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The Anonymous Donations Collection includes a Dispatchers Book, and shaving kit from the Oriental Limited passenger train, a track profile - Saint Cloud, Minnesota to Willmar, Minnesota, Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company general specifications and drawings for 35 passemger cars, photographs, audio tapes of anouncements used on the eastbound Empire Builder (1955 to circa 1965), copied to audio CD, a copy of the Mid-Continent Railway Gazette, Passenger Timetable 1940; Pamphlet - The Columbia River Historical Expedition, 1926; Book-Columbia River Historical Expedition via the Great Northern; Great Northern Railway annual report to employees 1960; Folder-Colonization & Immigration by the Great Northern; Twelve pictures-Great Northern; Partial list of Winold Reiss Indian Calendars-1931 to 1956, advertising booklets about Great Northern Railway resources and business opportunities, "The General", a 35mm movie film, 2 picture books about the Great Northern, a timetable, Great Northern Broadcast audio tapes from 1930 and 1931, on reels, a book detailing adventures searching for railroad right of ways, a CD of Eastbound Passenger Train announcements, a Great Northern Railway Main line track profile, the Park River and Somers depots, a CD of Duluth. Minnesota - Superior, Wisconsin Burlington Northern Railroad/Great Northern Railway and a Northern Pacific Railroad/Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway consolidation study, a book of Great Northern Railway Standard Signs, a pamphlet, "Rules for Reporting Information on Railroad Employees", drawings of track tools, property signs, rail profiles, track layout and design, an agreement between the Great Northern Railway Company and System Federation #101 Railways Employes Department, American Federation of Labor, Great Northern Railway Work Order Files, Great Northern Railway forms and envelopes, a bridge list - Great Northern Railway Willmar Division - Eastern District, Saint Paul, Minnesota to Hutchinson, Minnesota, Saint Cloud, Minnesota area various railroad photographs, Great Northern Railway business record, and Great Northern Railway maps and drawings on CD.

The Great Northern Railway- Blueprint-Authorization for Expenditure Collection (GN_Blueprint_AFEs) was created by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society from materials at the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Blueprints and other documents stored with Great Northern Railway Authorization for Expenditure files were gathered and cataloged as a separate collection with reference to the Authorization for Expenditure number where available. In addition to Great Northern Railway blueprints, some supplier blueprints, catalogs, and other supplemental materials for individual projects are included. Blueprints are categorized as Engineering drawings when depicting buildings, track and other structures and as Mechanical drawings when applicable to rolling stock. Other (minor) categories of documents include maps and plats, photographs and printed ephemera.

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Collection consists of 16mm films and documents: Pacific Coast Railroad annual reports for 1951-1969 and Oregon California and Eastern Railroad annual reports for 1948-1969, Pacific Coast Railroad Interstate Commerce Commission annual reports for 1945-1967, Great Northern Railway - British Columbia annual reports, Great Northern Railway ledgers of California Statistics circa 1966-1969, Great Northern Railway Canadian Activity reports for various years, binders of Great Northern Railway records between 1910 and 1989.