Standard Plan: Section House, Cold Climate, 1906

A typical layout is depicted in the upper left of the drawing. A typical arrangement included the section house, the bunkhouse, tool house, privies, and well.

 

A two-floor version was located in my home town of Dixon, MO - with outside privi. A boyhood playmate, Billy Don Wilson, grew up in it. It was weathered black.

The ICC VAL map for Newburg, MO also showed a two-floor version on the NW side of the yard.

PHOTOS? They may have looked a little like these:

 

Re: Section House

The AT&SF also had some standard designs - this and more were found using Google Images.

 

Doug .. I cannot enlarge this drawing.
Think you can re-post it.
Thanks, Sherrel

 

The softward won't allow it as I've already uploaded it. I'll e mail it to you, but I can't remember your e mail address.

 

Where on the system used the two types of section houses? In other words, what criteria did the Frisco use to construct a "Warm Climate" vs "Cold Climate" section house?

Paul

 

Section Houses

About 20 years ago, Railroad Model Craftsman ran an article about section houses and featured drawings and photos of some Canadian standards. It also referenced Walter G. Berg's classic 1893 book BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS. Berg is over 500 pages. It's also available as a free download from Google.

Chapters III and IV are about section and employee houses.

Those two chapters are attached as a .pdf FYE.

The little "Grizzley Flats" station copied by Disney is in a later chapter, Doug

 

Don't know, but Dixon's was cold climate with the cellar under the kitchen.

 

Digging up an old thread. Does anyone have any good pictures they could share with us of the section houses? Are any still standing? Has anyone ever offered the Frisco specific type as a kit?

 

Kent, apparently photos of sections house, especially Frisco section houses, are few and far between. And typical Frisco, just looking at the plats of Osceola and Beaumont yards, the dimensions for Frisco section houses weren't standard. Perhaps it had something to do with the family size for which they were built?

 

I don't believe that one can draw that conclusion based on the Beaumont and Osceola examples. In as much as each was built by a different railroad, it is no surprise that each is different. It wasn't until after the Frisco-Memphis Road that "modern" Frisco came into being, and with the merger came new car and locomotive numberings and new standards for structures. The old "heritage" structures would remain until replacement was required.

 

The plan online here is marginally legible at best. Does anyone have a copy that shows dimensions that can be read? I can guess from what we have up online, but I would rather be right.

 

A couple shots of the drawings I did of the house. I could not read the actual dimensions on the drawing, so I assume I scaled it back a little, which will make it easier to fit on a model railroad. I made it 20' deep and 30' long with 9' side walls, as it is evident from the elevations drawings that the walls are taller than 8'. I sized the windows and doors to use available Tichy parts, as they are finer than I can print, and cost less than printing them at shapeways.




Here is a farm house I designed and printed.

Construction details can be seen here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-house-3d-printed-down-on-farm-5.html

Kent in KC
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