A small weatherboard shack raised high on a braced timber trestle frame, the kind of elevated shelter used to watch over a rail line, yard, or waterway. The cabin has faded blue-gray plank siding, a corrugated metal roof, a brick chimney, shuttered windows, and a small storage barrel on its landing.

The tall X-braced leg structure gives it a striking silhouette and clear line-of-sight character. It makes an eye-catching lineside or industrial structure for a model railroad, a rustic set-piece for a rural or frontier diorama, or elevated terrain on a wargaming board.