The Bonus Army wasn't alone on the roads back home. Millions of people from all walks of life had taken to the road looking for brighter prospects in the next town. There was little else to do but move when there were no jobs or relief available locally. And if there was nothing available in the next town, there was always the next state. If one could dodge the railway bulls (police) and get onto a boxcar without getting killed, freight trains offered an easy and mostly free way to get anywhere in the country. Frank Marquart recalls how crowded the trains could be: "Every Erie freight train was loaded with hoboes in those days. They rode in empty boxcars, on top of boxcars, in gondolas, on the running boards of oil tankers, and on flat cars."