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The Adolph Kalinski Collections comprises operations documents for the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern and other railroads, Northern Pacific Authorizations for Expenditure (AFEs), timetables, ephemera, engineering drawings and photographs for the period between 1905 and 1978.

The Alan Baucon Collection includes 10 Great Northern engineering records, 8 maps of portions of Clark County, Washington and 1 engineering record from the W & ER & N Company (ORW&N?) in Vancouver, British Columbia (Washington?).

The Alden Raney Collection consists of slides and photographs documenting railroad activity in the Pacific Northwest between 1959 and 1989. Railroads covered in the collection are Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad, Milwaukee Road, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, logging railroads and others.

The Alex Bergstrom Collection is comprised of a Great Northern Railway first aid kit.

The Alfred E. Michon Collection includes documents produced by the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Burlington Northern Railroad Company, Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad Company and other railroads between 1966 and 1996. Also included in the collection are a wide variety of railroad ephemera from a variety of railroads and 25 photographs on the shipping of coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

The Ann Meyer Collection includes ephemera from the Milwaukee Road, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern, a Milwaukee Road timetable, 2 Great Northern, 1 Southern Pacific and 1 Canadian National photograph, and "The Story of the Wellington Avalanche".

The Annonymous Collection amalgamates materials from multiple donors and includes: Accrual W2011-14: 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #6 Engine and Tender (E.T.) Locomotive Brake Equipment and 1 book of engineering drawings of Westinghouse #8 E. T. Locomotive Brake Equipment, Accrual W2012-21: 1 book, "Steam Boilers" by E. M. Shealy, published by the University of Wisconsin in 1912, and 1 photograph, "Union Pacific Railroad Hangman Creek Trestle Spokane, Washington taken by Richard Hashagen. Accrual W2014-63: 1 box of newspaper clipping of advertisements for railroad travel. Accrual W2015-19: 1 water color by Howard Fogg. Accrual W2015-36: 4 maps of the Oregon Trunk Railway near Wishram, Washington, books on the Pullman Company, various railroad rule books. Accrual W2015-37: 5 VHS tapes on The Power of Milwaukee #261; The Best of 1985; Chicago Steam Celebration/ MILK #261; Union Pacific's 6900 Diesels; Riding the Rails, #4449, #261 Rebuild, Steamtown Grand Opening, The New Georgia Railroad. Accrual W2015-50: "Hillyard Drawings" of Great Northern Railway structures from the 1940's and 1950's. Accrual W2016-17: Great Northern, Nothern Pacific track profiles and plats in western Washington, Russell Company maps of Sedro-Woolley, Washington and Bellingham, Washington, and a Burlington Nothern system map. Accrual W2017-53: a topographical map of Butte, Montana from 1897. Accrual W2017-77: a Nothern Pacific demurrage from Prosser, Washington for 1941-1946, 3 maps of the Lester, Washington area, a book of electrical drawings for the Nothern Pacific's Lester, Washington headquarters. Accrual W2017-87: The Milwaukee Road Instruction Book for Class EP-2 Locomotives and a book "The Walschaert and Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives", 1916, by W. W. Wood.

The Baltimore & Ohio Historical Socity Deposit is comprised of 1 envelope of Great Northern flimsies (train orders) from the Thomas Arnold Collection.

The Betsy Roniger Collection includes photographs of Glacier National Park, Montana.

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.