Section house (railway)

A railway section house is a building or house-like structure located near or next to a section of railroad used for housing railroad workers, or for the storing and maintenance of equipment for a section of railroad. Section houses were used mainly from the 1890s to the 1960s. By the 1970s, section houses were being slowly phased out. In Canada section houses were usually located right across from the railway station.

Examples

United States

Alaska

Potter Section House, Potter, Alaska, now housing a small museum with a rotary snow plow and crew cars, located south of Anchorage, Alaska.
Whitney Section House, built in 1917 in Wasilla, Alaska.

Arizona

Benson Section House, built by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880s–'90s in Benson, Arizona.
Elgin Section House, Elgin, Arizona, built for the now-abandoned Benson-to-Nogales mainline of the New Mexico & Arizona Railroad (later Southern Pacific).
Patagonia Railroad Section Foreman Residence, built next to the Patagonia Depot in 1904 by New Mexico & Arizona Railroad and moved to its present location in Patagonia, Arizona in 1964.
Skull Valley Section House, built in the 1920s in Skull Valley, Arizona.
Wickenburg Section House, built by Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1925 in Wickenburg, Arizona.

Kansas

Kansas Pacific Railway Section House, an 1879 stone railroad superintendent's residence, one of only two remaining Kansas Pacific Railroad structures. Wallace, Kansas.

Oregon

Maupin Section Foreman's House, built in 1910 in Maupin, Oregon. Now used as museum commemorating the Deschutes Railroad War

Gallery

Potter Section House in Alaska.
Section house for the New Mexico & Arizona Railroad, Elgin, Arizona. The railroad line ran just to the right of the large porch, approximately where the large cottonwood tree now stands.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway section house in Wickenburg, Arizona.
Southern Pacific section foreman's house in Benson, Arizona.
1925 section house and 1898 depot in Skull Valley, Arizona.
Maupin Section Foreman's House in Maupin, Oregon.

External links

True Tales from a CPR Section House

Railway infrastructure

Permanent way	Permanent way (history) Permanent way (current) Railroad tie/Sleeper Rail fastening system Track ballast Rail profile Fishplate Breather switch Datenail Axe ties Ladder track Baulk road Cant Minimum radius Track transition curve Clip and scotch

Trackwork and track structures	Junction Wye Railroad switch Gauntlet track Railway electrification system Third rail Overhead lines Guide bar Track gauge Track geometry Railway turntable Water crane Track pan Rail track Tramway track Classification yard Rail yard Siding Passing loop Balloon loop Headshunt Refuge siding Dual gauge Roll way

Signalling and safety	Derail Railway signalling Signalling control Wayside horn Railway signal Interlocking Level crossing Buffer stop Catch points Loading gauge Structure gauge Block post Train stop Signal bridge

Buildings	Railway station Station building Railway station layout Station clock Train shed Goods shed Motive power depot Roundhouse Railway platform

Railway track layouts

Running lines	Single track Passing loop Double track Quadruple track Crossover

Rail sidings	Balloon loop Headshunt Refuge siding Rail yard Classification yard

Junctions	Flying junction Level junction Double junction Facing and trailing Grand union Wye Switch / turnout / points Swingnose crossing Level crossing

Stations	Railway platform Side platform Island platform Bay platform Split platform Terminal station Balloon loop Spanish solution Cross-platform interchange Interchange station

Hillclimbing	Horseshoe curve Zig Zag / Switchback Spiral

Track geometry	Track gauge Ruling gradient Minimum curve radius Cant Cant deficiency

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Section house (railway)

Examples

United States

Gallery

See also

External links