First employee timetable of the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railway.

The GB&LP began laying track west from Green Bay and reached New London on December 19, 1871 and regularly scheduled service began the following month.  The two trains, No. 1 & 2, became a regular fixture on the Wisconsin landscape  for the next one hundred and twenty years.

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Timetables

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GREEN BAY & LAKE PEPIN RAILWAY

TIME TABLE NO. 1

Takes effect Tuesday, January 23rd (1872), at 6 o'clock A.M.

For the Government and Information of Employees only.

All trains and engines must come to a full stop before crossing Wolf River Bridge, and must not cross until ascertained if the draw is all right.

All trains must come to a FULL STOP before crossing other railroads, and within 400 feet of same.

In the State Of Wisconsin any Train upon either Road, arriving at the crossing first, will cross ahead; but no Train or Engine must cross another Railroad at a rate of speed exceeding six miles an hour.

"In all incorporated cities [in Wisconsin], Railroad Companies shall cause the Bell on the engine to be rung before crossing any of the streets of a city — and their trains shall not go faster, until the same have passed all traveled streets of said city, than the rate of six miles per hour." — (State law.)

Source: "The Story of the Green Bay and Western," by Ray and Ellen Specht.