p51 posted:MELGAR posted:I know that was directed to Frank, but I don't have hobos on my layout as it takes place in the height of WW2. The draft would have been going on for a while by 1943 (with the standards severely slackened the following year after huge losses in the Pacific and Europe invasions). While it wasn't illegal everywhere (though, I found, it was in a few places) to be a transient during WW2 in America is your draft number hadn't yet been called up, people didn't really allow it as much as they'd had during the Depression.
Heck, I actually removed every able-bodied male figure from the layout that wasn't in a military or RR uniform. The only draft-age men figures on the layout now are RR employees or in the military. The rest are women, kids and old men.
Yes, but don't forget, during the war, and even just before it, there were plenty of men and women working in factories, such as the steel mills (I'm from Pittsburgh) and at plants such as Ford where cars were no longer made, in deference to them making munitions and tanks, etc. instead. In fact, as a boy, I do not recall ever seeing a man in uniform, but did see plenty of factory workers going to and from work every day.
FrankM
