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In our hobo jungle, we’ll learn about the role ramshackle hobo home slapped together from these travelers play in America’s railroad heritage through a series of hands-on, educational activities, that both youth and adults can participate in. Many of the activities will be based around a hobo theme with participants acting as the hobos. We’ll be cooking up Hobo Stew for dinner. Youth and adults will work together to construct and their own Hoover Shacks – the whatever they could scrounge (we will use corrugated cardboard and duct tape). The shack will be your sleeping quarters for the evening. We’ll also discuss what it was like to work on the Transcontinental Railroad, explore contemporary freight trains and tell some great railroad tales.