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.

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.

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