The Charles Jarrett Collection includes Great Northern Railway ephemera, photographs, correspondence, maps, brochures, a telegraph key and model box cars.
The Charles Intlekofer Collection is comprised of some 5,000 photographs taken between 1953 and 1980 of Great Northern subjects. It also includes 3 boxes of Great Northern business files, documents and newsletters, with extensive documentation of Great Northern Authorizations for Expenditure 22053, 34418, 6416 and 11246.
The C. F. Wolfe Collection consists of materials dated between 1926 and 1980 and includes 33 maps and track profiles of the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) and the Burlington Northern Railroad Company, and various mechanical drawings and specifications for railroad tracks for the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Burlington Northern Railroad Company and Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
The Burlington Route Historical Society Collection includes Great Northern drawings 111-2519-1 for a hopper car, for Snow Shed #2: 229-5660-1-5 and photographs of various Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad subjects.
The Bradley Taylor Collection includes 2 books: A Photographic History of the Towns of Highway 2 (author unknown) and "Great Northern Color Pictorial, Volume 1 by John F. Strauss, Jr..
The Bob Heirman Collection consists of equipment manuals, rule books, timetables, personnel records including seniority lists, ephemera, approximately 30 photographs, maps and published books and magazines. Railroads covered include principally the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern, and other Railroads including the Camas Prairie; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; and Seattle and International Railway for the period between 1905 and 2016.
In 2008 the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, now BNSF, transferred a large collection of materials to institutions in the Saint Paul, Minnesota area. The Great Northern Railway Historical Society received approximately 4700 items consisting of right of way maps, plat maps, station maps, filing maps, geographic maps, state maps, mechanical drawings, as well as facility and structure drawings. In addition the materials contained engineering study records, and documents and ledgers of various kinds. The date range for these materials are from 1854 to 2008.
