The Waldo Thomas Collection includes materials on a wide range of railroad subjects, primarily created between 1950 and 2000, with some items as early as 1902. Documents include posters, post cards, tickets, engineering drawings, and maps. Materials produced by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Southern Pacific Railroad Company and other railroads are included.
The University of Nebraska Collection is comprised of Great Northern Railway documents: a booklet "The Scenic Northwest"; a booklet "The Call of the Mountains", Annual Report 1965; Annual Report #71, 1959; Supplement to Annual Report #77, 1965; and a brochure "The Great Northern Today".
The Tom Carr Collection includes Great Northern Railway car drawing books from 1941 to 1952: Freight Cars, Passenger Cars, Work Equipment Cars, Passenger Cars #2, Locomotives, Work Equipment Cars #2, Diesel, Gas-Electric and Locomotive Diagrams.
The Terry Storwick Collection is comprised of 4 books: Great Northern General Rules, Northern Pacific Fireman Standard Examination, History of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by Clarence V. Monin, and "The Northern Pacific: Mainstreet of the Northwest" by Charles R. Wood. Also a roll of trainmen work schedules.
The Ted Pope Collection consists of copies of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road and SP&S timetables from 1908 to 1964 and photographs of Pacific Northwest railroad activities taken by Mr. Pope while a Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern employee in the early 1970's.
The Tacoma Chapter National Railroad Historical Society Donation encompasses Burlington Northern, Great Northern and Northern Pacific timetables, other railroad documents including brochures and quarterly reports and ephemera.
The Stuart Holmquist collection includes photographs of Northern Pacific buildings, locomotives and other subjects, a Northern Pacific Black Hills timetable from 1879, copies of the Burlington Northern "Burlington Bulletin" employee magazine, various Great Northern, Burlington Northern and Burlington Northern Santa Fe materials, copies of the Union Pacific Historical Society "Streamliner" magazine, a book of SP&S track plans, a book covering the Union Terminal Company in Dallas, Texas. Various books on railroad topics and annual reports for Great Northern Railway for1890-1920 and1944