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Eastbound Pulpwood at Rapids

Eastbound train No. 2 has arrived at Wisconsin Rapids.

Division Point will import a brass Alco FA-1 model in a GB&W paint scheme.

Railroad Pass

The style of the passes settled into a familiar pattern, with only color changes from year to year.

WRX wood reefers

Branchline Trains will be producing their WRX 40' wood reefer as a ready-to-run model with four different car models.

Boxcar Derailment

A wrecker is called in to upright a GBW boxcar which is leaning precariously over the side of a wooden trestle.

GBW 787

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

1969 Train Wreck!

New pictures from the the 1969 derailment of locomotive #315 and business car #600 "ROAMER."

What If?

If the Green Bay & Western had survived into the modern era, what would the motive power look like?

Locations of these facilities on the Green Bay Route.

Sturgeon Bay

Great images from a very tumultuous time in the Ahnapee & Western's history.

Mississippi Bridge Approach

A train approaches the Mississippi River bridge after departing Bridge yard in Winona.

New Power at New London

Freshly rebuilt #322 was in the lead of this extra-powerful consist in May 1980.

KGB&W Boxcar

Accurail will be selling a limited run 40' red boxcar at Trainfest in Milwaukee, November 10-11, 2007.

Pullman-Standard Boxcar

The Green Bay & Western added 200 boxcars to its roster in early 1951 -- the first steel boxcars on the railroad.

Burnt Boxcar

A Green Bay Route boxcar got toasted in a US Plywood plant fire.

Model List

Walthers HO scale 50' gondola added.

Atlas O is producing their Alco C-424 locomotive model in powered and unpowered versions, available with or without sound.  Expected in 2008.

Roamer on the Move

A 1968 track bulletin covers the movement of the business car ROAMER over the railroad on May 9-10, 1968.

Wood-side Refrigerator Car

Kalmbach has a limited-run (1500 models) Western Refrigerator Lines wood-side refrigerator car to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Classic Toy Trains magazine.

Walthers is producing their PROTO 1000 Alco RS-2 diesel in GBW red-and-gray paint. The model is powered with a newly-designed power train using helical gears and a 14:1 gear ratio.

EngineHouse Services is planning to produce a styrene kit of GBW's Green Bay Depot. This model is based on the way the building looked shortly before the 1977 fire which destroyed it.

Railroad Pass

Although always closely aligned with the GBW&StP, in 1896 the KGB&W was still an independent railroad, as evidenced by this pass.

GBW&StP boxcar #1054 and A&W reefer #3001 decal sets from Art Griffin added to the decal list.

Transfer Caboose

Scratcbuilt transfer caboose #101 at Norwood Yard on Marv Preussler's GB&W layout.

WRX billboard reefer

The Plymouth Model Railroad Society has reefers hand painted and decaled Western Refrigerator Lines reefers.

Freight Car Photo Roster

Hopper #418 was a Pullman Standard car based on the 1935 AAR standard. By 1970 most cars were painted yellow. Some remained in service until late 1980s, then sold to Wisconsin paper mills.

Freight Car Photo Roster

Hoppers #414, 415 were modified as covered hoppers in the 1960s and used to supply sand to the engine facilities in Green Bay and Wisconsin Rapids.

Freight Car Photo Roster

Ten green box cars were originally from a pool of 540 GAEX 50' damage-free box cars built from 1950-1955. They arrived about 1960 and were the first 50-foot boxcars on the GBW's roster.

Freight Car Photo Roster

#112008 as it appeared when it arrived on the GBW.

The magazine article 'General American/Evans 50-foot DF box cars, part I,' in Mainline Modeler, March 1990, Hundman Publishing added. It has a photo of GAEX 112000, which was leased by GBW in the 1960s & 70s.

Builders info on GBW 112000-112012 (ex- GAEX) added.

82 new images from the Wisconsin Central Motive Power and Railcar photo archive added to the links to on-line photos.

Auto-Train #901

Auto-Train dome car at Green Bay & Western's Norwood Shops, April 1982.

Yellow River Bridge

The fisherman standing beneath the Yellow River bridge is unimpressed as 250 tons of GB&W locomotives pass overhead.

Wood Bay Window Caboose - Short

Scale drawings of a Green Bay Route caboose.

Norwood Elevator

The grain elevator dominates this view of Norwood Yard in Green Bay.

Transfer Caboose #104

In the latter part of the 1960s the Green Bay & Western rebuilt most of their remaining wood cabooses as transfer cabooses like this one.

GBW X604

GBW #604 was rebuilt with bay windows, but later they were removed and the caboose renumbered X604; it was then used as a transfer caboose around Green Bay.

Grain Elevator

Green Bay and Western elevator and shops in Green Bay.

Model List

Walthers O scale WRX #9227 added.

50' boxcar

Accurail has added a 50' steel GBW boxcar to its product line.

Layout Update

An update on Bob Wandel's fantastic 1960s Kewaunee Division layout.

50' 'Packers' boxcar

Special run for Trainfest in Milwaukee, Wis. - Nov. 11 & 12, 2006.

Plover Plume

RS-2 #304 shoots a plume of Alco 'turbo lag' smoke into the Plover sky.

This seniority list, compiled by Bud Beattie, has 384 GB&W/KGB&W/A&W employees.

McGee Promoted

A remarkable letter from the General Superintendent to the President of the GB&W informing him that he has been promoted to Locomotive Engineer.

Wood boxcar GBW 6158 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, and mail-baggage combine #20 at Rapid River, Mich. have been added to the list of preserved equipment.

LR&W on the GB&W

What may have been the most unique pairing of diesel locomotives to ever ride the Green Bay & Western: #312 in a one-of-a-kind "chevron" paint scheme along with LR&W #102.

DM Custom Decals has a set of decals for GBW 86-foot auto parts high cube boxcars.

Wisconsin Rapids Depot Staff

Many of the Wisconsin Rapids depot staff posed for the camera in front of the old depot.

Mogul #38 Builders Photo

Kewaunee Green Bay & Western #38, built by the American Locomotive Company.

Steam in Color

A rare color photo of steam power on the Green Bay Route.

GBW #740

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

More information about the milk cars that ran between Casco and Sturgeon Bay in the 1930s..

The 5th Avenue Car Shops 40' wood boxcar (GBW 8142) has been added to the list.

GBW wood boxcar (HO)

5th Avenue Car Shops has reissued its kit for a GBW 8100-series 6-panel wood outside braced boxcars with steel Dreadnaught ends. The car is an Accurail model with custom lettering for GBW #8142.

Pass (1926)

Pass #386 was unique in that it was good for the General Manager of a nearby railroad, as well as five additional employees.

Green Bay and Western Wreck in Merrillan, Jackson County, WI, 1968. Check out the link to 'additional photos' at the bottom of the page.

Sand Road (1982)

Alco C-424 #312 with a fresh on-of-a-kind paint job passes Sand Road, just west of Merillan, Wis.

Switch List (1967)

This switch list shows the cars, loads, and destinations of freight cars picked up at the Ahnapee & Western's interchange with the Green Bay & Western on Monday October 30, 1967.

Photo CD

Railroad Paper Collectibles is making a photo CD from the collection of Verne Brummel. Volume 9 of the series covers the Green Bay & Western and Milwaukee Road branch lines in Wisconsin in the 1970s.

Lettering diagram (1980)

AHW 50-foot double door boxcar. Black underframe and trucks. Black lettering and herald.

Norwood Yard

A track chart of Norwood Yard in Green Bay, Wis.

Pass (1936)

This pass was issued to the president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR, and was extended through 1937 by overwriting the expiration date.

Takin' Care of Business (ca. 1982)

GBW #323 leads a short business train.

Business Car #603 (1969)

Business car #603 in Green Bay, Wis.

New Models (HO,O)

Walthers will be producing an HO scale red 53'  gondola and MTH will be making an O scale yellow two-bay covered hopper.

GBW 2900 to 2974

Seventy-five boxcars arrived in 1974. The cars were stretched from 40' riveted side boxcars by American-Fletcher leasing and carried the standard yellow paint scheme of the 1970s.

Whitehall Depot (HO)

Walthers is producing a model based on the GBW's depot at Whitehall, Wisconsin as part of its Cornerstone series of kits.

Reorganization Letter (1991)

A July 10, 1991 letter announces that a single management team will operate the GBW and the Fox River Valley Railroad.

Taylor (1980)

Eastbound train No. 2 rolls through the town of Taylor on a beautiful summer day in Wisconsin.

Merrill Publishing Associates has a photo CD and book titled "Green Bay & Western Steam Locomotives." It contains 169 images from the collection of the late Roy Campbell.

Andy Laurent modeled the KGB's plow / ballast spreader with a low (summer) plow blade.

Scripophily

Shares of stock were issued by the railroad and represented part ownership of the company, while bonds were a loan to the railroad which needed to be repaid back on a set schedule.

Kadee has re-run its 40' PS-1 boxcar with a new GBW road number.

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

The "Baumann Report" (April 2006)

Jeff Baumann gives his reports on what's happening to the ex-GB&W in and around Green Bay.

Bill of Lading (1937)

Refrigerated car WRX #9168 shipped 36,000 pounds of potatoes from Stevens Point to Paducah, Ky.

GBW 307

Added to the Freight Car Photo Roster.

Semi Trailer Decals (HO)

DM Custom Decals has a set of decals for red Green Bay & Western Lines semi trailers. The decals have white lettering and heralds, light gray side stripe with black outline, and black numbers.

'The Green Bay Route' on DVD

Pentrex has reissued its video 'The Green Bay Route' on DVD. The 72-minute video has a chapter menu and comes in a clamshell case.

Caboose #615 (1977)

Wearing fresh yellow paint in Wisconsin Rapids.

Exterior Post Boxcar (N scale)

InterMountain will be producing a ready-to-run model of a Pullman-Standard 5277 boxcar, lettered for GBW with six different road numbers.

Envelope (1971)

This #10 envelope bore the image of GBW #314 on the front, and a stylized route map on the back with an emphasis on the railroad's car ferry connections at Kewaunee.

Ahnapee & Western Pencil (ca. 1940s)

The pencil reads:

PHONE 49
Railway Express Agency
Ahnapee & Western Railway
 E. F. Bushman, Agent.

Green Bay Junction (1909)

An early view of the Green Bay & Western's namesake depot.

Hatfield Gravel Pit (ca. 1945)

 Consolidation #399 switches the gravel pit on the east side of the Black River in Hatfield.

Historic Depot (2006)

The former GB&W depot in Whitehall was listed on the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places following a meeting of the state Historic Preservation Review Board on January 20.

Fouling the Diamond (1981)

An eastbound train fouls the Chicago & North Western crossing at Merrillan.

Cupola Caboose (1981)

Caboose #112 was at the end of an eastbound train passing through Merrillan in 1981.

Passes (1873-1947)

Railroad passes gave unlimited transportation over the Green Bay Route.

Hard Hat

A hard hat issued by the Green Bay & Western.

Snow Plow Train (1985)

RS-20 #306 and C-424 #312 push GBW's X190 plow the morning after a heavy snowfall.

Caboose #609 (1966)

GBW wooden caboose #609 near the end of its service on the railroad.

Grand Rapids Bridge (1909)

This four-span through-truss bridge was built in 1872 as part of the original railroad.

One Bay Open Hopper (1984)

Seventy-five one-bay hoppers came from the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad in 1982.

GBW Gondola (2002)

Gondola #33 at Wolf Brothers Sawmill, Stetsonville, Wis.

Alco's FA - Running in the Shadow (2005)

This new 160-page book traces the history of the Alco FA series locomotives, including the GBW/KGB fleet.

Blue 50' Boxcar (HO)

Accurail has added a 50' exterior post boxcar painted and lettered as a blue GBW boxcar.

St. Paul Coal Docks (1907)

The coal docks on the west bank of the Fox River in Green Bay started as an enterprise of the Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul RR in the 1880s -- hence the name St. Paul Coal Docks.

KGB&W Lash-Up (HO scale)

Precision Craft will be offering an Alco FA-1 set of KGB&W #501/#502. The locos are available with or without sound.

Kevin Prohl made this great model of an RS-1 from a Life-Like model.

Two-bay Hopper

Accurail has added a two-bay hopper lettered in the GBW 1940s-50s scheme to its catalog.

Jeep FC 170 hi-rail (2005)

A Jeep four-wheel drive maintenance truck still carries traces of Green Bay & Western lettering.

As modeled by Kevin Prohl.

GBW #101 sits at the Norwood Yard turntable in this undated photo from the 1950s.

Scale Reproductions has GBW limestone ballast!

It's the heart of the Great Depression, and one of the Green Bay Route's ubiquitous 2-6-0 Moguls is switching cars in the Sturgeon Bay yard.

The Baumann Report

Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western #309 represents an era of transition on the railroad, at least from a locomotive standpoint.

Alco RSD-15 'Alligator' (HO)

Broadway Limited will be producing DCC-equipped Alco RSD-15 locomotives in GBW's paint scheme.

Athearn will be producing a ready-to-run version of GBW's 1700- 50' outside braced boxcars. This model is based on an ex-MDC casting.

KGB&W #350 (ca. 1940)

At Winona, Minnesota.

Thrall Gondola (HO Scale)

Modeler's Choice has a styrene kit of a Thrall 14-panel gondola. This model  is an exact match for ten GBW gondolas built in 1977. The modeler must supply additional detail parts to complete the model.

GBW 206 (1963)

GBW 200-209 came from Greenville Steel Car Co. in 1963. Ten more similar cars came from ACF the following year.

Winona Enginehouse (1980)

Locomotives were housed in this facility at the west end of the railroad.

Alco C-424 (HO)

Atlas will be producing their Alco C-424 in new paint schemes, including GBW #319, #321 (and no number) in the all-red paint scheme of the early 1980s.

#321 in Winter (1990)

GBW's Alco C-424 #321 sits in Wisconsin Rapids on a sunny winter day.

Iola & Northern (ca. 1900)

A series of postcards shows the Iola & Northern, which would eventually become a rural branch of the Green Bay & Western.

Ex-GBW Trail to Open (2005):

The Friends of Tomorrow River State Trail invite everyone to join in celebrating the opening of a new portion of the trail starting at 1 p.m. June 4, 2005, beginning with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The new trail incorporates eight miles of ex-GBW right-of-way from near Amherst Junction to Scandinavia.

Loading the Ferry (1975)

RS-27s #316-317 load the Chessie System's City of Midland 41 on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Kewaunee.

#1201 (1981)

An interesting switcher which operated briefly on the GB&W but never was repainted.

GB&W #255 (1940) 

In the early 1900s, the Green Bay Route relied heavily on 2-6-0 (Mogul) steam locomotives for power.

Model News (HO scale)

Alco RS-27 diesel with DCC and sound from Life Like; 50' plug door boxcar from Accurail.

FA-1 Builders Photo (1949)

FA-1s like these silenced steam power on the railroad.

Leaving Bridge Yard (1972)

Alco C-424 #314 and C-430 #315 leads a train out of Winona's Bridge Yard in the summer of 1972.

Marv Preussler's Kewaunee Division (HO)

It's a beautiful spring day in Wisconsin as a Green Bay & Western RS-2 blasts its signature black smoke while pulling a one of the GBW's yellow boxcars from the Pauly Cheese Company located  in Green Bay's "cheese house" district.

A&W Bridge Token (ca. 1930)

This aluminum token was good for one crossing of the joint railroad / highway bridge in Sturgeon Bay.

Steel Bay Window Caboose (HO scale)

William K. Walthers, Inc. will be making a ready-to-run International Car Company steel bay window caboose.

Ex GBW #308 (2005)

Ex- GBW #308 has been sold in operating condition by the KB&S RR to a private owner, who plans to restore it to the GBW's classic red and gray paint scheme.

'Viking' in Kewaunee (HO scale)

Bob Wandel's carferry in in place in his GBW layout.

Crab Orchard & Egyptian boxcars (1986)

These orange boxcars came from the Ahnapee & Western in 1983.

Bridge at Dodge (2001)

The GBW's crossing of the Trempealeau River at Dodge, Wis. used an unusual skewed two-span pony truss bridge with a curved alignment to cross the muddy green waters of the Trempealeau River.

Alco RSD 15 #2405 (1992)

Some of the more unique power to ever ride on GBW rails had to be the ex- Lake Superior & Ishpeming RSD-15s.

Stevens Point (1976)

An RS-2 pulls a single car across the crossing of the Soo Line main line.

Transfer Caboose #101 (ca. 1980)

GBW #101 was a transfer caboose built in the 1960s from an old wooden caboose underframe.

East of Whitehall (1992)

Eastbound Train No. 2 crests the hill east of Whitehall.

Engine #25 and Crew (1910)

GB&W 4-4-0 #25 leads a train of flatcars loaded with earth.

Train No. 2 at Merrillan (1988)

Eastbound Train No 2 comes into Merrillan in October 1988 behind a freshly repainted #312.

WBJ&SoRR RS20s (7.5" gauge)

GBW #305 will be on display at the Metro Model Railroad Club  Show  in Cedarburg, Wis. on March 13.

#302 in the "Dead Line" (1939)

2-8-0 #302 awaits its fate with the scrapper's torch.

#302 Builders Plate (1913)

Builders plate from GBW #302, built July 1913 by the American Locomotive Company in Schenactady, N.Y. 

Bob Wandel's Kewaunee Division

The Green Bay & Western of the 1960s is being brought to life in HO scale near Denver, Colorado.

Dusk in Plover

A very late eastbound Train No. 2 pauses next to the Plover wayfreight.

GBW #321

Shows off its paint scheme of the early 1980s.

James River Job (ca. 1992)

GBW #307 pulls a cut of cars off the Quincy Street spur near the James River Paper Company.

40' PS-1 Boxcar Kitbash (HO scale)

This is a relatively straightforward kitbashing project that results in a nice model of a unique GB&W and Milwaukee Road prototype.

No. 4 at Amherst Junction (1986)

Train No. 4, the Plover way freight, works the Pavelski Enterprises (later FS Cooperative) fertilizer company in Amherst Junction.

RS-2 #301 Restoration

The DSS&A Division of the Soo Line Historical and Technical Society is offering GBW #301 the opportunity to purchase and restore this locomotive.

Twelve steps to a better Accurail WRX reefer (HO)

Andy Laurent gives tips for improving an Accurail reefer to better represent the prototype.

Alcos on the Green Bay & Western on DVD

Plets Express reports that their video 'Alcos on the Green Bay & Western' is sold out on VHS. The title will not be restocked until it is available on DVD.

RS-2s on the Move (2004)

Ex- GBW #301 and #303 were on the move from Blissfield, Mich. to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minn in October 2004.

GBW Consolidation and 50' Plug Door Boxcar (O scale)

GB TV Service & Trains is offering an O scale version of GB&W steam locomotive #302. It is a custom run of a Weaver Models 2-8-0.  They also have a custom run yellow 50' boxcar.

Conrail #2486

This Alco C-424 would become GBW #320 in about a year.

Precision National #901 (1976)

This Alco RS-27 was soon to be repainted and renumbered as Green Bay & Western #318.

CNW 902

Chicago & Northwestern #902 (future GBW #317) on what appears to be the Penn Central in April 1968.

GBW #141

This unique flatcar had tanks added to transport milk and cream from the Van Camp Condensory in Casco, Wis. to the Van Camp plant in Sturgeon Bay.

Hard-working RS-2

It is early summer 1964, and K.C. Henkels captured RS-2 #302 at Green Bay.

Report from Trainfest

November 13 & 14,. Milwaukee, Wis.

Two-Bay Covered Hopper (HO)

Walthers has re-released their 37' Trinity covered hopper as a ready-to-run model with new GBW road numbers.

Deer Hunting (1910)

Back in 1910 the Green Bay & Western used to rent box cars to hunting parties in Wisconsin.

There's nothing quite like whacking a ball with a Green Bay Route logo on it.

GBW 301, 4045

In the Freight Car Photo Roster.

40' boxcar and reefer (HO)

Special run for Trainfest in Milwaukee, Wis. - Nov. 13 & 14, 2004. 

50' Double Door Boxcar (O scale)

From MTH Electric Trains.

Model Decals (HO scale)

Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association offers HO scale decal sets for yellow, red and green GBW boxcars from the 1950s-1960s.

Homer E. McGee #312

Leads a freight train.

#251 in Sturgeon Bay (ca. 1940)

GB&W #251 leads a short freight train across the swing bridge over Sturgeon Bay.

Whitehall (1909)

Engine No. 18 is cut off from the train on the main line to switch the house and industry tracks, including the W.W. Cargill elevator at Whitehall, Wisconsin.

O Scale Freight Cars:

Two bay offset side hopper and 40' yellow boxcar from MTH Electric Trains and 50' PS-1 boxcar from Atlas O.

Hudson Street (1993)

No. 306 works Job 1 as it pulls the former Milwaukee Road interchange at Hudson Street in Green Bay on July 30, 1993.

Caboose #605 Rediscovered! (2004)

For the thirty years the trail of this relic of GBW's past went cold -- despite rumors that it still existed somewhere in the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

A&W #600 Builders Photo (1953)

The Ahnapee & Western dieselized in 1953 with a pair of General Electric 70-Ton switchers.

GBW 50-foot exterior post boxcar from Athearn's FMC 5347 boxcar model (HO scale)

Tips to model a common Green Bay & Western 50' boxcar from the 1980s.

Train No. 4 at Plover (1992)

A dirty Alco C-424 works industries at Plover.

A&W #94 (ca. 1940)

Ahnapee & Western coach #94 in MOW service.

Two shots of RS-2 #302 and RS-3 #307 together at Norwood Yard in Green Bay, taken on the same day.

50' boxcar model (HO scale)

Valley Line Detour (1992)

Broadway Tower (1992)

The Baumann Report

West End of Norwood (1993)

52'-6'' Fluted Side Gondola (HO)

Hatfield Dam (1907)

FA Train (ca. 1955)

Two FA-1s lead a westbound train somewhere on the GB&W.

KGB 5518

Norwood Shops (1993)

'Packers' red boxcar decals (multiple scales)

KGB&W #257 (ca. 1940)

Modern 50' Boxcar (HO)

#323 in Howard (1991)

Winona Today (2004)

Homer E. McGee (1992)

GBW 14038 (Freight Car Photo Roster)

GBW #399 (ca. 1940)

Industry List (1943/1953)

#309 at Del Monte (1993)

Brass RS-3 Loco (HO)

KGB 7109 (model)

Track removal at Oneida

Playing cards

Paint Schemes

Green Bay Foods (ca. 1965)

Caboose Photo Roster

#315 in Shop

A major failure required a complete rebuild of the Alco C-430 #315 in GBW's Norwood Yard shops.

GBW 10009

In the Freight Car Photo Roster. (Bob Welke photo.)

More photo roster photos: 

KGB 4567

GBW 8330
 

GBW 7023

GBW 22045

WRX Numbers

Additional car numbers for the HO scale Branchline Trains Western Refrigerator Lines (WRX) reefers.

Cigarette Lighter

An unusual billboard type advertising the Green Bay Route / Western Refrigerator Lines.

Adlake Lantern (ca. 1929)

This GB&W caboose marker lantern dates to the 1920s.

'Proto 1000' RS-11 (HO)

Life-Like Products will be producing an HO Proto 1000 Alco RS-11 diesel. Expected ship date is January 2004.

KGB&W Combine (ca. 1920)

A photo of a Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western passenger - baggage combine shows a group of men (perhaps the train crew?) in front of the car at an unnamed location.

1882 Ticket

An interesting ticket from The Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul RR. The punches indicate that it cost $1.40 for a July 24, 1882 trip from Oneida to New London, Wisconsin -- a distance of 29 miles.

Special run boxcar (HO)

For sale at Trainfest in Milwaukee, Nov. 8-9, 2003

Jordan Spreader (O scale)

MTH Electric Trains is producing a Jordan Spreader painted and lettered for the GBW 1980s-90s scheme. The model had moveable plow wings, interior and headlight lighting, and can operate on O-31 curves. It is available lettered for GBW X190 or X191.

Winona Bridge (1981)

The Winona Bridge Railway's Mississippi River bridge swing span from the center looking toward Winona.

Engineers and Firemen (1930)

Engineers and firemen as of July 1, 1930.

Seymour Model Railroad Club

The Seymour Model Railroad Club sports a fine roster of HO scale Green Bay & Western locomotives at its engine facility.

Lettering diagram

GBW 40' single sheathed wood boxcar.

GBW wood boxcar (HO scale)

Model News: 5th Avenue Car Shops has announced GBW 8100-series 6-panel, steel end wood outside braced boxcars in HO scale.

Two-bay hopper (HO scale)

Model News: GB&W Preservation Group (affiliated with the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society) has announced KGBW/GBW 401-series offset side twin hoppers in HO scale.

GBW RS-20 on the WBJ & So. RR

Progress on the 7.5" gage (1:7.5 scale) GBW RS-20 taking shape on the West�Bend, Jackson & Southern�RR.

Caboose 117 in Plover

An update on the restoration of GBW #117 in Heritage Park, Plover, Wis.

Winona Bridge (1976)

Mississippi River bridge and the Trempealeau Valley Limited.

Trempealeau Valley Limited

Schedule of the May 29-30, 1976 Trempealeau Valley Limited excursion.