The Nathan Proudfoot Collection includes Burlington Northern documents orginally accumulated in the Woodinville, Washington section house. The documents pertain to mainenance of way projects in western Washington.
The Norm Keyes Collection is comprised of black and white prints of Great Northern Railway steam engines, work equipment, approximately 3650 photographic slides, and film negatives - approximately 5500. A limited number of photographs of equipment from other railroads and logging railroads are included.
The Norm Priebe Collection is comprised of 19 Burlington Northern employee timetables (E2012-006) and additional items not recorded at the time of accession. (E2006-003).
The Norm Priebe Collection consists of Northern Pacific Railroad train sheets dated March 20, October 19th, Nov 8th and 10th, 1946 for Missoula, Montana and Great Northern Railway train sheets dated 6/23/1965, 6/26/1965, 6/28/1965, 10/19/1965, and 10/20/1965 for Seattle, Washington.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Association Collection includes Northern Pacific Railroad Special Projects files, a picture of two locomotives: Great Northern Railway 5201 and Saint Paul Union Depot Company 441, a book - "The Dutiful Son" by Young and McCormack, a magazine - "The Call of the Mountains", and miscellaneous photos, some by Warren McGee and Ronald Nixon, primarily of Northern Pacific Railroad subjects.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Records Collection includes Valuation Records which provide an inventory of the entire railroad at the time the records were created. Most of valuation reports are from the early to mid 1920s. Items include bridges, tunnels, track structure, buildings, signaling, shops (including tools), rolling stock and locomotives. The collectionincludes some 50 volumes corresponding to geographic areas of the railroad (Valuation Sectio). There is a volume of maps showing the Valuation Sections in detail. Some of the records correspond to subsidiary companies of the Northern Pacific such as the Minnesota & International and the Duluth Union Depot and Transfer Railway. The collection also includes Interstate Commerce Commision Accident Reports, Interstate Commerce Commision OAO and Northern Pacific Railroad Mechanical Department documents.