Old School

Through the dust cloud, I pray you notice the swaybacked building. It began life as one of Iowa's one room schoolhouses. I have personal knowledge of this particular building. It was moved to this site in the late 30's to serve as a utility shed, but also became a sort of way station as it was located between two freight lines each less than a mile from the little building. In the days of hobos riding these rails many stopped to work for food and sleep in the shed. Later, it became only a shed and in just the last few years began to sag. The chart above shows just some of the hobo signs that would have been used around the tracks to let the freight riders they could get a meal and place to sleep at the old school.

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