The Russell Johnson collection includes 38 equipment manuals, textbooks and rule books, 12 magazines and newspapers, 18 time tables, track maps, employment documents and miscellaneous small artifacts and printed ephemera related to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), and Burlington Northern Railroad Company in addition to operating manuals for locomotives and other railroad equipment. The second accrual was 2 boxes of engineering drawing and miscellaneous documents from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company's Bellingham, Washington depot.
The San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum Collection is comprised of the book "Wonderland 1905", descriptions of the Pacific Northwest written by Olin D. Wheeler and published by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the brochure "Scenic Highlights" produced by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The Scott Tanner Collection includes Great Northern and Northern Pacific documents from the early to mid-1900's , drawings and documents relating to the King Street Station in Seattle, Washington, a scrapbook with items from Holloway, Minnesota and an engineering drawing of the trestle at Lowell, Washington.
The Skykomish Historical Society Collection consists of the Northern Pacific's booklet "Through Wonderland" on Yellowstone National Park, a collection of photographs accumulated by Chuck Strawn, Great Northern Railway locomotive erection drawings gathered by Mike Bartenstein.
The Stan Kistler Collection consists of over 500 images of Northern Pacific Railroad Company equipment during the middle decades of the 20th century and 12 Northern Pacific public timetables from the 1930's through 1957, collected by Harold Stewart.
The Stephen Irwin collection is 152 railroad 5" x7" photographs each printed and captioned by photographer Ron Nixon from his collection of Northern Pacific railroad photographs.
The Steve Hauff Collection holds primarily Milwaukee Road materials together with a book of mechanical drawings for the Northern Pacific-Union Pacific interlocking plant at Tacoma, Washington.
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
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.
