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.
Heirman, Robert J.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..
Taylor, Bradley J.The Bruce Spiva Collection includes Great Northern Railway rules and Instructions dated 7/1/1937.
Spiva, BruceThe 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.
Moore, AllenThe 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.
Wolfe, Charles F.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.
Intlekofer, Charles F.The Charles Jarrett Collection includes Great Northern Railway ephemera, photographs, correspondence, maps, brochures, a telegraph key and model box cars.
Jarrett, CharlesThe Chris Tossey Collection joins maps of the Great Northern route over Stevens Pass, Washington and notes from on-site research.
Tossey, ChrisThe collection puts together educational booklets from Railway Educational Bureau, issues of the "Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette", station and bridge drawings, Northern Pacific forms and BN "West Chronicles", an NP Engine Facility Plat Map Book, 8 photos of derailment of tank cars with resulting fire, a drawing and request for passenger depot near Dryad, WA, a "Model Railroader" article from the January, 2002 issue on GN M-2 Class 2-6-8-0, a framed photo showing a pile driver, and 2 books: "Ships of the Inland Sea" and Sternwheelers up the Columbia", 12'x26" photo of Puget Sound Flouring Mill workers in front of mill and Stadium Telegraph Office. A Boland Photo E1388-Tacoma-180 degree photo.
Soule, ChuckThe Chuck Strawn Collection includes photographs of United States and Canadian railroad subjects, primarily equipment and structures. The photographs were mostly taken by Chuck Strawn but include some taken by his father, D.A. Strawn, and other photographers.
Strawn, Chuck