The "Authorization for Expenditure" files saved from the Great Northern Railway's Seattle Engineering offices cover "West End" locations in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho and western Montana. They are identified in several SERIES CODES as follows: AB - 1896-1898 Advisory Board (often called Additions and Betterments in error) BS – code not deciphered CP - 1918-1920 Corporate (non-United States Railroad Administration items) EM – Eastern Railway of Minnesota (or Eastern Minnesota Railroad) FOS – code not deciphered GM - 1905-1907 General Manager Great Northern Railway (Lines West) GP - 1925-1954 Glacier Park Company GX - 1890-1896 Great Northern Railway, General Manager IE - 1907-1919 Inland Empire System (Interurban and short lines near Spokane, Washington) 'I' (Roman Numeral) - 1896-1915 Great Northern Railway, Old Series 'II' (Roman Numeral) - 1915-1960 Great Northern Railway, New Series KV - 1901-1902 Kootenai Valley Railway MB - prior to 1890 - Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway PC - 1952-1970 Pacific Coast Railroad RR - Great Northern Railway Assistant Chief Engineer SC - 1927-1928 Spokane, Coeur d’Alene & Palouse Railway SF - 1900-1907 Spokane Falls & Northern Railway (SF&N) SG - 1906-1907 SF&N, General Manager SL - 1905-1940 Somers Lumber Company SN – Seattle and Northern Railway VW - 1906-1907 Vancouver, Westminster & Yukon Railway WO – code not deciphered WT - 1905-1935 Washington Townsite Company
The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Collection consists of 16mm films and documents: Pacific Coast Railroad annual reports for 1951-1969 and Oregon California and Eastern Railroad annual reports for 1948-1969, Pacific Coast Railroad Interstate Commerce Commission annual reports for 1945-1967, Great Northern Railway - British Columbia annual reports, Great Northern Railway ledgers of California Statistics circa 1966-1969, Great Northern Railway Canadian Activity reports for various years, binders of Great Northern Railway records between 1910 and 1989.
The Gordon Jackins Collection is comprised of railroad industry and railroad hobbyist magazines, and newspaper clippings and official documents relating to Sound Transit in the Seattle, Washington area, most between 1987 and 2006.
The Glenn Staehli Collection is is self-published book of railroad stories told to Alice Staehli by her husband Glenn Staehli, who was a locomotive engineer and Road Foreman of Engines of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
The Glen Comstock is comprised of photographs of railroad freight cars manufactured by the Pacific Car and Foundry Company, Pacific Car and Foundry Company brochures and project lists, and a 1920 letter and envelope from Pacific Car and Foundry Company.
The Gladys Bouthillier Collection consists of 2 scrapbooks including photographs of train crews staying at the Portland, Oregon Travelodge motel, taken between 1978 and 1982.
The Gerold Dennis Collection consists of a 1956 Northern Pacific Railroad Company letter to the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) on the subject of reimbursement for room expenses incurred during a meeting with Canadian railroad companies.
The Gerald Skillman Collection is comprised of 4 unused train sheets (Dispatchers Record of Train Movement sheets) from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Oregon Trunk Railway, and Oregon Electric Railway.
