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The Paul C. Newell Collection encompases published books on railroad topics, including the Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and other railroads.

The Patty Groesbeck Collecton consists primarily of documents pertaining to locomotive engineers' employment and job duties for railroads including the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Great Northern, Burlington Northern and other railroads between 1905 and 1996. It also includes some fifty photographs of railroad locomotives and cars in various locations throughout the western United States.

The Mike Sawyer Collection is comprised of published books from the 1990's on Pacific Northwest railroad subjects and timetables for the Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific from 1977 through 2008.

The Mark Gelhaus Collection includes documents, timetables, operating instructions, equipment manuals, maps, equipment registers, photographs and sound recordings produced between 1885 and 1994. Railroad represented include the Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Great Northern and other railroads. Many of these materials were accumulated by Michael D. Gelhaus and Al Bennett.

The Kurt Armbruster Collectionis is comprised of photographs, books,audio cassettes of conversations with railroad employees and CDs on Pacific Northwest railroad subjects.

The John McNutt Collection includes Milwaukee Road Rules and Instructions, 1974, Safety Instructions, 1970, and a public timetable from May, 1939. Also included are a Railroad Commisssioners' report from 1907, a Consolidated Code from 1967, an Electro-Motive Division Operator's Manual for their SD-7 from 1954, a United Transportation Union Schedule for Trainmen and Yardmen from 1969, a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad notebook, "The Railroad Spiral" by William Searles, 1906, and a Southern Pacific "Shasta Route" timetable from 1956.

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 James Fredrickson Collection is an extensive compilation of documents and photographs, primarily concerned with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company with additional coverage of other Pacific Northwest railroads. The Fredrickson Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) collection covers documents from the Northern Pacific's Tacoma and Idaho Divisions from 1900 to 1927. Many of these documents are actually Field Completion Reports (FCR).

The Hal Will Collection includes 57 photographs, principally of Great Northern Railway equipment, taken in the Seattle, Washington area between 1947 and 1956.

The Dan Perkins Collection integrates some 15,000 photographic slides taken by Daniel Perkins between 1966 and 1973 of Pacific Northwest railroad subjects, chiefly equipment. Railroads covered include the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Spokane, Portland and Seattle, Southern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Union Pacific, and Pacific Coast.