词条 | Green Bay and Western Railroad |
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| railroad_name=Green Bay and Western Railroad | logo_filename=Green bay route logo.png | logo_size=100 | image=GBW 2407 at IRM.jpg | image_caption=GBW #2407 at the Illinois Railway Museum | gauge = {{track gauge|ussg|allk=on}} | old_gauge= | marks=GBW | locale=Wisconsin | start_year=1896 | end_year=1993 | successor_line=Wisconsin Central Ltd. | hq_city=Green Bay, Wisconsin }} The Green Bay and Western Railroad {{Reporting mark|GBW}} served central Wisconsin for almost 100 years before it was absorbed into the Wisconsin Central in 1993. For much of its history the railroad was also known as the Green Bay Route. At the end of 1970 it operated 255 miles of road on 322 miles of track; that year it reported 317 million ton-miles of revenue freight. HistoryThe Green Bay and Western Railroad was formed in 1896 from the bankruptcy proceedings of the Green Bay, Winona & St Paul and the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western. The existing route, originally built by the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad, linking Green Bay, Wisconsin, and East Winona, Wisconsin, formed the bulk of the new railroad. The Green Bay and Western acquired on August 1, 1906 a majority of shares/interest in the Ahnapee and Western Railway. The GBW established in 1929 the Western Refrigerator Line Company (WRX) to operate a 500-car fleet of reefers. Passenger traffic ceased in April 1949. The Line had carried 50 000 passengers yearly in the 1870s, 310 000 in 1915 but only 1000 in 1947 having reverted to mixed trains. The Green Bay and Western sold off the Ahnapee and Western Railway to Vernon M. Bushman and a group of private investors on May 31, 1947. The Itel Corporation purchased the Green Bay & Western in 1978. The Green Bay & Western and the Fox River Valley Railroad were merged into a new Wisconsin Central subsidiary, the Fox Valley and Western Railroad August 27, 1993. Wisconsin Central was, in turn, purchased by Canadian National railway in 2001. Main line
Branch lines
Lake Michigan ferry connectionsThe GBW prospered from 1892 when a train ferry was introduced across Lake Michigan from Kewaunee eliminating transhipment and bypassing the congested Chicago area. Ferries ran to Frankfort, Michigan, operated by the Ann Arbor Railroad and Ludington, Michigan, operated by the Chesapeake & Ohio. Frankfort services ended around 1980 and those to Ludington in 1990.[1] See also{{Portal|Railways}}
References1. ^1 {{cite web| url=http://www.greenbayroute.com/| title=Home| website=Green Bay & Western Lines}} {{commons category}}{{Former Class I}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Green Bay Western Railroad}}2. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississippi/pagesA/umissAR09.html| title=Winona Bridge Railway| website=John A. Weeks III}} 3. ^{{cite journal |title=The Green Bay Route |last1=Specht |first1=Ray |last2=Specht |first2=Ellen |last3=Cutlip |first3=Scott M. |last4=Fisher |first4=Charles E. |journal=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin |volume=115 |date=October 1966 |jstor=43518194}} 9 : Defunct Wisconsin railroads|Former Class I railroads in the United States|Predecessors of the Canadian National Railway|Railway companies established in 1896|Railway companies disestablished in 1993|Transportation in Green Bay, Wisconsin|Defunct Minnesota railroads|1896 establishments in Wisconsin|1993 disestablishments in Wisconsin |
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