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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.

The Gerold Dennis Collection consists of a 1956 Northern Pacific Railroad Company letter to the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) on the subject of reimbursement for room expenses incurred during a meeting with Canadian railroad companies.

The George Werkema Collection consists of photographic slides of Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) subjects and photographic slides of Northern Pacific Railroad Company subjects, some taken by Mr. Werkema and some from other sources. Some of these images are cross referenced to successor companies, such as the Burlington Northern Railroad Company, or to other related railroads. Subjects include railroad equipment, railroad stations, railroad bridges and other structures, and railroad tracks taken in locations across the western United States.

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 George Leu Collection includes books, locomotive photograph, and material on Wellington, Washington; the Wellington avalanche, Great Northern Railway seniority rosters, and a Great Northern Railway Cascade Tunnel article.