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AHW 301-400 were added to the roster in 1978 after Itel Corp. purchased the railroad. Some of these ex-P&W cars had minimal patching, while others were completely repainted dark maroon with white lettering.

AHW 2000-2099 were ex-Hartford and Slocomb boxcars. #2063 was unique that only the inside of the circular SSI logo was painted out; most others seemed to have a large square of paint covering the herald.

Hundreds of exterior post boxcars were added to the AHW and GBW rosters after Itel purchased the railroads in the late 1970s. Most were single door cars, but some were double doors, such as these Ahnapee & Western cars built by FMC.

AHW 4000 (1979.10)

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AHW 4043 (1978.08)
AHW 4054 (2000)

GBW 45 was was built by Pullman-Standard as their PSX #45 in 1962, but it soon went to the GBW. It was one of the last boxcars P-S built with a six-foot door. It went to MOW service in 1973. This paint scheme was the GBW standard in the 1970s.

Thrall Door boxcars arrived in the early 70s. They were used to carry the hardboard products to Ford plants in the Detroit area.

GBW 52 (1992.10.)

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GBW 54
GBW 55 (1992.08.29)

#80 - 81 were delivered new from Pullman-Standard in 1963; they were joined by three additional ex-McCloud River Railroad boxcars in 1971.

GBW 84 (1980.04.15)

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GBW 84 (1977.04)

Used in paper mill service. GREEN BAY AND WESTERN lettering was larger than used on other cars.

WCCL 49001 (2002.07.14)

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GBW 95

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

GBW 300-309 were added to the roster in the 1960s to carry finshed paper products; by the 1990s some of the cars were modified to carry wood chips by having their doors modified.

GBW 307

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GBW 301

Numbers 500-519 were delivered dark green in '62 and used in auto parts business. Most were painted standard GBW yellow by 1973, but #517 is proof that several cars kept their original paint a few years longer. All were gone by 1983.

Rebuilt in the late 1970s from GBW 650-691 with new doors and roller bearing trucks. These were the last 40' boxcars on the railroad. The 8' wide door types varied: #611 (Youngstown 8'), #619 (6-panel Superior 8'), the rest of the GBW 600-624 cars were similar but with 9' wide doors.

GBW 611 (1986.04.19)

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GBW 600 (1992.07)

Otherwise similar to the other GBW 600-624 boxcars, a few had 9' wide doors.

Pullman Standard PS-1 car. Delivered in boxcar red with black ends and block lettering in 1951. Some were repainted in solid boxcar red after the original Scotchlite lettering started to peel off. Around 1959 GBW/KGB started repainting cars in a bright caboose red. Yellow replaced the bright red sometime around 1963-64 as the cars were shopped.

GBW 821 (1964.04)

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GBW 740
GBW 787 (1971)
GBW 862
GBW 891 (1973.02.18)

Pullman Standard car with fishbelly sills and 9' door. These were the first cars to have the Packers logo. The cars had "assigned to Biron" lettering.

GBW 909 (1966)

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GBW 933 (1962 ca.)

These 100 boxcars had special interior fixtures to carry large rolls of finshed paper.

GBW 1135 (1973.08)

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GBW 1155 (1975)

These 50' boxcars were unique in that they had no GBW herald.

GBW 1718 (2003.04.23)

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GBW 1709

This is the standard Pullman-Standard 5277 cu.ft. boxcar.

These double door boxcars arrived in 1967 and were mainly in paper mill service. GBW 2300-2349 were similar but with single plug doors.

These riveted side cars were rebuilt with 10' plug doors in 1968 and subsequently leased to GBW.

GBW 2700-2709 arrived in 1969; Similar car series 2710-2729 arrived in 1971 but only had a black outline GREEN BAY ROUTE herald.

GBW 2700 (2003.07.12)

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GBW 2719

50' boxcars began appearing in the late 1960s; most remained in service though the early 1980s. This particular series of 100 were ex- Reading RR boxcars and carried a unique thin font for the cars numbers which only appeared on a few car series delivered in the late 1960s.

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. Most 50-foot boxcars on the GBW had 8' doors, but this particular series had 9-foot doors.

GBW 2969 (1977.10.02)

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GBW 2943 (2005.07.08)

In the 1970s, Chicago Freight Car Co. supplied several hundred 50' boxcars which were rebuilt from 40' riveted side cars. If you look at the photo you can see that the center panels were welded while the rest of the car side was riveted.

Another class of the 50' boxcars rebuilt from 40' cars.

GBW 4220

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GBW 4292
GBW 4396

In 1925 the CMStP&P ordered 5500 40' long, 40-ton cars with six side panels and 6'-0" doors, car numbers 708500-713999. and the Green Bay Route added 200 additional cars to the order (KGB 5500-5598, GBW 6000-6298, even numbers only). Some of these cars remained in service until the late 1960s.

GBW 6156

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GBW 6056
GBW 6062
GBW 6120 (1952)
GBW 6144

External-post boxcars were the standard for serving the paper industries in the 1970s and 80s.

GBW 7046

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GBW 7010 (1979.09.11)

Several hundred external post "Railbox" type cars were added to the fleet beginning in 1978.

HS 6469 (2004.03.14)

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GBW 7132 (1983.12.16)

Most of the 7450-7649 cars were yellow with black lettering.

GBW 7369 (1989.08.21)

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GBW 7268 (1993.07.16)

GBW 7550-7599 plus a few cars in the low 7600- series were blue. These cars were intended for for Meridian & Bigbee RR, but reassigned by Itel.

GBW 7537 (1990.11.25)

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GBW 7546 (1994.08)
GBW 7581 (1979.10.30)
GBW 7604 (1990.11.25)
GBW 7613 (1993.05.16)

These ex-P&W cars were never repainted.

GBW 8077 (1989.03.22)

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GBW 8020

Some of these cars were used in paper mill service into the 1970s.

Second-hand 50' boxcars came by the hundreds after Itel Corp. purchased the railroad. These are ex- New Orleans Public Belt Railroad; others were from East Camden & Highland RR and Wabash Valley RR.

Ex-Camden & Highland 4000- and 4100- boxcars became GBW 10000-10099 after minimal repainting.

Twenty-five double door boxcars arrived in 1930 for automobile service; they were later rebuilt as single door cars as shown in this photo. Note the deep side sill where the double door had been. The last of these cars were retired in 1970.

GBW 14038

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GBW 14026 (1960)

These 40' boxcars were rebuilt from 14000-series double door auto loaders. Scrutiny of the side sill shows the previous locations of the side bracing before the rebuild, and it is also interesting to note that these cars were for CLEAN loading only.

External post car built by FMC.

GBW 16256 (1980)

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GBW 16006 (1990.11.25)
GBW 16103 (1991.09.11)
GBW 16282 (1989.05.22)

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.

GBW 112008 (1969)

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GBW 112008 (pre-1960)

Waffle-side auto parts boxcars came second-hand from Grand Trunk Western in 1988.

Similar to GBW 6000-6298, but with 3/3/3 dreadnaught ends.

KGB 5538 (1968)

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KGB 5518

Fifteen covered hoppers arrived in 1990 and carried a distinctive pink paint job with painted-our reporting marks. Some cars were Farmers Co-op, others Albert City Elevator, all were ex-RREX (General Electric Rail Services Corporation).

GBW 201 (1996)

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GBW 208

Hoppers typically used to haul sand and other aggregates from Badger Mining in Taylor, Wis.

GBW 9040 (1993)

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GBW 9001
GBW 9005 (1983)
GBW 9005 (1988.02.07)
GBW 9012 (1993.06.11)
GBW 9081 (1992.02.27)
GBW 9088 (1992.09.13)
GBW 9096 (1985.01.12)

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.

GBWX 414 (1969)

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GBWX 414 (1995.04)

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.

The GB&W converted eight ex-DT&I 7000-series 41'6" gons into wood chip cars with side extensions in 1969. The side extensions were removed in the late 1970s.

Ten gondolas arrived from Thrall in 1977. Originally yellow with black lettering; there were painted red with white lettering in the 1980s.

GBW 21 (1980.04)

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GBW 21 (2005.07.03)
GBW 25
GBW 28 (1978.05.12)

Built by Thrall Corporation. Originally boxcar red, painted yellow by December 1972, then red in the 1980s.

GBW 30 (ca. 1996.06)

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GBW 33 (2002.09.24)
GBW 35 (1974.12.26)

These gondolas were primarily used for slab wood loading between Kress (milepost 159) and Green Bay Packaging on Quincy Street in Green Bay, although they also were used as idler cars at the Kewaunee car ferry docks. The cars were marked NOT FOR INTERCHANGE.

Thirty-five general-service gondolas arrived in October 1983. They were identical in appearance to a large order of Missouri Pacific cars (643550-643821) built earlier that year.

GBW 5510 (1995.06.10)

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GBW 5533

The Hart gondolas (7000-series) are ex-Wisconsin & Michigan cars built in 1924 and in service into the 1970's.

Second-hand ore cars from the LS&I were primarily used in ballast trains.

GBW 171 (1998.06.18)

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GBW 162 (1985)
GBW 164

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.

GBW 418 (1972)

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KGB 412 (1968.11)
KGB 418 (1980)

KGB 4567

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GBW 135

This ballast spreader / plow was on the roster from the late 1930s into the Wisconsin Central era.

A&W had several ex-MDT wood reefers on the roster in the 1940s & 1950s. The ice bunkers weren't used, and the cars served as insulated boxcars to ship Door County canned goods.

AW 3004 (ca. 1953)

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AW 3001 (ca. 1950)

These ex-Bangor & Aroostook insulated boxcars arrived in the late 1980s and were only on the roster for a few years.

Note the boxcar red ends on this car.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GBW acquired 40' and 50' refigerator cars to replace the wooden WRX reefers which had served for the previous forty years. This car is typical of the 40' 19xx- thru 21xx- cars acquired during 1964-67 from several builders.

GBW 21014 (1979.08)

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GBW 21007 (1978.01)
GBW 21014 (1978.09.14)

50' insulated boxcars began replacing wooden Western Refrigerator Lines (WRX) reefers in the 1960s. Note the double plug doors and unique car number font on these cars.

GBW 22045 (1979.12.26)

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WRX 9010

WRX refrigerator cars wore this simplified scheme after World War 2.

These cars lettered for DRY BLOOD LOADING ONLY were probably most commonly used at Green Bay area slaughterhouses, such as Leibman Packing.

Western Refrigerator Lines #9350-9351 were short-lived on the WRX roster in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This car is an insulated plate C boxcar built by Fruit Growers Express at their shops in Alexandria, Virginia. FGE usually leased these cars to individual railroads, but the WESTERN REFRIGERATOR LINE OWNED lettering on the car indicates that this car was an exception to that rule.

WRX 9400 cars were all steel insulated cars with plug doors. The lettering shown was typical of many of the cars in the late 1960s and beyond.

Some of the original WRX reefers were assigned to the 9650- series in the 1960s; several of these wood cars remained in service until 1975.

The 9700- cars carried this simplified paint scheme.

In the 1930s some WRX reefers had billboard advertising like this one lettered for Hamilton Canning Company of New London, Wis. The lettering practice was banned by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1937.

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