The Box Car Kids
In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, 250.000 teenagers hopped freight trains looking for a better life down the line.The kids that didn’t like the child labor laws ran away to the rail roads and these were called the box car kids. Because of the child labor laws and instead of running in the woods they hopped on trains. These were called The Box Car Kids and what they did is they hopped on trains and they would jump on trains while they were moving. If they were moving and if you slipped it was tragic. And the girls on the trains mostly dressed as boys. If they didn’t go on disguised they got a bed and meals while on the trains. Between 1929 and 1941, 4,000,000 Americans desperate for food and lodging roamed the land. Of this number, 250,000 were teenagers who rode the rails and grew up fast in speeding boxcars, living in hobo jungles, begging on the streets and running from the police and club-wielding railroad guards.