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Mike's Train House

 

Main Page

Photo Departments

Amtrak
Our Nations Christmas tree travels by Rail. 
Amtrak Boxcars
Milwaukee Road
See Pictures of A derailment that happened in Sturtevant in 1984!
Milwaukee Road MP15AC, 5/20/2000
Norfolk Southern
Photos from my last trip to the Curve, 1999.
BNSF Pictures
Joliet 1999
Ill, HY 59,  5/20/2000
261,  5/20/2000
Highlands 5/20/200
Galesburg RR Days 2000 at the depot
Galesburg RR Days 2000 at  the hotel
Galesburg RR Days 2000 from the bridge
Galesburg RR Days 2000 at the park
BNSF6132
Iowa Interstate
Union Pacific
Hay every Web site has to have a page of junk, this is mine.
Elmhurst 1999
UP Dead/ Scrap Line, 5/20/2000

Wisconsin Central

Franklin Park
WC Railfanning 
WC Railfanning Part 2
W.C. Locomotive Details of Current Roster Loco's
Shops Dead and Damaged Line
Shops Part 1 
Shops Part 2
Shops Part 3
Byron Hill 1
Byron Hill 2
WC Ex Algoma Central Ore Freight Car Detail Section

Canadian Pacific Railway

Franksville
Sturtevant

CP9303 Special Edition

GBW

Jim Kube's Former GBW Site

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My SDL39, 581 photos.
My models
About myself
Links

GB&W   Documents         

Treasures That Tell Tales

                                                                                      

LEFT: Wartime passenger tariff booklet for station agents and conductors, used to determine what to charge passengers (Lower rates for soldiers!).

Both from the collection of Jim Kube.

 

BELOW: 1934 GB&W Lines Operating Rules. Used by employees of GB&W, KGB&W and A&W.

Both from the collection of Jim Kube.

 

 

ABOVE AND RIGHT: 1940's-era railroad passes. Handed out to employees, their families, and special passengers.

All three from the Jim Kube collection.

RIGHT: 1952 union-management contract. At this time GB&W was very healthy, and was well-regarded throughout the industry as a modern, progressive small railroad.

From the Jim Kube collection.

 

 

ABOVE: 1972 correspondence from GB&W president Weldon McGee to this web site's former author.

From the collection of Jim Kube.



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