Put a few tons of broccoli in a typical boxcar in Walla Walla, Wash.

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Yes, Mr Stevens said, there were female hobos, like Boxcar Bertha of Iowa, who died about five years ago.

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It was a boxcar that would fit heads of cattle.

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But I have seen the world from a boxcar door, and I do know why once you've hopped a freight train it's killing hard to stay away.

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The boxcar media expenditures reported at year-end, support this.

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For a boxcar of widgets to make it across country, it typically has to stop and sit in rail yards waiting to get "humped, " or reshuffled, with other boxcars headed in the same direction five times.

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They had us 80 to a boxcar.

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You really are in a boxcar.

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