The Painesville Railroad Museum, 475 Railroad St., slipped back into the middle of the 1930’s on July 27, during its annual ‘Hobo Day’ in remembrance of the thousands of displaced migrants who once ...

Hobo camps or "jungles," as they were often called, grew up in the local area in the 1920s and continued into the Great Depression. A hobo can be defined as someone who illegally rides the trains ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For more than half a century, Springfield’s rail yards were a crossroads for hoboes — transient workers who traveled on freight trains in search of work, adventure, or simply a ...

There are two types of "hobo gatherings." There's the organized type and there's the type that just happen. Both take place in what's called a hobo jungle. A hobo jungle is the place where hobos ...