Engine House, wood frame, three or two stalls, rectangular, 76' long - HO

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store is pleased to offer this HO scale kit of a Great Northern three stall 76 foot rectangular wood frame engine house. This kit is designed so that it is easy to build as a two stall house if you desire. Using blueprints from our archives, the kit is custom made for you by Hidden River Manufacturing. Great Northern owned and operated a wide variety of engine houses, a term it used to describe both arc plan structures, which are often called roundhouses, and rectangular plan structures. Engine houses of both styles protected both men and equipment from the harsh winter weather common in the northern United States. Great Northern used one, two, and three stall rectangular plan wooden engine houses most often at the ends of branch lines, particularly the ‘picket fence’ lines of North Dakota. Multiple track houses had tracks on 18’ centers with the outer walls 9’ from the centers of the outside tracks. Three track wooden engine houses