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The [[Pacific Electric]] interurban system in the [[Los Angeles]] area was constructed by a workforce which was largely made up of traqueros.
 
Many traqueros lived in characteristic [[shanty town]]s of old boxcars which could be seen throughout the U.S. Southwest, in some places right up to the middle of the 20th century.

The [[Watts, Los Angeles, California|Watts]] section of Los Angeles originated as a traquero settlement. The twin cities of [[Coachella, California|Coachella]] and [[Indio, California|Indio]] in Southern California were founded by traqueros in the early 1900s.
 
==See also==
* [[Gandy dancer]]
 
==References==