Portable Bunk House, Standard 11' x 36' - HO

Portable Bunk House, Standard 11' x 36' - HOStandard Portable Bunk House 11' x 36' Great Northern frequently used portable bunk houses to shelter section crews or other workers in field locations. Portable bunk houses could be built off site and moved to any desired location on a standard flat car. They were designed with a low roof and an 11 foot width that did not exceed normal railroad clearances. Many of these structures were built in the St. Cloud shops and delivered to the desired

The 1947 built date is not accurate because GN did not own any 40’ steel double door cars until 1955

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the Trust Certificates of which were distributed to railway shareholders to comply with the Hepburn Act

Hill bought mining property

The depot was extensively remodeled in 1922 with an expanded waiting room

In 1906 the lumber company began a logging railroad that ran south of the GN for about a mile and crossed the railroad and the Skykomish River on a wooden Howe Truss bridge just east of the GN wye

Foot print is 4 1/8 inches square in HO scale

for mineral traffic

while the conductor watched the track behind the train for drag marks or cut ties which indicated some problem with the train

and built up bolsters

Coal was moved from rail cars into the shed by wheelbarrow using transfer boards placed to span the space between the rail car and the shed

the caboose carried the markers