Going to School in a Freight Car 



The Southern Pacific 

 Railway Company pro- 

 vides a school on wheels 

 for the children of work- 

 men employed in con- 

 struction work through 

 the west. As the gang 

 moves from place to place 

 their families move with 

 them and the school car 

 with its teacher goes along, 

 so that the children never 

 lose a day of school work 



Exterior of the school car 

 and a view of the pupils 

 and teacher. They seem 

 to think it nothing at all 

 to be able to have arith- 

 metic in one town, gram- 

 mar in another and geog- 

 raphy all over the country. 

 School "keeps" however 

 inclement the weather, 

 for they are likely to en- 

 counter rain in one town 

 and sunshine in the next 



