GBW Rapids East

These pages have a variety of scenes that might help other people model the former Green Bay and Western yard east of the Wisconsin River.
Few of the pictures show the area 'perfectly', and with time and weather I might get better views.
I didn't even build this web page correctly, the pictures might be slow loading because I processed them from west to east and then show them in the other order.

Some of these pictures might show a train instead of the structures nearby, like this locomotive near the Highway 54 viaduct. There is a random-block wall and a 4 lane highway to the left and I didn't even get the 'tunnel' under the highway and don't remember if it is a rectangular or round-top opening. In the 'older days' it might have been a wood piling highway bridge.

It could be modeled as a view blocker or painted to hide a track exit to another room.
And a mile east of here is Boyne Junction (the branch line to Byron paper mill).
If you had the space or did very selective compression,
you could incorporate that junction into the corner of a room.

These two pages are for rail views from Highway 54 west to the Wisconsin River.

A view from the Highway 54 sidewalk, looking west.

The tracks run downhill on maybe a 0.5% grade toward the river.

The next picture is stitched together like a panoramic, but the pictures weren't taken with my panoramic rig.
At the time, 2007, they were just random experimental pictures. I hope to do much better in the future, but I show these now to aid modelers in their efforts.

The large gray industrial building complex used to be 'PRE-WAY', a manufacturer of appliances or stoves or similar.
There is a city park with a ball field and roofed bleachers in the pines.
And a cemetary and city park on the north side.
The picture below is the same, just larger. . . Looking southeast, south, southwest. . . . Scroll right and left.

Here's a picture of the Roundhouse, shown last month.
In 2009, there is no turntable and no tracks, but it is used by the MOW
Is this one of the three roundhouses still standing in the state of Wisconsin as of 2009?
(the others being in Stevens Point and Fon du Lac?)

West side of the roundhouse, taken in 2003.

Details of the west side of the roundhouse, 2009, on a foggy morning.

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. . . .. . note two buttresses on the south side, the right side of this picture.
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Moving West to the next page, Wis Rapids 1st Street

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wrote Nov 22-25, 2009