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The Railroad Archives Online includes both railroad employee timetables and passenger timetable accumulated from donations of railroad documents. Railroads represented are primarily those which operated in the northwest United States, their predecessors and subsidiaries.

Great Northern Railway signal system standard components. The original engineering drawings were prepared between 1905 and 1957, and revised through 1962. Scans were prepared by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society in 2015.

Forms used by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern and other railroad related companies for various business purposes, dated from 1904 to 1967.

Miscellaneous Great Northern Railway-related items - seniority rosters, smaller collections or items that don't fit neatly into existing categories (as of 2011).

A listing of known Great Northern Railway station locations circa 1950, 1957 and 1967, prepared from Authorization for Expenditure data, Great Northern Railway timetables, and Great Northern Railway Officer, Agent and Station Lists.

A grouping of Great Northern Railway depot photographs compiled from several sources including principally the Norm Keyes, George Werkema and Charles W. Bohi collections.

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.

Scans of railroad clearance diagrams for the Great Northern Railway Dakota Division, Mesabi Division, Minot Division and Willmar Division. The diagrams show the space available to run railroad cars and loads along the track between stations on the line. Many dates are illegible, but those that are readable fall between 1957 and 1969.

Photographs, blueprints, trainsheets, timetables, telegrams and other items focused on the Great Northern's Cascade Division, selected from the collections of Dave Sprau, Bill Sornsin, Mike McLaughlin and others. Some materials were received from the Great Northern Railway Historical Society Archives at the Jackson Street Roundhouse, Saint Paul, Minnesota as noted in the item level records.

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.