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The Robert Lowry Collection is comprised of 43 photos of a variety of railroad subjects, postcards, 2 Northern Pacific car diagrams, timetables for the Burlington Northern and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads, and the book Spokane, Portland & Seattle Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Ed Austin.

The Robert E. Kelly Collection includes a Northern Pacific Railroad Company Annual Report from 1881, 15 Northern Pacific track profiles from Montana, a Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) book of Authorization for Expenditure from 1916-1956 for locations in Washington state, 5 books on James J. Hill, a copy of the 1948 Railway Engineering & Maintenance Cyclopedia - Track, Bridges, Water Service, Buildings, Signals. It also includes the books: "Railroads of Hawaii", "Puget Sound Electric Railway", "Empire Dreams", "The Early History of Transportation in Oregon", and "Great Northern Railway - Postwar Passenger Trains"; and 22 Inland Empire Historical Society calendars from 1976 to 2002. Later accruals added binders of Great Northern Railway Company photographs, Great Northern Railway station maps and other maps, Great Northern Railway documents and drawings, materials on the avalanche on the Great Northern Railway at Wellington, Washington, research materials on the Great Northern Railway Stevens pass rail line, a copy of "The Camas Prairie - Idaho's Panhandle Railroad", computer discs of oral history, copies of six books - "The Great Northern Railway - Kettle Falls, Washington Branch", "Rocky's Rail - A Spokane Division Trainman, 1960-2004", and "We Never Drove the Last Spike", "Remembering When", "Stevens Pass-Gateway to Seattle", "The Great Northern Railway Through Time", and state transportation maps for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, northern California showing transportation zones.

The Robert Colley is comprised of timetables, operating documents, photographs, books and periodicals on a variety of railroad subjects. Materials date between 1881 and 2007 with the majority from the second half of the twentieth century.

The Robert Berger Collection is comprised of 3,237 photographic slides taken by Al Robinson in the mid to late 1900's. Subjects are primarily railroad equipment and locations for the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Burlington Northern, SP&S, Union Pacific and other railroads.

The Rick Leach Collection consists of maps, plats, mechanical drawings and other documents from the Northern Pacific Railroad, Great Northern Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad, Burlington Northern, and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway over the period from 1915 to 1971.

The Richard Gill Collection is comprised of the 1955 Great Northern Railway Annual Report.

The Ray W. Howard Library Deposit comprises microfilm copies of documents from the Great Northern (1862- 1922) and Nothern Pacific (1864-1922). Coverage includes the Board of Directors, corporate history, labor, and settlement and development of railroad land. Also included are James J. Hill personal and private papers 1874-1916.

The Randal Anderson Collection is a log book for Great Northern Railway Baggage trransfer at Everett, Washington 7/11/1956 to 2/6/1959.

The Paul Williams Collections includes 23 books on railroad subjects, including the Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company and Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

The Paul Lacombe Collection puts together documents primarily from the Great Northern Railway between 1914 and 1971. Other materials are from the Burlington Northern and SP&S.