The Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Authority for Expenditure (AFE) Collection consists of 10,058 paper files. The contents document construction and modifications to the railroad and nearby structures, and include business and finance records, engineering drawings, maps, and correspondence. Records range from 1908 to 1968 and include some from the Oregon Trunk Railroad.
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Historical Society
The Steve Panzik Collection includes an extensive selection of Burlington Northern Railroad operating documents, chiefly from the Klamath Falls, Oregon area. See http://admin.pnrarchive.org/sites/databases/Collection%20Descriptions/w2014-34%20panzik%20train%20mtn%201-3.pdf for a detailed description. The second accrual added Southern Pacific Railroad items, additional Burlington Northern Railroad items and some documents from small regional railroads.
The Stuart Holmquist collection includes photographs of Northern Pacific buildings, locomotives and other subjects, a Northern Pacific Black Hills timetable from 1879, copies of the Burlington Northern "Burlington Bulletin" employee magazine, various Great Northern, Burlington Northern and Burlington Northern Santa Fe materials, copies of the Union Pacific Historical Society "Streamliner" magazine, a book of SP&S track plans, a book covering the Union Terminal Company in Dallas, Texas. Various books on railroad topics and annual reports for Great Northern Railway for1890-1920 and1944
The Stuart Johnson Collection includes magazines, Seaboard System timetables, a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad list of stations and names and a Union Pacific Railroad 150 year commemorative plate.
The Ted Pope Collection consists of copies of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road and SP&S timetables from 1908 to 1964 and photographs of Pacific Northwest railroad activities taken by Mr. Pope while a Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern employee in the early 1970's.
The Terry Storwick Collection is comprised of 4 books: Great Northern General Rules, Northern Pacific Fireman Standard Examination, History of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Clarence V. Monin, and "The Northern Pacific: Mainstreet of the Northwest" by Charles R. Wood. Also a roll of trainmen work schedules.
The Thomas C. Cranage Collection includes rolled maps of Northern Pacific property owned in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, 1 large route/schedule map, hand colored, for Washington state, a worldwide steamship map, a binder of timetables and booklets for the Northern Pacific and other railroads, and a box of documents from the Northern Pacific tax office.
The Waldo Thomas Collection includes materials on a wide range of railroad subjects, primarily created between 1950 and 2000, with some items as early as 1902. Documents include posters, post cards, tickets, engineering drawings, and maps. Materials produced by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Southern Pacific Railroad Company and other railroads are included.
