N scale Section House, Two Story, 30' x 30'

N Scale Section House, Two Story, 30’ x 30’ From the earliest days of the Great Northern through about 1950, most track maintenance was performed by a crew that worked an assigned ‘section’ of the railroad. As of circa 1900 single track sections were typically about 10 miles long. The work was performed by ‘section men’ under the direction of the ‘section foreman’. Even if the section headquarters was located in a town, the railroad typically supplied housing for both the foreman and his crew. In addition to housing, the section typically had a shed for tools and a hand car, or later, a gasoline powered speeder. The smallest and most common two story section house was the 16x32 foot, four-room house, a design that dated back to at least 1898. The building had a combined living and dining area, with a stove for heating and cooking, and one bedroom downstairs, with two unheated bedrooms upstairs. These houses were originally intended for the section foreman and his family, but they also