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 Mark McLean Collection brings together Tegtmeier photos, Robert McLean's railroad uniform, railroad keys and buttons, 200 photographs, several historical books, letters and other ephemera.
The Martin J. Lins Collection includes photographs of her uncle, Martin J. Lins, Chief Special Agent of the Great Northern, menus from President Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Glacier Park, Montana on August 3-7, 1934, and Martin Lin's Certificate of Annuity on his retirement.
The Marty Johnston Collection is comprised of photographs of railroad subjects from the first half of the 1900's with emphasis on the Great Northern and other northwestern railroads. Some timetables, maps and newspaper clippings are also included. Materials were collected by Robert Pearson, Mr. Johnston's grandfather.
