Section House Dwellings

Section foremen were supplied with Frisco-built homes.

There was a two-story one in my home town of Dixon, MO. I grew up there in the 1940s to early 1960s. The house there was occupied by a Mr. Wilson, who was foreman of the Dixon Hill section gang and had a very large family. The house was "decrepit" to say the least. For years, it had only an outhouse for a "repository."

I remember it being of two-stories. I have a Frisco drawing for a one-story, four-room section house, but not of the two-story house. The drawing is titled Frisco Lines Section House Fro Warm Climate and was adopted November 10, 1906.

Railroad Model Craftsman (RMC) ran drawings of a two-story CPR section house in the December 1982 issue, which included photos of six different houses, all with roof variations.

Do any of you have photos showing a Frisco 2-story section house lurking in the background that you could scan and e-mail me?

I'd like to model Dixon for the NMRA Prototype Scene AP award.

There was also a well pump house and tower at Dixon next to the section motor car shed for many years that I'll need to model, but I think I've seen a kit that should work.

Thanks,

Doug

 

I also have the diagram for the cold climate single-story section house.

It featured a cellar under the kitchen accessible by a stair well from the back porch.

Santa Fe's web site has several photos of similar, to my memory, two-story section houses. Photographs of a few Santa Fe buildings are attached.

 

It was about a block west on the north side of the tracks, as was the depot.

There's a fascinating 1893 book available on line, thanks Google, that has everything one would want to know about old railroad buildings. Chapters III and IV cover section houses. It even has plans for the AT&SF 2-story section house from the photos above.

Please see the link below.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=wisc89081524373

Page 267 shows the little Grisley Flats station Disney copied for the theme parks.

Now to buy a bunch of Evergreen 2x4s and other styrene and get busy.

Back to TurboTax.

 

My id photo in the upper left hand here shows the existing building sitting where the Dixon depot was located.

The white "Butler" on the right hand center of the photo. The old section house would have been in the background of the photo if it were still existent.

It was torn down in the early 1960's.

 

When I was in Dixon today, I was told by several locals that this was the section house for the Frisco employees.

It is huge! Two stories tall and twice as deep.

 

Those locals aren't always truthful.

That old house is long gone, as it should be.

 

Just when you thought it was ok to listen to them.

 

I know this is a long shot, does anyone have plans, or photos of the standard Frisco Section House Dwelling?

They had a two story rectangular front section and an one story section on the back which I think was the kitchen.

Most were torn down in the 1920s.

 

I have posted the 1906 standard plans for a warm climate and a cold climate section house.

Query: section house standard plan.

 

Karl,

Thank you.

However, the section houses on the Northern division were two story in the front, with a one story "L" section on the rear which I think was the kitchen.

Do you have any plans for them or pictures?