The Kurt Armbruster Collectionis is comprised of photographs, books,audio cassettes of conversations with railroad employees and CDs on Pacific Northwest railroad subjects.
The Kenneth Thompson Collection includes Great Northern seniority lists from 1956 and 1960, the Empire Builder schedule for 1960, and condensed Great Northern passenger schedules for 1962 and 1964.
The Judith Willis Collection includes a postcard packet with double sided pictures, single sided postcards of King Street Station in Seattle, Washington, and the Great Northern Railway Oriental Limited at Horseshoe Tunnel in the Cascade Mountains.
The Joy Winston Collection includes railroad books, model train cars, Great Northern Railway prints, a binder of Great Northern Railway tariffs, advertising pages and photographs.
The Joseph McGee Collection includes 6 time books (labeled 1-7, but 2 is missing) for Brakeman Joe McGee on the Northern Pacific Railroad Company's Idaho Division out of Spokane from September 1, 1946 through June 30, 1956 (Accrual W2012-11) and 3 large format Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) time tables: Great Northern #30 for the Montana Division dated 06/01/1930, Great Northern #39 for the Butte Division dated 12/13/1936 and Great Northern (United States Railroad Administration) #4 dated 10/05/1919.
The John Mess Collection includes 9 circulars from the Pullman Company and additional correspondence concerning passenger cars for the Great Northern Empire Builder between 1950 and 1961.
The John F. Strauss Collection includes materials on various Pacific Northwest railroads including the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Burlington Northern. Items include sound recordings on vinyl, VHS format video recordings, books on railroad topics, scrapbooks on Great Northern passenger service and timetables for various railroads. Materials date between 1905 and 2008 with most from the second half of the 20th century.
The John Christensen Collection includes published books on railroad subjects, operating documents for the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, equipment manuals and other documents received from Don Stay, Southern Pacific track profiles from 1990 and Operating Rules for 1986, the diary of J. P. Titus, an engineer involved in the Northern Pacific's Eagle Gorge, Washington line change in 1958, and trainmens' work schedules for Everett, Washington in the late 1980's and early 1990's
The Jim Parker Collection includes 135 photographs of Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad locomotives, freight cars and passenger cars.
