Fonds consists of 1 bound volume comprising the personal diary of John J. Porter, a labourer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, working largely between Field and Revelstoke.

The fonds consists of minutes, statements of accounts, financial ledgers, correspondence, membership lists, banking records, promotional material, and reference files pertaining to the activities of the Kamloops Railway Museum Society, and a collection of archival material and reference material (including published items) acquired by the society, including records of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway and of railway workers' unions. Fonds includes photographs collected by the museum society of trains and railway equipment and of scenes of railroad activity in the Kamloops area.

The fonds consists of correspondence sent and received by W.A. Wood with Henry MacLeod and J.M. Trutch while directing work on the B.C. Section of the Canadian Pacific Rail line.

The fonds consists of material generated and collected by the Lawson family and extended family members. Records include personal correspondence, photographs, journals, school records, and art work, as well as financial and business records pertaining to family businesses, investments and community involvement.

The fonds is arranged into the following sous-fonds and series:
Series 1: Photographs and postcards
Sous-fonds 1: John Lawson sous-fonds
Sous-fonds 2: Gertrude Lawson sous-fonds
Sous-fonds 3: Christina Lawson sous-fonds
Sous-fonds 4: Duncan Lawson sous-fonds
Sous-fonds 5: Harte family sous-fonds
Sous-fonds 6: Elizabeth Lawson sous-fonds

The fonds consists of photographs of railway stations and railway scenes across Canada, with information about the various sites where the stations were located.

The fonds consists of Hamilton's watercolours and drawings of Gastown and the Vancouver townsite prior to development by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The fonds consists of photographs depicting the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Pacific Section, including views of landscapes, tunnels, structures, and portraits of the Onderdonk family, business associates, and friends.

The fonds consists of albumen prints of the CPR line from Port Arthur to Victoria.

The fonds consists of a dwelling and grazing lease (Glacier, B.C., 1943), two photographs of CPR scenes (ca. 1930), and a photograph (1979) of the Royal Hudson train at Taghum Railway Bridge.

The fonds consists of railroad operational manuals, work orders, CPR-related correspondence, and seniority lists. Fonds includes retirement letters, newspapers and clippings, and ephemera.

The fonds consists of long service passes, CPR train pass, and photographs (including those depicting a CPR crane name plate, a train wreck in the Fraser Canyon, and the "Jam Train").

The fonds consists of CPR train orders, waybills, union receipt book, statements of earning, and other railroad-related records.

The collection consists of photographs of the Big Loop, passenger train at Stoney Creek Bridge, diesel pulling grain train over bridge, and engines used in the Canmore CPR yard. Collection includes postcards of various railroad engines.

The fonds consists of work-related diaries, correspondence, long service passes, CP credit card, medical card, and union card. Fonds includes photographs of CPR work gangs, plows, and work camps.

The fonds consists of trip ticket books, accident reports, income tax records, watch rating cards, logbooks, statements of earnings, lodge dues receipts, and other work-related records. Fonds includes photographs of CPR crew of last Arrowhead line trip (1968), steam engines, Ross' coworkers, and his wife.

The collection consists of photographs of train wrecks, snowplows, and Canadian Pacific Railway workers.

The collection consists of publicity photographs taken by Nicholas Morant for the Canadian Pacific Railway, including those depicting "The Canadian", telegraph poles, Stoney Creek Bridge, and a variety of individuals.

The fonds consists of receipts for train conductor sales, diagrams of shut-off valve locations on passenger cars, list of passenger car names, passenger train reports, long service pass, accident reports, train orders, correspondence, and copies of photographs of steamers.

The fonds consists of a trip ticket book, time book, telegram, train orders, memorabilia from the first "Canadian" run. Photographs depict Fred Watson, Arrowhead, and the Field YMCA.

The fonds consists of correspondence and related notes regarding the CPR and a photograph of engine No. 2860 at Revelstoke Station.

The fonds consists of photographs of CPR scenes and activities including images of Coquihalla Pass, Endiver, Nelson, an experimental diesel engine, Notch Hill and Princeton. Fonds includes a photograph of Ole and Alice Bjork on a velocipede and laser copies of photographic images of Lord Revlestoke, the Royal Train in Revelstoke, and of CPR stations and yards.

The collection consists of photographs of various CPR engines in Calgary, Revelstoke, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto, Medicine Hat and Crowsnest.

The collection consists of photographs of the Baird slide "Illicillewaet" and CPR trainwreck and photographs of a train wreck west of Greeley.

The fonds consists of employee timebooks, cheque stubs, union correspondence, general correspondence, accident reports, CP reports, train consists, ephemera, CP Rail bulletins, work-related diagram books, cartoons, examination certificates, and trainman's trip ticket books.

The collection consists of various records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers (Revelstoke), including receipts and notepads, and records of Walter and Dorothy Koronko, J. Waugh, and others including correspondence, and CPR employee cards. Collection also includes slides of various railroad engines, scenery, etc.