The F. Raoul Martin Collection comprises books, magazines, slides, movie film, drawings, photos and files from Snoqualmie Washington, and topographic maps of Washington and Oregon. The second donation addedd more slides, video tapes, 16mm movies, DVD's and more books. Rolled and flat drawings.
The Eric Martin Collection includes a variety of railroad documents created between 1927 and 1985. Rule books, locomotive operating manuals, maps, and operating forms from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Burlington Northern Railroad Company, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company, Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) and other railroads are included.
The Emil Martincevic Collection includes Northern Pacific Railroad stock certificates, correspondence, telegrams and a typed note describing photos which were not included.
The Elmer Vetter Collection amalgamates a news article on a 1915 railroad accident, a binder of photographs of a 1913 trip to the east coast of the United States, a binder of postcards and photographs, a box of Vetter family photographs and letters and railroad booklets, and an envelope of stock certificates and other financial documents.
The Elmer Smoak Collection consists mainly of operating manuals for railroad locomtoives and their components. Additional materials on railroad operations, principally by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, are included.