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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than a week after a homeless camp in Springfield was bulldozed by railroad employees, a camp located just north of it was put on notice by police Wednesday evening. The homeless people living ...

The Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad is offering a family-friendly Hobo Camp today and Sunday. The event will include tales from hobos of riding the rails, a train ride and a campfire. A bluegrass band ...

Years ago, there was a “hobo camp” near Willard’s in east O’Fallon, the area around what is now the Seven Hills Road Bridge. Here is an O’Fallon Progress story from 1928 telling of an incident that ...