Robert E. Kelly Collection

Collection

Robert E. Kelly Collection

• 1881-2021 (Creation)

19 books, 40 binders, 7 boxes

The Robert E. Kelly Collection includes a Northern Pacific Railroad Company Annual Report from 1881, 15 Northern Pacific track profiles from Montana, a Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) book of Authorization for Expenditure from 1916-1956 for locations in Washington state, 5 books on James J. Hill, a copy of the 1948 Railway Engineering & Maintenance Cyclopedia - Track, Bridges, Water Service, Buildings, Signals. It also includes the books: "Railroads of Hawaii", "Puget Sound Electric Railway", "Empire Dreams", "The Early History of Transportation in Oregon", and "Great Northern Railway - Postwar Passenger Trains"; and 22 Inland Empire Historical Society calendars from 1976 to 2002. Later accruals added binders of Great Northern Railway Company photographs, Great Northern Railway station maps and other maps, Great Northern Railway documents and drawings, materials on the avalanche on the Great Northern Railway at Wellington, Washington, research materials on the Great Northern Railway Stevens pass rail line, a copy of "The Camas Prairie - Idaho's Panhandle Railroad", computer discs of oral history, copies of six books - "The Great Northern Railway - Kettle Falls, Washington Branch", "Rocky's Rail - A Spokane Division Trainman, 1960-2004", and "We Never Drove the Last Spike", "Remembering When", "Stevens Pass-Gateway to Seattle", "The Great Northern Railway Through Time", and state transportation maps for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, northern California showing transportation zones.

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• English

• Latin

Ownership of Accrual W2009-07 resides in the the Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Association. Ownership of Accruals W2015-04, W2018-45, W2018-55, 2018-71 and W2021-01 resides in the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. Ownership of Accruals W2013-02, W2015-08, W2015-41, W2016-14, W2016-21, W2016-66, W2017-84, 2019-38, W2020-18, W2020-19, W2020-20, W2020-53, W2021-11, W2021-12, W2021-28 and W2021-76 resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive.

Donated by Robert E. Kellly. Accrual 2009-07 received in 2009. Accrual 2013-02 received 01/16/2013. Accrual W2015-04 received 01/28/2015. Accrual W2015-08 received 03/04/2015. Accrual W2015-41 received 09/16/2015. Accrual 2016-14 received 03/02/2016. Accrual 2016-21 received 03/23/2016. Accrual 2016-22 received 03/30/2016. Accrual 2016-66 received 11/16/2016. Accrual 2017-84 received 11/29/2107. Accrual W2018-45 received 07/25/2018. Accrual W2018-55 received 09/05/2018. Accrual W2018-71 received 11/28/2018. Accrual W2019-38 received 08/26/2020. Accrual W2020-18 received 08/26/2020. Accrual W2020-19 received 09/07/2020. Accrual W2020-20 received 09/17/2020. Accrual W2020-53 received 10/29/2020. Accrual W2021-01 received 01/08/2021. Accrual W2021-11 received 02/22/2021. Accrual W2021-12 received 03/08/2021. Accrual W2021-28 received 05/29/2021. Accrual W2021-76 received 10/05/2021.

W2009-07, W2013-02, W2015-04, W2015-08, W2015-41, W2016-14, W2016-21, W2016-22, W2016-66, W2017-84, W2018-45, W2018-55, W2018-71, W2019-38, W2020-18, W2020-19, W2020-20, W2020-53, W2021-01, W2021-11, W2021-12, W2021-28, W2021-76

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