The James LeVere Collection includes BNSF System Map 2015, BNSF System Map 2007, a booklet titled "History and Legacy-The History of the BNSF for the 21st Century", Northern Pacific Railroad Signal Standard (SS) drawings range 1-305 not inclusive, Burlington Northern Railroad maps for Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorade, Montana, and Iowa, the BNSF system, a Burlington Northern Railroad USA map, maps of theBurlington Northern Railroad system, Burlington Northern Railroad Engineering Handbook an wooden engraved ruler and other Burlington Northern Railroad ephemera.
The James Fredrickson Collection is an extensive compilation of documents and photographs, primarily concerned with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company with additional coverage of other Pacific Northwest railroads. The Fredrickson Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) collection covers documents from the Northern Pacific's Tacoma and Idaho Divisions from 1900 to 1927. Many of these documents are actually Field Completion Reports (FCR).
The James Martin Collection consists of 8 published railroad books, miscellaneous railroad ephemera, 423 photographs and negatives of railroad subjects, and additional photographs and items primarily from the Great Northern Railway.
The James Mattson Collection includes a set of Northern Pacific Railroad Company Field Completion Reports, a book of Northern Pacific right of way plat from Paradise, Montana to Hope, Idaho, 2 Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) Authorization For Expenditure books originally held at the King Street Station, Seattle, Washington. It also a group of various railroad maps and track profiles and 4 boxes of various railroad time tables.
The James R. Giblin Collection is comprised of framed posters of Burlington Northern Railroad trains, an oil painting of a Great Northern Railway train, jackets from his father's various positions and regions with Burlington Northern Railroad, a picture of a microwave tower and miscellaneous binders, manuals and business cards.
The James Sovay Collection assembles Burlington Northern Railroad track profiles, plat maps, message pads, track work standard plans, a Burlington Northern Railroad form for yard and back track inspections, training manuals, Burlington Northern Railroad calendars, and plat maps from the Ed White collection.