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 Carlson Collection is comprised of various photographic slides, and 4x6 and 8x10 black and white and color prints of Great Northern Railway subjects.
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 Dave Vos Collection includes time books for Richard G Swanson from the Minot Division of the Great Northern Railway and 5 books about BNSF rules, Burlington Northern Railroad operations and systems operations.
