The Edward Berntsen Collection takes in assorted railroad documents containing operating information from BN, NP, Milw, SP&S, and 1 condensed track profile of the Northern Pacific Railroad Pacific Division, 2nd District, Tacoma to Portland dated Feb 13, 1900.
The E. K. Roberson Collection includes photographs of Burlington Northern locomotives, Burlington Northern maps, a Milwaukee Road photograph, a photograph album of railroad wrecks, and a variety of ephemera and artifacts.
The David Sprau Collection encompasses 32 boxes of documents covering most Pacific Northwest railroads and includes operations documents, businees correspondence, engineering drawings, photographs and maps. It includes materials received from Herb Schneider, John Phillips III and David Empfield.
The Dan Perkins Collection integrates some 15,000 photographic slides taken by Daniel Perkins between 1966 and 1973 of Pacific Northwest railroad subjects, chiefly equipment. Railroads covered include the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Spokane, Portland and Seattle, Southern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Union Pacific, and Pacific Coast.
The Dan Bolyard Collection unites photographs of the Milwaukee Road and Great Northern, Milwaukee road post cards, 7 issues of the "MilWest Dispatch" and a book titled "New Cascade Tunnel".
The John Deely Collection takes in Milwaukee Road photographs and union correspondence. It also includes photos, clippings, correspondence and post cards from the M.J. Costello collection including a hunting trip to Glacier National Park and photographs of a wreck of the Milwaukee Road Olympian passenger train, portions of which were scanned and the originals returned to Mr. Deely.
The Claude Earle Shinn Collection includes a box of Claude Shinn's personal materials: 3 diaries from 1938, 1942, and 1943, an insurance certificate, a photograph of Union Pacific Railroad steam engine Number 3975 and Union Pacific Railroad diesel locomotive Number 908, 4 photographs of Claude Shinn, his retirement notice and two articles about him.
The Christ Velais Collection gathers ledgers of shipment invoices throughout the Milwaukee Road Coast Division from World War I era, and hundreds of employee pay slips for same era.