This photo and caption appeared in the June 18, 1979 Green Bay Press-Gazette.  The caption says:

Jim Gingle, switch foreman for the Green Bay & Western Railroad, rides one of 450 boxcars being delivered to the railroad during a two-month period. The GB&W is buying 1,650 cars over a two-year period at $40,000 a car, with 450 to be delivered by mid-July. Turnaround time for the cars will be about 25 days. They were built by American Car & Foundry, St. Louis, and FMC, Portland.

Francis "Jim" Gingle worked out of the Green Bay yard for 42 years, 1946-1988.  He often was on the 7 AM switch job no. 4, which worked the east side of Green Bay, including the "cheese house" district.

Itel Corporation  purchased the GB&W in November, 1978.  They took advantage of the "per diem" boxcar craze of the 1970s which allowed railroads to charge other railroads a high daily freight car rental fee, and immediately began a program of adding boxcars to the GBW fleet.  This particular car appears to be one of the GBW 7050-7199 cars built 6/79 by AC&F.

Thanks goes to Colleen Baran, daughter of Jim Gingle, for sharing this article.

• Related material:
  Lease documents for 1,650 GBW boxcars from the US Surface Transportation Board.