Added August 2015:
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O-27
Boxcar (O)
Menards is producing their O gauge 40' boxcar in a Green
Bay & Western lettering scheme.
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Added July 2015:
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40'
Wood Reefer (HO)
Athearn is producing their HO 40' wood reefer in a
Western Refrigerator Lines paint scheme in three road numbers. The
ready-to-run model in Athearn's Roundhouse line.
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WRX
Reefer Decals (O)
Protocraft has two decal sets for O scale Western
Refrigerator Lines wood refrigerator cars. One set is for reefers in the
1929-1950s as-delivered scheme, and another set is for reefers in the
1940s-1960s scheme.
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Added June 2015:
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Embroidered
jackets
Daylight Sales has jackets with an embroidered Green Bay
Route logo on the front. They are available either mid-weight or 3-in-1
with a zip out lining and removable hood, sizes adult small through 6XL.
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GB&LP
Headquarters
The headquarters of the Green Bay & Lake Pepin
Railroad still stands in Green Bay today.
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Added May 2015:
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40'
PS-1 boxcar with 6' door (N)
Atlas is producing its 40' PS-1 boxcar in a GBW paint
scheme with two road numbers.
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50'
yellow boxcar (N)
Atlas is producing a 50' boxcar in a yellow GBW paint
scheme with two road numbers.
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Added March 2015:
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GBW
917 (1978.10.14)
GBW #900-949 were the first yellow boxcars on the
railroad.
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KGB
X190 (ca. 1945)
Steam locomotive #351, Jordan Spreader X-190 and a couple
of freight cars were involved in a derailment in Sawyer, Wisconsin in
the mid-1940s.
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Chiseled-Side' Hopper (HO)
Resin Car Works will be producing a HO scale resin kit
for a 'chiseled side' twin hopper, an exact match for KGB/GBW #401-420.
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DVD:
Midwest Regionals in the 1980s and 1990s (2014)
GB&W yard switching, road trains and even a ride on
the City of Midland 41 rail and car ferry across Lake Michigan are
featured.
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Added January 2015:
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1960s PS-1 boxcar (HO)
Kadee is rerunning their ready-to-run HO scale
Pullman-Standard PS-1 40' boxcar in a 1967 GB&W paint scheme.
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La
Crosse Map (1905)
Dick Johnson, a rail historian in La Crosse, shared this
map and info on the Green Bay & Western RR in La Crosse.
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Caboose
#608 (1969.06.06)
GBW #608 at Green Bay, June 6, 1969. This is the last
known photo of this caboose.
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For a list of what was new,
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