The end of steam power on the Green Bay Route.
It's May, 1952... steam power has already been silenced by the arrival of diesel
locomotives. After months of storage at Norwood Yard, the GBW's last steam
locomotives were hauled off for scrap. This photo shows #406, the very
last GBW steam loco, on what may have been its very last day on the railroad.
Notice the diesel switchers behind the tender and on the adjacent track.

Charles Willhoft photo, May 25, 1952.
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