The Darren Wiese Collection brings together Darius Kinsey and Asahel Curtis photographs, Portland, Oregon trolley photographs, paper work from the Portland Traction Company, Northern Pacific Railroad, Great Northern Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Railroad, unused Northern Pacific Railroad and Portland traction car seals, and plaster detail from the Chehalis, Washington depot.
The Dave Franz Collection includes Burlington Northern Railroad train orders from 1985 for Missoula, Montana, bulletins from Missoula, and Burlington Northern Railroad computer printouts. Also assembled are Electro Motive Division and General Electric locomotive manuals, air brake books, Northern Pacific Railroad track Charts, and Northern Pacific Railroad station maps.
The David Abbott Collection holds Great Northern Railway Historical Society Collection 369.1 with documents relating to the avalanche at Wellington, Washington on March 1, 1910 on the Great Northern, documents on the Great Northern Railway's right-of-way through Anacortes, Washington and a track profile of the Great Northern between Lewiston, Idaho and Kingston, Montana. It also includes 27 copies of the Great Northern Railway employee newsletter "Talking It Over", 26 copies of the Burlington Nothern employee newsletter "BN News" and 72 copies of the Great Nothern Railway Historical Society magazine "Goat".
The David Emerson Collection encompasses materials primarily related to the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) and the Burlington Northern Railroad Company. It includes in excess of 27,000 photographs in addition to extensive Great Northern operational paperwork from the Spokane area and posters, ephemera, annual reports, newsletters, blueprints, equipment manuals, and timetables.
The David Letcher Collection consists of a photograph labeled "In the Heart of the Cascades" of the Northern Pacific right of way circa 1915, and compact discs entitled "Stack Muzik" of moving pictures of railroad equipment in the Bend, Oregon area in 1977 and 1978 principally of the Burlington Northern but including some other railroads.
