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Dear Mike,
My dissertation concerned Pacific Electric railroad workers and a "section house" in which they were housed by PE. I have detailed plans of PE boarding houses as well as Census data on where certain types of workers were being housed (based on their ethnicity, race, job description, and marital status among other things). Some of the Pacific Electric work order documents I accessed for my dissertation discussed the placement of workers in particular types of housing situations. I am happy to send you a copy of it if you would like. Just drop me an email off list.
Best,
Stacey
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Dr. Stacey Lynn Camp
Director, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Idaho
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Subject: Railroad Workers
Hello Histarchers. I am undertaking some research regarding railroad
workers on the Central Pacific Railroad ca. 1870s-1880s. I have plans for
section stations where buildings designated as bunk houses show the predominant
size being 16 x 24 ft, with perhaps half that number at 16 x 22 ft and
even fewer at 18 x 20 and 18 x 22. Other smaller and larger sizes exist, but
there are very few of them.
Can someone suggest what number of railroad workers might be housed in such
building sizes? It has been suggested that I might consider that it
takes 6 workers to move a length of steel rail as a starting point, but if
someone has good data on this, I would appreciate hearing.
Thanks.
Mike Polk
Sagebrush Consultants
Ogden, Utah
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