Consolidation #302 near the end of its career on the Green Bay Route.
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In 1937 the Green Bay Route modernized with its class D-47 Mikados and the three Consolidations were soon retired. GBW #302 took its last trip from Wisconsin Rapids to Green Bay on July 9, 1939.
This photo is undated, but the bolted-on GB&W herald on the tenders seems to indicate that it was taken after the first D-47 locos arrived, perhaps 1939. In the early years, the locos were the first to carry the "East West Short Route" slogan.
More info:
- #302 Builders Plate (1913)
Built July 1913 by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, N.Y. - #302 in the "Dead Line"
(1939)
2-8-0 #302 awaits its fate with the scrapper's torch. - Builder's
Plates: a locomotive's birth certificate
from Trains.com.
Photographer unknown.
