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Continuing the saga he started in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884, Peter J. Lewty traces the rivalry and expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railway systems in the interior Northwest, 1885-93. soft cover 326 pages in 6 x 9 format. Other categories: Publication Book

The Adolph Kalinski Collections comprises operations documents for the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern and other railroads, Northern Pacific Authorizations for Expenditure (AFEs), timetables, ephemera, engineering drawings and photographs for the period between 1905 and 1978.

The Alan Baucon Collection includes 10 Great Northern engineering records, 8 maps of portions of Clark County, Washington and 1 engineering record from the W & ER & N Company (ORW&N?) in Vancouver, British Columbia (Washington?).

The Alden Raney Collection consists of slides and photographs documenting railroad activity in the Pacific Northwest between 1959 and 1989. Railroads covered in the collection are Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad, Milwaukee Road, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, logging railroads and others.

The Allan Manson Collection is comprised of primarily of Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Railroad operations documents, employee magazines and financial documents dated between 1968 and 2013 as collected by a locomotive engineer. It also includes some operations documents from other railroads and operating equipment manuals.

The Annonymous Collection amalgamates materials from multiple donors and includes: Accrual W2011-14: 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #6 Engine and Tender (E.T.) Locomotive Brake Equipment and 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #8 E. T. Locomotive Brake Equipment, Accrual W2012-21: 1 book, "Steam Boilers" by E. M. Shealy, published by the University of Wisconsin in 1912, and 1 photograph, "Union Pacific Railroad Hangman Creek Trestle Spokane, Washington taken by Richard Hashagen. Accrual W2014-63: 1 box of newspaper clipping of advertisements for railroad travel. Accrual W2015-19: 1 water color by Howard Fogg. Accrual W2015-36: 4 maps of the Oregon Trunk Railway near Wishram, Washington, books on the Pullman Company, various railroad rule books. Accrual W2015-37: 5 VHS tapes on The Power of Milwaukee #261; The Best of 1985; Chicago Steam Celebration/ MILK #261; Union Pacific's 6900 Diesels; Riding the Rails, #4449, #261 Rebuild, Steamtown Grand Opening, The New Georgia Railroad. Accrual W2015-50: "Hillyard Drawings" of Great Northern Railway structures from the 1940's and 1950's. Accrual W2016-17: Great Northern, Nothern Pacific track profiles and plats in western Washington, Russell Company maps of Sedro-Woolley, Washington and Bellingham, Washington, and a Burlington Nothern system map. Accrual W2017-53: a topographical map of Butte, Montana from 1897. Accrual W2017-77: a Nothern Pacific demurrage from Prosser, Washington for 1941-1946, 3 maps of the Lester, Washington area, a book of electrical drawings for the Nothern Pacific's Lester, Washington headquarters. Accrual W2017-87: The Milwaukee Road Instruction Book for Class EP-2 Locomotives and a book "The Walschaert and Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives", 1916, by W. W. Wood.

Photographs of bridges or trestles constructed by a railroad company, typically for the passage of railroad equipment.

The James Fredrickson Collection Union Pacific Railroad caboose photograph subseries is a compilation of photographs concerned with Union Pacific Railroad Company cabooses.