because they are cheaper than cube cars
Some people, without doubt, live in boxcars. There are some that are even worse off.
If 31 are boxcars then 91-31 = 60 are NOT boxcars. So 60/91 of the train are not boxcars.
Boxcars are the last car on trains. usually they are red.
"Boxcars" is a slang term for double six on a pair of dice.
Bacillus anthracis is the Gram positive bacilli nicknamed "boxcars" due to its distinctive morphology resembling rectangular boxcars when viewed under the microscope.
The cast of Empty Boxcars - 2011 includes: Serifa Dela Cruz as Ana
follow the rubric.
It is a 25.5 feet by 8.5 feet wooden box that goes on train tracks to transport Jews into concentration camps. these boxcars has small breathing holes in it cover in barbed wires. in each on these boxcars carried about 100-120 people in them leaving them with no food, water, or no waste buckets. many died by starvation and diseases. not a lot of Jews survived the boxcars movement
By getting in a boxcar. They would be transported by boxcars (look up: BOXCAR on google) and see the actual boxcars they were transported in.
Boxcars are usually used to transport livestock. The Nazis used them to transport Jews and other minorities to the concentration camps.
In The Grapes of Wrath, boxcars also symbolize the migrants' sense of impermanence and displacement as they travel in search of work. Additionally, the boxcars serve as a physical representation of the migrants' shared struggle and collective experience during the Great Depression.
Those boxcars or freight cars could normally carry about 50 people comfortably, but as we know, these people were treated inhumanly, therefore, about 100 people were shoved into these boxcars along with children and elderly people.