The Walt Grecula Collection is comprised of railroad photographs, maps, documents and ephemera. It covers chiefly the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, with additional materials from the successor Burlington Northern. It also has some documents and photographs from the Milwaukee Road and Northern Pacific. The period covered ranges from the 1920's to the 1980's.
The Waldo Thomas Collection includes materials on a wide range of railroad subjects, primarily created between 1950 and 2000, with some items as early as 1902. Documents include posters, post cards, tickets, engineering drawings, and maps. Materials produced by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Southern Pacific Railroad Company and other railroads are included.
The Vern Salomensen Collection is a group of photograph negatives of Northern Pacific equipment, chiefly steam locomotives, and locations taken in the 1950's.
The University of Nebraska Collection is comprised of Great Northern Railway documents: a booklet "The Scenic Northwest"; a booklet "The Call of the Mountains", Annual Report 1965; Annual Report #71, 1959; Supplement to Annual Report #77, 1965; and a brochure "The Great Northern Today".
The Tom Carr Collection includes Great Northern Railway car drawing books from 1941 to 1952: Freight Cars, Passenger Cars, Work Equipment Cars, Passenger Cars #2, Locomotives, Work Equipment Cars #2, Diesel, Gas-Electric and Locomotive Diagrams.