Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry
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Whitney Section House (Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry)
1917. Neuser Museum Drive, mile 46.7 Parks Hwy.
In 1917 the Alaska Railroad built this section house less than 5 miles north of Anchorage, on land that is now part of Elmendorf Air Force Base. Originally housing only the section foreman and his family, the building accommodated the entire crew after the adjacent bunkhouse burned in 1934. No longer used by the railroad, the section house was moved to the fairgrounds in Palmer in 1976 and to its present site in 1991. The one-story, wood-framed building is T-shaped, with exposed rafter ends at the eaves of the gable roof.
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