page_title: Ahnapee and Western Railway
section_title: Ahnapee State Trail
hierarchical_section_title: Ahnapee and Western Railway / Ahnapee State Trail
caption_attribution_description: Ahnapee and Western Railway bay window caboose No. 33, National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, WI
context_page_description: The Ahnapee and Western Railway was a common carrier short line railroad located in northeastern Wisconsin.
  The railroad ran 34.5 miles from a connection with the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad at Casco Junction to the lakeshore terminals of Algoma in Kewaunee County and Sturgeon Bay in the "Door County thumb" of Wisconsin. Other towns along the line include Casco, Rio Creek, Forestville, Maplewood, and Sawyer. The name of the railroad comes from the city of Ahnapee, which was founded along the Ahnapee River and became Algoma in 1899.
context_section_description: The railroad right of way has been turned into a hiking, biking, horse riding, and snowmobile trail called the Ahnapee State Trail, traveling from the railway's original connection with the former GB&W tracks at Casco Junction to Sturgeon Bay. It is open year around and gives users a remarkably scenic view of the Wisconsin countryside. Many artifacts of the A&W's history remain along the trail including steam locomotive boiler culverts, dated concrete bridges, several steel girder bridges, and many of the buildings that once housed rail-related industries.
caption: Ahnapee and Western caboose, on display
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