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Great Northern Railway Historical Society Archives at Jackson Street Roundhouse, Saint Paul, Minnesota
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This collection includes Great Northern Railway Authorization for Expenditure files and microfilm and Great Northern Railway Authorization for Expenditure files from the Bellingham depot. Other Identifiers: Jackson Street Roundhouse Accession Numbers 63, 362. Jackson Street Roundhouse Collection Number.Accrual Numbers 6.1, 6.2.
The Great Northern Railway- Blueprint-Authorization for Expenditure Collection (GN_Blueprint_AFEs) was created by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society from materials at the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Blueprints and other documents stored with Great Northern Railway Authorization for Expenditure files were gathered and cataloged as a separate collection with reference to the Authorization for Expenditure number where available. In addition to Great Northern Railway blueprints, some supplier blueprints, catalogs, and other supplemental materials for individual projects are included. Blueprints are categorized as Engineering drawings when depicting buildings, track and other structures and as Mechanical drawings when applicable to rolling stock. Other (minor) categories of documents include maps and plats, photographs and printed ephemera.
The Great Northern Railway Records Collectionincludes Great Northern Railway historic books, photographs of Minot, North Dakota, and claims photos for the Great Northern Railway.
The J. A. Gustaphson Collection is comprised of files from the Office of Chief Engineer: Specifications for Fabricating Concrete Piles and Trestle Slabs; Great Northern Railway - Statutory Clearances folder; Moving of Bridge Spans file; File of movable bridge machinery; File, Specifications for fabrications of reinforced concrete pipe; Folder of information about railroad bridges in Minneapolis; File, Specifications for erection of steel railway bridges; 2 files, Super elevation and length of Spirals for curved alignment; Book, Standard Track Layouts; File, Standard Timber Trestle Details; Form, blank Bridge Tie Inspection Report; Drawing, Allouez Ore Dock 2, inner fender west side; 4 drawings,Parts for concrete culvert installation and repair; Drawing, Standard Culvert Tie; Folder, specifications for Erection of Steel railroad Bridges; Drawing, Standard Pile Trestle for branch lines; Folder, instructions for Erection of Steel Bridges.