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The Bjarne Overlie Collection includes motion picture film of Northern Pacific Railroad Company track improvement projects and Bjarne Overlie's personal expense diaries between 1959 and 1973.

The Western Railway Museum Deposit includes 54 slides taken by photographer Robert Hanff and other photographs, a trainman's cap, timetables, an Oregon, Washington Railroad & Navigation Company Condensed Track Profile book, Leahy's Railway Distance Maps revised January 1928 all from the Frank Vercelli Collection: 18 brochures, 1955 Great Northern Railway Annual Report, a Trains magazine from August 1947, 2 maps, 9 timetables, and 2 special instructions, 41 prints and 123 negatives from the Arturo Lloyd Collection, photographs from the Dudley Westler collection), a Budd car Northern Pacific ad, and a Great-Northwest Apple poster, the January, 1929 issue of "Railway and Marine News", an Interstate Commerce Commission document on Northern Pacific discontinuing Trains 1 and 2, and the book "Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest".

The Barney Donahue Collection consists of Northern Pacific Railroad maps.

The Barnes County Historical Society Collection includes photographs of railroad equipment.

The Antonio Bertapelle Collection consists of 2 Workmen's Standard Time Books kept in 1942 -1944 by Antonio Bertapelle, foreman of the Nothern Pacific's Missoula, Montana coal dock.

The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society Collection includes photographs taken mostly on a trip from St. Paul to Butte, Montana, in 1953 on the Northern Pacific Railroad North Coast Limited and photographs from John Endler, Jr. of Pacific Great Eastern and BC Railway subjects. Also included are photographs from Neil Shankweiler of BC Railway subjects.

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 Ann Olson Collection includes Northern Pacific Railroad uniform buttons, , 33 post cards mostly of Northern Pacific depots, and postcards of other railroad subjects.

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 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.