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Green Bay and Western Railroad: Map, Rosters, History

Last revised: October 22, 2026

By: Adam Burns

The Green Bay & Western Railroad was the Green Bay Route, reporting mark GBW, from the Lake Michigan port of Kewaunee through Green Bay and the paper mills at Wisconsin Rapids to Winona, Minnesota. The company was chartered in 1866 as the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railway. The Green Bay & Western name dates from 1896. For most of its life the eastern connection was a car-ferry crossing of Lake Michigan, worked with the Ann Arbor and the Pere Marquette, later the Chesapeake & Ohio. Fox Valley & Western, a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Central, took the rail assets in August 1993. The agreements were signed at 9:38 p.m. on August 27. The railroad shut down at 5:55 a.m. the next morning.

Stan Mailer’s Green Bay & Western (Hundman Publishing, 1989) is the source for the locomotive lists below. The Green Bay & Western steam list for 1896–1950 is 49 locomotives, each frame once. The diesel list is 32 owned locomotives, every one of them an Alco. Predecessor and subsidiary rosters are printed with their own counts. An engine that moved from one of those lists onto another is the same locomotive.

Green Bay & Western C424 313, RS11 309, and RS27 317 have just left Norwood Yard and are rolling through Howard, Wisconsin, on May 19, 1979. Doug Kroll photograph.

On this page: Green Bay & Lake Pepin · Kewaunee and the ferries · Ahnapee & Western · Winona & South-Western · Iola and Waupaca · At a glance · Passengers · Homer McGee · Diesels · Steam · August 1993

Green Bay & Lake Pepin

The Green Bay & Western Historical Society describes a railroad chartered in 1866, when a line from the bay to the Mississippi still looked like a way across Wisconsin. The earliest company was the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railway, incorporated on April 12, 1866. Stan Mailer’s history of the road puts the formal start of construction at Fort Howard on the afternoon of July 29, 1869, with the mayors of Green Bay and Fort Howard on hand. The first train left for New London, nearly 40 miles west, on December 26, 1871. Two Grant 4-4-0s had arrived on December 2, named Samuel Marsh and Joseph H. Scranton.

Rails reached Grand Rapids, on the Wisconsin River, on November 7, 1872, and trains entered Merrillan on January 1, 1873, to meet the West Wisconsin, a future piece of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and later of the Chicago & North Western. The Panic of 1873 stopped the work. The company was reorganized as the Green Bay & Minnesota. Winona took the Mississippi connection. Service opened to Marshland, and the Green Bay & Minnesota used the La Crosse, Trempealeau & Prescott bridge into Winona. That town was also an interchange with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the railroad that became the Milwaukee Road.

The Green Bay & Western Railroad logo. Author’s work.

A La Crosse extension opened on September 25, 1876. The Green Bay & Minnesota owned 6 miles, from Onalaska to La Crosse, and reached the rest of the way, 23 miles, on Chicago & North Western trackage rights. The company failed again on April 3, 1879. John I. Blair bought it on January 20, 1881, for $2 million, and the name became the Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul. Blair’s ties ran to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. The Lackawanna wanted a “Great Through Route” from New York to Omaha, using the Ann Arbor and Pere Marquette ferries and this Wisconsin line. The Twin Cities extension stayed on paper. What did get built in these years was small: a 2.23-mile spur from Wisconsin Rapids to Biron, and the Green Bay, Stevens Point & Northern, formed in 1881, which opened about 5 miles from Plover to Stevens Point that November and brought in wood products. Another receivership began on March 23, 1885.

The foreclosure sale came on May 12, 1896. The Green Bay & Western Railroad started on June 10, 1896, and kept that name until the end. The historical society remembers the early road as a lightweight line, most of its engines 4-4-0s, riding on 56-pound rail, and nicknamed the “Grab Baggage & Walk.” The same account says the property was drained by derailments, roundhouse fires, and floods before the car ferries and a Ford plant in St. Paul gave it overhead freight.

Kewaunee and the ferries

The Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western was organized on March 12, 1890, and reached Lake Michigan at Kewaunee on October 21, 1891, nearly 37 miles east of Green Bay. William Cargill, building the grain business that still carries his name, wanted a route that did not depend on James J. Hill’s St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba. Slips at Kewaunee took car ferries. The historical society dates that Lake Michigan service from 1892 to 1990, Ann Arbor boats to Frankfort and Pere Marquette, later Chesapeake & Ohio, boats to Ludington. In the 1950s the society’s account puts hundreds of freight cars across the lake in a day. The Kewaunee company stayed separate until June 1, 1969.

Green Bay & Western FA-1 502, built for the subsidiary Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western, and RS27 310 at Wisconsin Rapids in January 1964. The FA-1 was scrapped in February 1965. Rick Burn photograph.

On October 8, 1970, the Chesapeake & Ohio asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to drop the Ludington–Kewaunee boats. The Ann Arbor filed a similar request. The Commission refused both, on the harm the loss would do to the Green Bay & Western. After the Ann Arbor’s bankruptcy, Michigan Interstate Railway ran the Frankfort boats with a state subsidy from 1977. Those ferries stopped after April 5, 1982. The Ludington service passed to the Michigan-Wisconsin Transportation Company and, through much of the 1980s, moved one carfloat a day. The historical society closes the ferry era in 1990.

Ahnapee & Western

Edward Decker wanted a railroad from Green Bay to Sturgeon Bay. The Ahnapee & Western was incorporated on August 18, 1890, built south from Sturgeon Bay through Ahnapee (later Algoma), and met the Kewaunee line at Casco Junction. The line opened on July 23, 1894, after the swing bridge at Sturgeon Bay was finished. Cherries, hay, peas, grain, passengers, and less-than-carload freight were the business. The historical society says the Ahnapee & Western was twice on its own and twice part of the Green Bay & Western. Mailer’s locomotive roster dates one separation precisely: engines sold with the railroad to a new company on June 1, 1947.

Steam on that independent road ended with two General Electric 70-tonners, Nos. 600 and 601, built in December 1952 and January 1953. The Sturgeon Bay bridge was embargoed on August 8, 1968, and the line north of Algoma was abandoned. Itel later held the remaining 13.75 miles. The last train left Algoma on March 25, 1986. An abandonment filing followed on May 27. The grade is now the Ahnapee State Trail. The two 70-tonners, and the steam engines that stayed with the Ahnapee road, are on Mailer’s Ahnapee roster below. Consolidation 74 on that list, Alco 53790, was built in July 1913 for the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis as No. 70. Sold on October 4, 1937, it became Escanaba & Lake Superior 18.

Winona & South-Western

West of Winona the Lackawanna plan took the shape of the Winona & South-Western. The Winona, Osage & South-Western was formed in May 1890 so the line could be built under Iowa law. Service reached Osage, Iowa, on August 7, 1891, by way of St. Charles and an interchange at McIntire with the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, a predecessor of the Chicago Great Western. Surveys had pointed on toward Fort Dodge, Sioux City, and Omaha. The Mason City & Fort Dodge and the Sioux City & Northern were not for sale. The Panic of 1893 ended the scheme, and in 1895 the Winona & South-Western was sold to the Chicago Great Western. Mailer’s eight-engine roster went with it. Those locomotives are not Green Bay & Western frames.

Winona itself got its own bridge company. The Winona Bridge Railway was incorporated on July 14, 1890, a joint venture of the Winona & South-Western and the Chicago, Burlington & Northern, a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy subsidiary, and opened on July 4, 1891. The Burlington’s Chicago–Twin Cities line had reached the river in the summer of 1886.

An official, 1969 system map of the Green Bay & Western Railroad. Author’s collection.

Iola and Waupaca

The Iola & Northern ran from Scandinavia to Iola. Potatoes, flour, wood, and merchandise were the freight. An old hope of reaching the Soo Line farther north was never built. The Green Bay & Western had controlled the branch for years and bought it on December 28, 1914. Both of its engines were already Green Bay family locomotives. Mailer marks No. 1 as probably Moses Taylor, the 1872 Grant that had been No. 4, and No. 2 as Danforth 1003, which ended as Green Bay & Western 7.

Waupaca already had the Wisconsin Central, by then in the Soo family, and wanted another railroad. The Waupaca-Green Bay Railway was incorporated on January 8, 1907, without Green Bay & Western money, and opened 9.8 miles north to the main line on January 15. Potato traffic could not carry it. After a receivership the Green Bay & Western bought it at foreclosure on December 15, 1921. The Waupaca branch was abandoned in 1947. Its two engines are Dickson 231, the old Mississippi, and Schenectady 2027, which became the second Green Bay & Western No. 8 in January 1922.

At a glance

Passengers

Mixed-train service followed the December 1871 opening to New London, and through service to the Mississippi followed the completion of the line, with regular trains in January 1874. The business was never a large part of the revenue. The railroad ran extras for county fairs and excursions, and for a short time after the Ahnapee & Western opened a traveler could take a Pullman from Chicago to Sturgeon Bay. Even in the Second World War, passenger revenue was about $8,000 a year. Dedicated passenger trains ended in the spring of 1944. Mixed trains lasted until the last run, on April 14, 1949. A March 1940 timetable is on its own page.

Homer McGee

The historical society credits Frank B. Seymour with keeping the railroad alive through the Depression, and Homer E. McGee, a former Katy officer, with the rebuilding that followed. McGee became president in 1934. His son, Weldon McGee, succeeded him in 1962 and kept the same cautious bookkeeping. A September 1942 Trains article, “Brief On The Green Bay Route,” described the change in the traffic. Until 1920, 71 percent of the freight began and ended on the line. By the Second World War that share was under 20 percent. The railroad had become a bridge route, Kewaunee to the Winona interchange, carrying auto parts, milk, perishables, wood, coal, and merchandise.

Green Bay & Western RS3 307 at work in Wisconsin Rapids in January 1964. Rick Burn photograph.

The first diesel was an Alco switcher in 1938. Road freight units waited for the FA-1s of 1947 and 1949, and then the RS-2s of February 1950. The historical society says the railroad dieselized in 1950, often paying cash. Mailer’s dates are more particular. Kewaunee Mikado 403 made its last trip on March 9, 1950. Consolidation 69, renumbered 351 in 1937, was sold to the Ahnapee & Western on November 15, 1950, and Mailer’s Ahnapee line keeps it in service there into February 1953. The red paint of the diesel years carried a wide gray stripe and black pinstripes, later simplified to a red dip with white lettering and numbers.

Green Bay & Western RS3 307, one of four the railroad owned, at the yard in Wisconsin Rapids in April 1965. Rick Burn photograph.

Weldon McGee eventually decided the railroad belonged in a larger system. In 1976 the Burlington Northern tried to buy it. The Chicago & North Western, the Milwaukee Road, and the Soo Line opposed the sale, and the Interstate Commerce Commission rejected it. Itel, which owned other railroads and a large freight-car fleet, bought the Green Bay & Western. Paper traffic kept the property attractive. The historical society’s portrait of the late railroad is a line with no power switches, signals only where it crossed another railroad, and Alcos still hauling intermodal trains with a caboose on the rear.

Green Bay & Western RS3 305 and RS2 304 at Wisconsin Rapids on August 23, 1966. Marty Bernard photograph.

Green Bay & Western RS2 304 in local service at Whiting, Wisconsin, on April 23, 1974. American-Rails.com collection.

Diesels

The historical society’s sentence is the right one for the owned fleet: every diesel the Green Bay & Western owned was an Alco, from the 1938 switcher to the 16-unit fleet at the 1993 sale. Mailer’s roster is the table. Horsepower is the as-built figure, with the later figure after the slash when the book prints both. A line marked “in service” means the locomotive was still on the roster when the 1989 book was published. Sixteen lines read that way, the same count as the society’s closing fleet. Those Alcos were dispersed to other short lines after the sale. The two leased locomotives at the bottom are on Mailer’s roster and are outside the 32. The Ahnapee & Western’s General Electric 70-tonners are on that road’s own list.

RS-11 309 is one locomotive, lettered for the Kewaunee subsidiary. FA-1 506, serial 73681, was built in December 1947 as 503 and was renumbered 506 in April 1949, when a new 503, serial 76836, arrived. The five FA-1s are 501, 502, 503, 506, and 507. Order number S-1800 on the 1938 switcher is from the Alco high-hood builder list. The other order numbers are the ones Mailer prints beside the serial.

Green Bay & Western RS11 309, the only one the railroad owned, on the turntable at Norwood Yard in September 1963. Roger Puta photograph.

Green Bay & Western RS27 317 at the engine terminal in Wisconsin Rapids on April 28, 1974. American-Rails.com collection.

Green Bay & Western C424s 312 and 314 at Wisconsin Rapids on April 24, 1974. American-Rails.com collection.

Green Bay & Western C424 312 and RS27 316 at Wisconsin Rapids, about 1969. The Green Bay Route’s owned diesel fleet was Alco. Photographer unknown.

Green Bay & Western C424 313, RS27 316, and other power at Wisconsin Rapids on October 4, 1973. Author’s collection.

Steam

Mailer prints a separate roster for each company. Inside a roster, a renumber is one row. A Green Bay rebuild of an 1870s engine, the lines Mailer credits to GB&W/Raidler, is the same frame as the named locomotive on the earlier list. Kewaunee 45 and Ahnapee 261 are Alco-Brooks 64128. Green Bay & Western 65, later 399, is Alco-Brooks 64127. Kewaunee 49, later 350, is Alco-Schenectady 67819 and went to Consolidated Papers at Wisconsin Rapids. Green Bay & Western 69, later 351, is Alco-Schenectady 67820 and went to the Ahnapee & Western. The 2-6-0 that the Green Bay & Western numbered 261 is Baldwin 17125, a former Chicago & Alton engine. The six class D-47 Mikados are 401 and 402, Kewaunee 403, and 404, 405, and 406.

Green Bay & Minnesota and Green Bay, Winona & St. Paul, through 1896

Mailer’s note on this roster says it includes every locomotive on the property through 1896. Nos. 16 and 13 are Danforth 1003, one engine. The count is 24.

Green Bay & Western, 1896–1950

This is the company roster after the reorganization. Renumbers share a row. The Americans of 1891–1898, Nos. 20–26, are class D, with 17×24-inch cylinders and 63-inch drivers. The count is 49.

Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western

No. 35 is the 1906 rebuild of No. 1, so it stays on that row. Mikado 403 is the locomotive between Green Bay & Western 402 and 404. The count is 13.

Iola & Northern

Two locomotives, both already on the Green Bay family lists.

Waupaca-Green Bay

Winona & South-Western

Eight locomotives. They passed to the Chicago Great Western with the railroad in the 1890s. The count is 8.

Ettrick & Northern

Mailer prints this roster with the other short lines in the Green Bay book. One steam locomotive and one gas-mechanical. The count is 2.

Ahnapee & Western locomotives

Nos. 261 and 351 are Kewaunee 45 and Green Bay & Western 69. They are counted here because they ran for the Ahnapee road, and they are the same frames already counted on those lists. The two General Electric units are on their own diesel table, separate from the 32 Green Bay & Western Alcos. Steam on this list is 9. Diesels are 2.

August 1993

The sale had been waiting since 1992. On October 21 of that year the Chicago Tribune reported that Wisconsin Central Transportation wanted its Fox Valley & Western unit to buy the Green Bay & Western and the Fox River Valley from Itel Rail. On January 3, 1993, the same paper reported that the Interstate Commerce Commission had stayed the transfer. Rail labor said the buyer had not made the employee-protection agreements, and the Itel contract had called for a closing by December 31. The Mid-Continent Railway Gazette for August 1993 says the railroad had not expected to be running that year. Implementing agreements with six unions were still open, and the last decision arrived about 1 p.m. on August 27.

That Friday the last freight left Green Bay at 9:05 p.m. with caboose 115. At 9:38 p.m. in Chicago the agreements were signed. The seller was Itel. The buyer of the Green Bay & Western assets, and of Itel’s Fox River Valley, was Fox Valley & Western, a Wisconsin Central Ltd. subsidiary. Train No. 1, extra 311 west, which usually ran through to East Winona, reached Wisconsin Rapids at 5 a.m. on August 28 with 49 loads and 12 empties. The crew, Bob Vander Leest, Ken Johnson, and Mike Ostertag, split the train, left four units at the engine house, and took a cab back to Green Bay. The railroad shut down at 5:55 a.m. Fox Valley & Western resumed service on Saturday morning. Of 137 hourly employees on the summer 1993 payroll, 45 had a father, a son, or a brother also working for the railroad.

The Green Bay Route account of that morning puts the Wisconsin Central takeover at 12:01 a.m. on August 28 and names 311, 319, and 323 on the final Train No. 1, annulled at Wisconsin Rapids. The historical society dates the purchase by Wisconsin Central Limited to August 28, 1993, and says the remaining Alcos were dispersed to other short lines. The Chicago Tribune of August 31 reported that Wisconsin Central had bought the two railroads from Itel Rail Corporation of Chicago in a $62 million deal and had offered jobs to 280 of the 373 affected workers.

The Seventh Circuit’s later opinion in the labor-protection case describes what changed hands. Fox Valley & Western acquired the rail assets of the Fox River Valley Railroad, about 200 miles, and of the Green Bay and Western, about 250 miles. It bought assets, and the old corporations survived as shells. The historical society says about two-thirds of the Green Bay & Western main line remains in service on the Canadian National. The same August 1993 Gazette records two drawings that were never built: a 1936 Alco proposal for a streamlined 4-4-2, and a 1935 proposal for a lightweight train.

Related reading

• Wisconsin Central · Chicago & North Western · Milwaukee Road · Soo Line
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy · Chicago Great Western · Delaware, Lackawanna & Western · Pere Marquette
• Escanaba & Lake Superior · Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis · March 1940 timetable
• Steam locomotives · Diesel locomotives · Wisconsin railroads · Minnesota railroads
• Fallen Flags

Sources

• Stan Mailer, Green Bay & Western (Hundman Publishing, 1989). Locomotive rosters: the predecessor roads through 1896 and the Green Bay & Western list for 1896–1950, pp. 336–337; Iola & Northern, Waupaca-Green Bay, Winona & South-Western, and Ettrick & Northern, p. 329; the Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western roster and the Ahnapee & Western roster; diesel roster, pp. 340–341. Works numbers, order numbers printed on those pages, renumbers, and dispositions
• Green Bay & Western Historical Society, “About the GBW.” The 248 miles of main line, the 1892–1990 car ferries, Homer McGee in 1934 and Weldon McGee in 1962, the 1976 Burlington Northern bid, the Itel purchase, the August 28, 1993 sale to Wisconsin Central Limited, the 16-unit diesel fleet, and the share of the main line still in Canadian National service
• Mid-Continent Railway Gazette, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 1993, “GB&W Leaves Rich Railroad Heritage.” The last train, caboose 115, the 9:38 p.m. signing on August 27, extra 311 west, the 5 a.m. arrival and 5:55 a.m. shutdown on August 28, the 49 loads and 12 empties, and the 137 hourly employees
• Mark Mathu, “The End…,” greenbayroute.com. The 12:01 a.m. takeover on August 28, 1993, and locomotives 311, 319, and 323 on the final Train No. 1
• Fox Valley & Western Ltd. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 15 F.3d 641 (7th Cir. 1994). Green Bay and Western, 250 miles of track. Fox River Valley, 200 miles. Fox Valley & Western acquired the rail assets. The selling corporations survived as shells
• Chicago Tribune, October 21, 1992, and January 3, 1993. The proposed Fox Valley & Western purchase from Itel, and the Commission’s stay of a transfer that the Itel contract had set for December 31
• Chicago Tribune, August 31, 1993. Wisconsin Central’s purchase of the Green Bay & Western and the Fox River Valley from Itel Rail Corporation, the $62 million figure, and job offers to 280 of 373 workers
• “Brief On The Green Bay Route,” Trains, September 1942. The change from 71 percent local freight to a bridge route with less than 20 percent of its freight beginning and ending on the line
• Alco HH600, HH660, HH900, and HH1000 original-owner list. Green Bay & Western 101, builder number 69085, order S-1800, October 1938

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