Fonds consists primarily of technical drawings and photographs related to the construction of locomotives by the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC), the H.K. Porter Company, and the Davenport Locomotive Company. The Fonds has been arranged into four CLC series and two sous-fonds for Porter and Davenport company records.

Photographs from World War Two, Philip Etters identification cards, literature on the navy and military, correspondances with the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association, newspaper articles, newspapers from World War Two, House of Commons releases, the journal "The Red Duster".