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.
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 Authority for Expenditure (AFE) Collection consists of approximately 150,000 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 1888 to 1984 and include some from predecessor (e.g. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad) and successor (Burlington Northern Railroad) companies. Other Identifiers: Jackson Street Roundhouse Accession Number 44, Jackson Street Roundhouse Collection Number.Accrual Number 45.1.
The Gerald Skillman Collection is comprised of 4 unused train sheets (Dispatchers Record of Train Movement sheets) from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Oregon Trunk Railway, and Oregon Electric Railway.
The George Simonson Collection includes documents on the Milwaukee Road, Burlington Northern, Nothern Pacific, SP&S, Union Pacific, Pacific Coast Railroad, Great Northern and other railroads. Railroad and model railroad magazines are also included, and books on railroad subjects.
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 Dwight Thompson Collection includes 6 issues of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society (GNRHS) "Goat" magazine, 16 GNRHS reference sheets, the September 1995 issue of "Northwest Railfan", and the SP&S Historical Society magazine "The Northwest's Own Railway for Spring, 1989.
The Duane Cramer collection comprises SP&S trainmens' train registers for portions of 1937, 1938 and 1940, and SP&S job list books for 1925 to 1930 and 1931 to 1932.
The Doug Wingfield Collection consists of a series of train orders and clearances from the Great Northern depot at Eureka, Montana from 1907, and 2 computer discs of color photographs taken by Doug Wingfield of Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Spokane, Portland, and Seattle (SP&S) equipment taken in 1968, 1969 and 1970 in the Spokane, Washington, Missoula, Montana and Whitefish, Montana areas.
