• Source: Section house

      • A 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. In the UK, a section house may be a building near a police station, providing collective accommodation for officers.


      Examples




      = United States

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      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
      South Carolina
      Little Mountain Section House in Little Mountain, built in 1890 by the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad


      = United Kingdom

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      A section house is a house near a police station, providing collective accommodation for officers.


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      See also


      Train station
      Section (rail transport)


      References




      External links


      True Tales from a CPR Section House

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