This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. Its kinda weird to not see temporary workforce housing as some recent ph

This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. Its kinda weird to not see temporary workforce housing as some recent phenomena, especially given a recent TV show (I havn't watched it) about a particular railroad construction camp. Work that occurs in remote places requires holistic logistics for the workforce, similar to expeditionary warfare. Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States [...] chronicles the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile encampment, called "Hell on Wheels", that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels_(TV_series)