More on the Green Bay & Western Single Sheathed Cars

Will Whittaker photo

Awhile back, I posted about the similarities between the Milwaukee and Green Bay & Western forty-foot single sheathed automobile cars. I was perusing more photos of the GB&W fleet and found similar cars. Both the GB&W and sister Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western rostered 10'0" inside height single sheathed box cars that are obviously based upon the auto car design built by Bettendorf. The cars incorporated an additional sheathing panel and diagonal structural member to the left of the door and dispensed with the stiffening channel section below the side sill in the center of the car, but are otherwise extremely similar/identical to the auto cars. The cars were in the KGB 5500 series and the GBW 8100 series, all built by Bettendorf in 1930. These are yet another group of cars that can be rolled into the auto car project

Tom Klinger Collection