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Boxcar Derailment
Engine #25 and Crew
#302 Builders plate
Mogul #38 Builders Photo
Mogul #53
KGB&W Combine
Locomotive #20
#18
GBW #101 (1938)
GB&W #302
GB&W #255
KGB&W #350
A&W X94
GBW #141
GB&W #399
KGB&W #257
FA-1 Builders Photo
"Roamer" China
HH 660 #101 at Norwood
A&W 3004
'51 Freight Train
Sleek Power
Ferry Yard
FA Train
'58 Freight Train
New Equipment
AHW #600
#309 High Hood
#310 Builders Photo
#302, #307 at Norwood
FA-1 Power
40' PS-1 Boxcar
RS-11 #309
#311 Builders Photo
End of an Era
Hard-Working RS-2
C-424 #311
Pullman-Standard Boxcar
RS-2 #304
C-424 #312
Caboose #609
C-424 #313
RS-3 #306
Caboose #607
RS-27 #310
#315 Builders Photo
#903
CNW 902
RS-2 #301
S-1 #102
S-1 #103
S-2 #201
RS-2 #302
RS-3 #305
RS-3 #307
RS-27 #310
Plow Train
Ballast Tamper
S-1 #102
RS-2 #301
RS-2 #303
C-424 #314
WRX
Business car #603
Burnt Boxcar
C-430 #315
WRX 9350
Business Car 1776
"Roamer"
C-424 #313
Leaving Bridge Yard
"All Red" RS-2
1776 at Wis. Rapids
Plover Plume
RS-2 #304
RS-20 #308
RS-2 #304
RS-27 #317
#315 in Shop
#315 in Wisconsin Rapids
Precision National 901
McGee Promoted
Train No. 1 at Norwood
Caboose 615
#310 at Green Bay
Conrail #2486
GB&W Adds Boxcars
#321
Jordan Spreader
GBW #315
Switching Power
Transfer Caboose
Transfer Caboose #101
Cupola Caboose
Alco Smoke!
Caboose #112
Auto-Train #901
Takin' Care of Business
LR&W on the GB&W
One Bay Open Hopper
Homer E. McGee #312
No. 4 at Amherst Junction
Wisconsin Rapids Winter
#320 at Whiting
Wisconsin Rapids Power
C-420/424 hoods
Business Train
Caboose #101
#323 at Wisconsin Rapids
#305 on the FRVR
#321 in Winter
Jordan Spreader
Dusk in Plover
#323 in Howard
"Sprint" Train No. 10
RSD-15 #2404
Homer E. McGee
Crew on No. 2
Train No. 4 at Plover
Alco RSD 15 #2405
C-420 #323
GBW #312
Trio of Power
West End of Norwood
RS-20 #305
WC #308
#319 on the CALM
Ex-GB&W in Arkansas
AHW Boxcar #4054
Caboose #101
Caboose #112
Boxcar #1001
Jordan Spreader X190
Caboose 115
What's Left of Norwood?
Side Dump Cars
GBW Gondola
605 Rediscovered!
RS-2s on the Move
Ex- GBW #308
Jeep FC 170 hi-rail
Car 54, Where Are You?
New Paint for #313
The End is Near for #22

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

In 1989, the Green Bay and Western bought out the Lake Superior and Ishpeming's fleet of six RSD-15s as well as the railroad's entire stock of Alco parts and tools (the Alco RS-27 was the four-axle equivalent of the RSD-15 and shared many parts).  These engines were the only six-axle diesels ever owned by the Green Bay Route.

It is a common belief that the GB&W intended to cannibalize these locos for parts to keep their own fleet of Alco locomotives going strong - but the G B W repaint on the sides of the long hood of the RSD-15s makes a person believe that at least some of the six engines were destined for revenue service.  Rumors have them operating east to Kewaunee, but there doesn't seem to be any photo evidence of them going any further than the Wisconsin Central interchange at McDonald Yard, a few miles north of Norwood Yard, while on the GB&W..

The engines soon wound up with sister railroad Fox Valley & Western instead as as extra power for Green Bay to Milwaukee trains.  A few trips proved that the locomotives were unreliable in regular service and they soon went to the Wisconsin Central's North Green Bay roundhouse (former C&NW) where they were scrapped in the mid-1990s.



Paul Hunnel photo, collection of Bob Schoneman June 21, 1992.

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