Enjoyed your video. At 61 I’m now the old man on my section of the railroad.. one of the things I miss the most is sitting with the old heads and listening to their stories, the younger kids now just don’t seem to like to do that quite the same.

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This section serves as a reminder on certain aspects. Railroads do have excellent safety records but keep in mind that accidents & derailments can happened once in a while. Grade crossing accidents can be avoided as long as the driver obeys the rules & becomes aware that a train is close by. Although many of us like to be close to the action when visiting our favorite railroads, you should always be aware of dragging equipment or kink rails when going near mainline tracks & look both ways at crossings. Stop, Look, & Listen for it's safety First, Last, & Always.

I've seen some of these locomotives 318, 316, rolling by my workplace in the early 2000s for Minnesota Commercial before they tore up the tracks to the Pillsbury elevator.

You've done it once again E.E. folks. This once again is the kind of footage railfans are seeking, the DOWN-TO-EARTH SLICE-OF-LIFE side of railroads the public rarely gets to see. These folks have proven once again to be similar to the personal of WC & even Southern Pacific's California subsidiary NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC for being hard working, dedicated, & family friendly with a DOWN HOME flavor.

You knocked this way out of the park rob! Super video, i just sent Kevin caboose 118 built out if 2 wide vision and 1 mdc coupla caboose. If you still talk to him ask him to send you pics ....got a whole bunch of GBW kit cars in Cleveland ohio.

Another great video!

these videos are as much a class act as the GBW. incredible.

This is better than woke tv today ❤

Most GB&W crews were friendly as well as the clerks who would tell you if a train was out there. Mechanics who knew their business kept that Alco power alive Sadly the car ferry made its last voyage and the paper industry is a shadow of what it was and that will also affect the railroads that served them so cherish the memory

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I love your entire series on the GBW.. please keep em coming!

Could you post the full videos of these?

A little Rustoleum could be used ....

Did Frank retire from the WC? Or what became of him after this excursion? Seemed like a wonderful person to know and work with!

Thank you for correctly noting "North Fond du Lac", instead of "Fond du Lac". North Fondy born and raised. :D

The Muhammad Ali of Locomotives

Interesting, "Black beard" is a name I've not heard before for the patched MILW units. Never heard anyone refer to them as anything but Bandits.

Soo Line equipment and a wig wag…….whats not to like 👍👍

Hi. Thanks for ALL GBW videos; I knew nothing of prior, and think I started first with the suggested (by YT algorithm?) rail fan excursion followed by watching all or most of the GBW series. Fun to follow along via aerial map perspective as well parachuting down to street view (where available) to see the changes from 92-93. I say it’s fun to follow along but at the same trying not to feel bad for all involved when following along and finding present day aerial imagery of the former WC and GBW yards in Green Bay that are now just grass and dirt, or the now missing depots along the route, or tracks removed etc-the fate of so many railroads. Did most employees lateral with the merger? Did the ALCO’s make the transition too? RIP Michael Geurts. I enjoyed the employee interviews. A new rr bridge over the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Rapids was built to replace the old one as noted in one video. Is the huge paper mill on the west side of the bridge operational? It looks ginormous and sprawls north and south of that crossing but it appeared as tho just a couple of vehicles parked as per aerial imagery? Anyway, very interesting videos, many thanks, n best wishes. Cheers

8:08 Amtrak F40PH 375 is now Metra 216

This is probably 25 or 50 years ago i wasn’t alive

That sounds like the west Chicago diamond sound

Given that the Great Lakes shipping season does not go all year, did the railroad haul ore year round, and if so, where did they haul it to?? Stockpiles in Escanaba??

An MP1500 in the 8th notch.... 2:27, my wet (an engr's) dream. LOL, I ran those "old" MP1500s. I could move 9000 tons, at about 4mph. LOL I miss those days on the main line in the 8th notch. MP1500s were/are very durable..... their Achilles's heel... a hard joint causing their/its radiator hose to lose its seal. Back in the day, I'm glad I knew the roundhouse foreman...I got to plead for (and receive) forgiveness. Now a days, I don't rely on freshly painted rebuilt garbage on 4 axles.... gimme a rusty, sweaty, beat up MP1500.

Thanks for the memories. The spot between Blair and Whitehall where he pointed out and Amish family is where I grew up.

If you have any other videos of Ken Johnson, please upload them. He just passed away last year.

My grandpa Ken again. Thank you so much for uploading these!

I remember my grandpa Ken Johnson talking about Frank Fitzgerald. Thanks for uploading.

Ken Johnson is my grandpa holy cow! ❤❤❤ he just passed away in October 2023. We had a special relationship. I really love seeing this. Thank you!

I grew up watching GBW in Manawa! I remember when they asked me if I wanted to ride with them, when they were switching A. Storm & Sons plant! Wow!!! It took them awhile because they shipped may car loads every day! If I remember correctly the plant produced powered eggs! I left Wis. many years ago and was surprised to see these videos of the GBW being destroyed! I am a big rail fan and have a layout in my basement since I retired! I always wanted to be an engineer for the Union Pacific, so now I’m that engineer on my layout! Thanks for sharing these videos of Green Bay & Western

The upstart Chicago commuter rail service provider Metra was formed in 1984 before it purchased the rail line between Chicago and Rondout in 1987.

Yesterday and today mark 31 years since this took place 😢

The midwestern dialect is as strong as ever !

12 on 2 off !! Now i know why my father choose to stay on the yard board!

Eyyyy I live in Wisconsin

I remember taking the Chicago Northwestern from downtown Chicago to Wisconsin Dells, those old yellow & green passenger cars. Back in the mid 1970's.

Thanks again for posting this video on KZbin! I haven't seen this program since the early 90's when I was a young kid! Really brings back some good memories

The Packers score update over the radio was pretty funny 🤣

You simply cannot imagine the work and tireless research this team of historians had put into this legendary excursion, concluding a magnificent railroad! There are NO documentaries with this level of heart and soul for the subject, than these East End releases!

@East End Productions Archive Do you have the full unedited video ride from end to end? If so, would there be a possibility of it being released? I would love to be able to view the whole length of the railroad. I grew up in Plover and was too young when I found out about the GBW in 1990, by then it would only be a couple of years left to its existence. I did happen to see the excursion train by chance as it headed back into Plover, I would always try to watch the train at the crossing down the road from where I grew up. Didn't have internet back then, so I didn't find out about the excursion train until years later. Thank you for posting all of these videos!

Nice shot of the soo line locomotives

I remember the FRV track was awful at Tavil. Cool to see them,when I was on vacation.

Did I miss the year? Late 90s? I miss seeing freight trains on that line west of New London. It was such a neat stretch.

0:52 on the right that's an old Griswold signal that once had the rotating stop sign, didn't know the GBW ever installed any of those!

Thanks for sharing this awesome piece of railroad history, well done indeed!

1. I was surprised to see another G.L.W. car joining the consist & with WC'S president ED BURKHART coming along. 2. Now I do love WC but I feel like they should've just left the GB&W alone. Business for them was going quite strong & their fleet of alco's still have a few more years of life left to continue doing what they do best. 3. I tried my best but couldn't find the spot at Amherst JCT where WC was planning to put in the NEW connection track between the two lines. I Knew their was another why you folks hold off on releasing your WC PASSENGER EXTRAS video back then, you probably wanted scenes from 1993 that could make it twice as successful with the mainline excursion debut of MLWR #261 as one of them which is quite understandable. 4. That EX-C&NW geep was acquired by WC with their purchasing of the short lived road name FOX RIVER VALLEY "FRV" railroad. 5. Consolidated Paper is a SUPERB customer in serving both GB&W & WC. In fact business for them has gotton that huge that they encountered a million dollar expansion project at their mill in 1992. As a result, the two railroads had to reroute their mainlines through Wisconsin Rapids thus eliminating the original diamond they had that was closes to the mill.