Car #22 nears the end of its life at Cassville, Wisconsin.
Green Bay & Western mail/baggage car #22 was stripped to the underframe in 2011. Jim Kowald took these photos in the summer of 2014 and reports that it will soon be scrapped.
This car was built by F.M. Hicks in 1904 as first-class coach GB&W #51. In 1929-30 it received a trussed steel underframe manufactured by Commonwealth Steel Co. and was converted to a mail-baggage car (GB&W #22). The car was placed into non-revenue work train service as a paint supply car (GB&W #X22) in 1948 when the railroad ended passenger train service. In 1970 the railroad donated the car to the Wisconsin Historical Society for display at Stonefield Village in Cassville, Wis. where it has since remained.
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 Red paint chips still remain from X22's MOW days. |
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 The journal lubrication date probably indicates the day the car left the GB&W for Stonefield Village. |
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 Stenciled #22 on interior above doorway. |
 Interior paint color by a door knob hole that was not faded because it had been covered by a door pull. |
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 Museum�s photo of what the car looked like before they started scrapping. |
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