Actually a small town-no homeless no nothun exciting, except we kids knew to stay away from the roundhouse (where the train engines were serviced and turned around to go back) since that was where the hobos hung out. I never heard of any actual trouble with whoever might have been there hitching a ride on the freights, but oooohh stay away.
My grandma told me about them, of course she also lived through the depression and saw a lot of things.