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	Type	Marks	No.	Location	Notes
01	,				Stripped down to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current state of this car.
02	caboose, steel	GBW	113	Rock K Ranch 2372 Day Street (state highway 96), Greenleaf, Wis.	Initially set up in the owner's front yard and may still be there, but the owner's son reports that his plan was to move it into the woods to use as a cabin.
03	caboose, steel	GBW	617	Portage County Historical Society Portage, Wis.	Located in Heritage Park in Plover, Wis. right next to the old GBW mainline and in front of the Bancroft depot that has been restored by the Central Wisconsin Model Railroaders.
04	caboose, wood	AW	33	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	Ex-Great Northern caboose purchased by GB&W in 1924. Bay windows added in the late 1930s and it renumbered #33 after the Ahnapee & Western became independent of the GB&W in 1947. The caboose was retired in the early 1970s when the A&W began contracting with the GB&W to provide train service.
05	caboose, wood	GBW	603	Private Owner	The body serves as part of a private residence in Lakewood, Wis. It is used as a kitchen, dinning area and office.
06	caboose, wood	GBW	605	Private Owner	To Copper Range RR ca. 1966. Sold to a private owner in 1972. On display near Big Bay, Mich.
07	diesel, Alco C-420	GBW	323	Private Owner	Stored at Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, North Judson, Ind.
08	diesel, Alco C-424	GBW	322	Reading Company Technical and Historical Society Leesport, Penn.	Ex-Reading #5204, Conrail #2493, purchased by GB&W in March 1980. Sold to the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society in 1994. Renumbered to the original Reading loco number but still in GB&W paint. It is often leased to a small shortline near Reading Penn. and used in revenue service. The RCTHS plans to restore it to its original as delivered paint when time and money permits.
09	diesel, Alco C-430	GBW	315	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	Built in 1968, #315 was the last new locomotive acquired by the Green Bay Route, and the last of only 16 C-430's built. A bearing failure caused the engine to be donated to the NRM in 1987.
10	diesel, Alco RS-20	GBW	305	Gopher State Railway Museum New Prague, Minn.	#305 was one of two Alco RS-3s bought new in May 1951. It was rebuilt with a chopped nose and a 2000 HP engine in June 1976. Leased to Badger Mining by August 1994 and the GSRM acquired the engine in 1996. They currently lease the unit to CF Industries in Rosemount, Minn. While the museum prepares to open to the public.
11	diesel, Alco RSD-15	GBW	2407	Illinois Railway Museum Union, Ill.	Built in 1959 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe #9841 (later #841), it was one of six sold to the Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I #2402) in 1975. All six engines were purchased by the GB&W in November 1989, mainly as a parts supply. Donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1996. It carries an interesting 'hybrid' LS&I/GB&W paint scheme. An interesting anecdote: while en route to the IRM, this engine wound up getting on a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight out of Chicago and was discovered in Nebraska!
12	diesel, Alco S-3	GBW	103	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	Ex-Manistique & Lake Superior S-3 #1; if you look closely on the cab sides you can make out the 'M&LS' lettering. Later was Ann Arbor #10 after M&LS was abandoned. Although it is now displayed in GB&W paint, it was never owned by nor operated on the Green Bay Route.
13	diesel, Alco S-6	James River	1201	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	GB&W leased ex-Southern Pacific #1201 (built 1955.05 b/n #80924) from Chrome Crankshaft of Chicago on 1979.04. It was then leased to Nekoosa Edwards ca. 1979.07 but by 1981.01.24 it was back at Norwood Yard switching cars. GB&W refurbished the locomotive as James River #1201 where it went into service in Green Bay, early 1982. Purchased by the NRM in 1997 with funds from the Donnelley Foundation with some parts and tools donated by Wisconsin Central for servicing the unit. Wisconsin Public Service provided support and manpower to get #1201 into running condition.
14	diesel, Westinghouse 'Visibility Cab' switcher	ARMCo	B-71	Minnesota Transportation Museum St. Paul, Minn.	Briefly served on the Algoma RR tourist line which operated on the Ahnapee & Western tracks in the 1970s.
15	freight car, steel hopper	KGB	4567	Mid-Continent Railway Museum North Freedom, Wis.	Acquired via the Wisconsin Power & Light Lakeside Plant. Unrestored and unlettered.
16	freight car, wood boxcar	GBW	6158	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	Stored outside at museum; faded GBW lettering can still be seen on car sides.
17	freight car, wood boxcar	GBW	8020	Mid-Continent Railway Museum North Freedom, Wis.	Built in 1925 by General American Car Company. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1964; acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It is used for the storage of locomotive parts.
18	freight car, wood coach	AW	84	Private Owner	Serves as one wall of a structure at a quarry just northeast of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The body isn't in terrible shape but the trucks and most of the running gear are gone. Located on North Duluth Avenue just north of County Highway C. It is on the left just after the curve in the road. To gain access to the building go up the very steep driveway just past north of the quarry entrance. There is a house up there, and they own the shed that the car is in.
19	other, builder's plate	GBM	??	New London Historical Society 900 Montgomery Street, New London, Wis.	Builders plate from an early steam loco.
20	other, steam whistle	GBW	23	Private Owner	Steam whistle from the last 4-4-0 in service on the GB&W.
21	passenger car, business car	GBW	600	Private Owner	Built by ACF in 1918 as a private car for oil millionaire Joshua Cosden. Used as housing on the Morris Run Coal Company by 1937; purchased and restored by GB&W in 1944. Retired in 1971 and sold to private owners. Currently owned by Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway.
22	passenger car, mail express	KGB	76	Private Owner	Ron Marquart owns this car, along with C&NW caboose #10341. The car is used as a machine shop. On display at state highway 113, south of Baraboo, Wis.
23	passenger car, mail/baggage express	GBW	20	Private Owner	Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #20 in 1930. Moved to Marion, Wis. in 2014 and is on display at the depot located on E Ramsdell St.
24	passenger car, mail/baggage express	GBW	21	National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wis.	Originally GB&W coach #52, buil 1906. Rebuilt as mail/baggage express #21 in 1930. The car is now in an unusual white with yellow & black trim color scheme, not sure if it ever had these colors on the GB&W.
25	passenger car, mail/baggage express	GBW	22	Stonefield Village Cassville, Wis.	Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #22 in 1930. Stripped to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current status of this car.
26	passenger car, mail/baggage express	KGB	77	Mid-Continent Railway Museum North Freedom, Wis.	uilt in March 1909 by Hicks Locomotive and Car Works of Chicago Heights, Ill. Renumbered to GB&W #23 in 1930, then KGB&W #76 at an unknown date, and eventually GB&W #X-76 in 1948 and used for work service. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist railroad in 1964, and acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It serves as a work shop and tool and material storage for steam locomotive LS&I #22.
27	passenger car, wood coach	GBW	109	Illinois Railway Museum Union, Ill.	Built by ACF about 1918. Steel bay windows installed in 1947 for use as a caboose-passenger car on mixed trains. One of the final coaches to provide passenger service when the GB&W abandoned passenger operations in 1949. It was sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?).
28	steam, Alco 2-8-0	KGB	49	Mid-Continent Railway Museum North Freedom, Wis.	Built as KGB&W #49 in 1929 and renumbered to #350 in November 1936. When the GB&W converted to diesels it was sold to Consolidated Papers in 1950 and worked in their Wisconsin Rapids paper mill. Donated to the city of Wisconsin Rapids in 1957 and displayed in a public park until 1981 when it was donated to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. The locomotive has been restored to her pre-1936 appearance. It is the only preserved Green Bay Route steam engine.

Type

Marks

No.

Location

Notes

Stripped down to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current state of this car.

caboose,
steel

GBW

113

Rock K Ranch
2372 Day Street (state highway 96), Greenleaf, Wis.

Initially set up in the owner's front yard and may still be there, but the owner's son reports that his plan was to move it into the woods to use as a cabin.

caboose,
steel

GBW

617

Portage County Historical Society
Portage, Wis.

Located in Heritage Park in Plover, Wis. right next to the old GBW mainline and in front of the Bancroft depot that has been restored by the Central Wisconsin Model Railroaders.

caboose,
wood

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

Ex-Great Northern caboose purchased by GB&W in 1924. Bay windows added in the late 1930s and it renumbered #33 after the Ahnapee & Western became independent of the GB&W in 1947. The caboose was retired in the early 1970s when the A&W began contracting with the GB&W to provide train service.

caboose,
wood

GBW

603

Private Owner

The body serves as part of a private residence in Lakewood, Wis. It is used as a kitchen, dinning area and office.

caboose,
wood

GBW

605

Private Owner

To Copper Range RR ca. 1966. Sold to a private owner in 1972. On display near Big Bay, Mich.

diesel,
Alco C-420

GBW

323

Private Owner

Stored at Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, North Judson, Ind.

diesel,
Alco C-424

GBW

322

Reading Company Technical and Historical Society
Leesport, Penn.

Ex-Reading #5204, Conrail #2493, purchased by GB&W in March 1980. Sold to the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society in 1994. Renumbered to the original Reading loco number but still in GB&W paint. It is often leased to a small shortline near Reading Penn. and used in revenue service. The RCTHS plans to restore it to its original as delivered paint when time and money permits.

diesel,
Alco C-430

GBW

315

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

Built in 1968, #315 was the last new locomotive acquired by the Green Bay Route, and the last of only 16 C-430's built. A bearing failure caused the engine to be donated to the NRM in 1987.

diesel,
Alco RS-20

GBW

305

Gopher State Railway Museum
New Prague, Minn.

#305 was one of two Alco RS-3s bought new in May 1951. It was rebuilt with a chopped nose and a 2000 HP engine in June 1976. Leased to Badger Mining by August 1994 and the GSRM acquired the engine in 1996. They currently lease the unit to CF Industries in Rosemount, Minn. While the museum prepares to open to the public.

diesel,
Alco RSD-15

GBW

2407

Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Ill.

Built in 1959 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe #9841 (later #841), it was one of six sold to the Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I #2402) in 1975. All six engines were purchased by the GB&W in November 1989, mainly as a parts supply. Donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1996. It carries an interesting 'hybrid' LS&I/GB&W paint scheme. An interesting anecdote: while en route to the IRM, this engine wound up getting on a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight out of Chicago and was discovered in Nebraska!

diesel,
Alco S-3

GBW

103

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

Ex-Manistique & Lake Superior S-3 #1; if you look closely on the cab sides you can make out the 'M&LS' lettering. Later was Ann Arbor #10 after M&LS was abandoned. Although it is now displayed in GB&W paint, it was never owned by nor operated on the Green Bay Route.

diesel,
Alco S-6

James River

1201

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

GB&W leased ex-Southern Pacific #1201 (built 1955.05 b/n #80924) from Chrome Crankshaft of Chicago on 1979.04. It was then leased to Nekoosa Edwards ca. 1979.07 but by 1981.01.24 it was back at Norwood Yard switching cars. GB&W refurbished the locomotive as James River #1201 where it went into service in Green Bay, early 1982. Purchased by the NRM in 1997 with funds from the Donnelley Foundation with some parts and tools donated by Wisconsin Central for servicing the unit. Wisconsin Public Service provided support and manpower to get #1201 into running condition.

diesel,
Westinghouse 'Visibility Cab' switcher

ARMCo

B-71

Minnesota Transportation Museum
St. Paul, Minn.

Briefly served on the Algoma RR tourist line which operated on the Ahnapee & Western tracks in the 1970s.

freight car,
steel hopper

KGB

4567

Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.

Acquired via the Wisconsin Power & Light Lakeside Plant. Unrestored and unlettered.

freight car,
wood boxcar

GBW

6158

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

Stored outside at museum; faded GBW lettering can still be seen on car sides.

freight car,
wood boxcar

GBW

8020

Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.

Built in 1925 by General American Car Company. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR in 1964; acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It is used for the storage of locomotive parts.

freight car,
wood coach

Private Owner

Serves as one wall of a structure at a quarry just northeast of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The body isn't in terrible shape but the trucks and most of the running gear are gone. Located on North Duluth Avenue just north of County Highway C. It is on the left just after the curve in the road. To gain access to the building go up the very steep driveway just past north of the quarry entrance. There is a house up there, and they own the shed that the car is in.

other,
builder's plate

GBM

New London Historical Society
900 Montgomery Street, New London, Wis.

Builders plate from an early steam loco.

other,
steam whistle

GBW

Private Owner

Steam whistle from the last 4-4-0 in service on the GB&W.

passenger car,
business car

GBW

600

Private Owner

Built by ACF in 1918 as a private car for oil millionaire Joshua Cosden. Used as housing on the Morris Run Coal Company by 1937; purchased and restored by GB&W in 1944. Retired in 1971 and sold to private owners. Currently owned by Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway.

passenger car,
mail express

KGB

Private Owner

Ron Marquart owns this car, along with C&NW caboose #10341. The car is used as a machine shop. On display at state highway 113, south of Baraboo, Wis.

passenger car,
mail/baggage express

GBW

Private Owner

Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #20 in 1930. Moved to Marion, Wis. in 2014 and is on display at the depot located on E Ramsdell St.

passenger car,
mail/baggage express

GBW

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, Wis.

Originally GB&W coach #52, buil 1906. Rebuilt as mail/baggage express #21 in 1930. The car is now in an unusual white with yellow & black trim color scheme, not sure if it ever had these colors on the GB&W.

passenger car,
mail/baggage express

GBW

Stonefield Village
Cassville, Wis.

Originally a GB&W coach, rebuilt as mail/baggage express #22 in 1930. Stripped to the underframe in 2011, unsure of the current status of this car.

passenger car,
mail/baggage express

KGB

Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.

uilt in March 1909 by Hicks Locomotive and Car Works of Chicago Heights, Ill. Renumbered to GB&W #23 in 1930, then KGB&W #76 at an unknown date, and eventually GB&W #X-76 in 1948 and used for work service. Sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist railroad in 1964, and acquired by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 1985. It serves as a work shop and tool and material storage for steam locomotive LS&I #22.

passenger car,
wood coach

GBW

109

Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Ill.

Built by ACF about 1918. Steel bay windows installed in 1947 for use as a caboose-passenger car on mixed trains. One of the final coaches to provide passenger service when the GB&W abandoned passenger operations in 1949. It was sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain RR #110 (ca. 1960?).

steam,
Alco 2-8-0

KGB

Mid-Continent Railway Museum
North Freedom, Wis.

Built as KGB&W #49 in 1929 and renumbered to #350 in November 1936. When the GB&W converted to diesels it was sold to Consolidated Papers in 1950 and worked in their Wisconsin Rapids paper mill. Donated to the city of Wisconsin Rapids in 1957 and displayed in a public park until 1981 when it was donated to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. The locomotive has been restored to her pre-1936 appearance. It is the only preserved Green Bay Route steam engine.