Standard Plan: Section House, Cold Climate, 1906

I should get the roof done tomorrow, and then I just have to scratch build the porch's from wood.


Here is a link to a brick building I designed, printed and mostly completed last week. http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/04/bennington-state-bank-bennigton-mn-in.html

 

I almost forgot the chimney, designed and printed it last night. I will stick the house on a small diorama for display. I will post more pictures on my blog when I get it done.

I just posted construction details on the gas station in the background of this picture at:
http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/04/phillips-66-mclean-tx-3d-printed-in-ho.html?m=0




Kent in KC
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Ready for the clinic at the convention this October. I am a currently working on a depot for the MoPac guys and gals. Details on it's design and construction can be seen at: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/05/frisco-section-house-3d-printed-in-ho.html

 

Kent, nice modeling.

 

See page 5 in this FEM, which shows a picture of the Pacific, MO Section House.

http://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/magazines/fem_1930_09/fem_1930_09.pdf

 

Karl, can you remember seeing a photo of the two-story version? Newburg and Dixon both had them.

 

Doug,

This is the first photo that I have seen of any section house, much less the old Frisco 2-story plan. Not many survived. As I recall, there was one extant into the '70's at Cedar Gap, and the KCCS section house lasted into the 60's, and likewise the one at East Lynn. The location of the one at East Lynne appears in my dad's notes.

http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?attachments/d518_east_lynne-jpg.3567/

It would seem that these structures, were not the subject of many photographs.

 

Section house in Seligman MO. Granted its off in the distance on the right in one picture.

 

Thanks Craig. The one in Dixon was about 100 yards from our house and was black. A very large family, named Wilson, occupied it. Mr. Wilson was the long-time section foreman for the top of Dixon Hill. The spot 2-10-2's did havoc to the rails on the hill. The section went out every morning to repair them.

 

Aged black. It appeared to have not seen a paint brush in half a century. There was also a Frisco Standard outhouse. The last time I was in Dixon, I checked the site. The weeds are very healthy where the outhouse stood. A high school classmate owns the adjacent house.

 

Jamie (unknown) and Billy Wilson was on the Dixon Section, I worked with them.

 

Billy Don Wilson was a childhood playmate. We've lost track of him. He lived in Springfield for most of his life.

 

If I'm remembering correctly, most of the Frisco frame structures had vertical siding.

Tom G.

 

Dixon's was BLACK. The only black house in town.

 

Karl recently posted a photo of the two-story house in Lebanon, MO, along with a job description of the Section Forman, on the FB "Ship It On The Frisco" page. I'll copy it here. I also scanned the cold climate drawings and pasted them into a Pages document scaled to 1:87.

 

Just for the sake of clarity, the image Lebanon Section House is not mine. It was given to Richard Crabtree, a Springfield realtor, by Ron Williams. Richard has a knack of coming up with some amazing early images of SW MO railroad railroading and early Springfield images. Rich's first thought that this was a depot, and he asked for my opinion. I opined that it was a section house, and I included the rule book responsibilities of the section gang which Rich posted on FB with the image. I took that description from a thread that I had posted on Frisco dot Org.

I hope that the admins remove the image until permission and proper citation is given.

 

This was posted on Love My Ozarks Face Book page