Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars
My dad did that for real for a couple years during the depression. He was 1 of many thousands of men riding the rails, going anywhere that there were rumors of work to be had. They weren't hobos, though. A hobo isn't looking for work. He's just a bum. These men wanted work. Dad ended his wanderings as a farm hand in Idaho where he met my mother, then joined the navy a few months before Pearl Harbor.
