1947 Equipment Diagram.

The revenue passenger equipment, plus caboose #603, were all painted green from at least the 1920's until the end of their use (ca. 1972); however, the passenger cars demoted to MofW equipment were painted either boxcar red (most) or bright red (X22, X50).

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MarksNumbersTypeLengthBuiltBuilderNotes
01 I&N 1 pass.-baggage 40' 1889.06 Ohio Falls Car Co. Originally GB&M; to I&N in 1893. To GB&W in 1914 and used on Iola local trains until 1930s. Later used as a depot in New Franken.
02 GB&W 5 to 6 coach ? 1896.07 Ohio Falls Car Co. Delivered painted ruby red. Cost $3400 each.
03 GB&W 10 to 12 mail 39' ? ? Retired 1929-30.
04 GB&W? 15 ? ? ? ?
05 GB&W 20 to 22 mail-baggage 60' 1906-1911 Hicks Originally #51-54 coaches, at least three rebuilt/renumbered as #20-22 baggage/mail cars in 1929-30. #20 on display (private owner) in Rapid River, Mich.; #21 to #X21 in 1945.02, was renamed "Winona" and was the "rumpus car" in the GBW's Miller's Specials in the 1950s and 1960s; donated to National Railroad Museum in Green Bay in 1963.07. #22 on display at Stonefield Village in Cassville, Wis.
06 A&W 21 ? ? ? ? Later boarding car A&W B-173. Scrapped in 1935.
07 GB&W 23 mail-baggage 60' 1909.03 Hicks Originally #77, rebuilt as mail-baggage #23 in 1930, renumbered #76 at unknown date and then X76 in 1948. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1963. Now at Mid-Continent Railway Museum.
08 GB&W 24 pass.-baggage 50' ? ? From Waupaca-Green Bay RR merger in 1922.
09 GB&W 25 to 26 pass.-baggage 50' 1899.05 Hicks Painted tuscan red when delivered.
10 GB&W 27 coach ? 1903.1 Hicks
11 GB&W? 35 coach ? ? ?
12 GB&W 40 to 45? coach 50' 1891 Ohio Falls Car Co. Six coaches total. Cost $3940 each. Painted tuscan red with gold lettering about 1900. Some survived into early 1930s as work equipment.
13 GB&W 50 pass.-baggage 60' ? Central Car & Loco (Hicks) Renumbered to X50 in 1943. Sold in 1968 or 1969 to Trans-Northern and moved to Houghton, Mich. Sold to Scott & Bearskin Lake tourist railroad and moved to Scott, Arkansas in the spring of 1973. Scrapped in 1970s in Kansas City, Mo.
14 GB&W 51 to 54 coach 60' 1906-1911 Hicks Originally #51-54 coaches, at least three rebuilt/renumbered as #20-22 baggage/mail cars in 1929-30. #20 on display (private owner) in Rapid River, Mich.; #21 to #X21 in 1945.02, was renamed "Winona" and was the "rumpus car" in the GBW's Miller's Specials in the 1950s and 1960s; donated to National Railroad Museum in Green Bay in 1963.07. #22 on display at Stonefield Village in Cassville, Wis.
15 GB&W 57 to 58 coach 60' 1906-1911 Hicks
16 KGB&W 60 pass.-baggage 60' ? Central Car & Loco (Hicks) Renumbered to X60 in 1943. Sold in 1968 or 1969 to Trans-Northern and moved to Houghton, Mich. Sold to Scott & Bearskin Lake tourist railroad and moved to Scott, Arkansas in the spring of 1973. Scrapped in 1970s in Kansas City, Mo.
17 KGB&W 64 coach 60' ? ? Originally #64, renumbered #109 in early 1940s. Converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?), now at Illinois Railway Museum.
18 KGB&W 74 pass.-baggage 60' ? Hicks
19 KGB&W 75 mail-baggage 60' ? Hicks
20 KGB&W 76 mail-baggage 60' 1909.03 Hicks Originally #77, rebuilt as mail-baggage #23 in 1930, renumbered #76 at unknown date and then X76 in 1948. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1963. Now at Mid-Continent Railway Museum.
21 KGB&W 77 coach 60' 1909.03 Hicks Originally #77, rebuilt as mail-baggage #23 in 1930, renumbered #76 at unknown date and then X76 in 1948. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1963. Now at Mid-Continent Railway Museum.
22 KGB&W 78 coach ? 1910 Hicks
23 A&W 84 coach ? ? ? Car body is part of one wall of a structure at a quarry just northeast of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
24 KGB&W 86 coach 60' 1914.08 Central Car & Loco (Hicks) Converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947.
25 A&W 90 mail-baggage ? ? ? Retired ca. 1938.
26 A&W 94 coach 60' 1893 ? To GBW 94 in 1906; rebuilt in 1916; to X94 1935.01; sold to A&W on 1947.05.31; retired 1950.03.31. Sold to a naval architect for use as an office and rested next to the siding in Sawyer until it was moved to Green Quarry north of Sawyer where it still rests today without trucks, part of a pole-barn.
27 A&W 96 pass.-baggage ? ? ? Retired ca. 1938.
28 GB&W 106 coach 60' 1914.07 Central Car & Loco (Hicks) Ended service in 1970s as flatcar X106.
29 GB&W 107 to 108 coach 60' 1918 AC&F In service by 1918.01. Very similar to #86 & #106. #108 to X108 1941.03. #107 converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947.
30 GB&W? 109 caboose-coach 60' ? ? Originally #64, renumbered #109 in early 1940s. Converted to combination caboose-coach car in 1947. To Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?), now at Illinois Railway Museum.
 

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