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Abdul Rahimov
Abdul Rahimov

Abdul Rahimov has a Ph.D. in Russian history from Stanford. He studied earlier at Harvard and grew up in Illinois in a railroad-dominated town.Rahimov prefers to use a pen name to avoid attracting unnecessary attention from railroads. He lives on the East Coast when he’s not living in a train.

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Detroit Revisted: The unbeaten path

May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 Abdul Rahimov 361 Views

Fifteen years later, I was back in Detroit. On my first, long ago trip, two weeks before 9/11, I left

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Train hopping blues: End of the Modoc Line

June 3, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 375 Views

This has been a sad summer (2012) of watching the Union Pacific prepare to swallow up the Southern Pacific. Already

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Santa Fe is known for speed

May 8, 2015May 8, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 273 Views

“The Santa Fe has a reputation for speed.” That phrase from a business article rings true. The BNSF habitually attaches

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Teaching a friend

April 19, 2015April 18, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 294 Views

After many years of solo riding, I was bringing along someone else for the first time — a coworker who

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Moffat Tunnel to Great Salt Lake

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 300 Views

I’d bought a discounted round-trip Greyhound ticket to Salt Lake, my jumping-off point.  I looked through the bus window and saw

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Hobo life is a disappearing culture

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 267 Views

Bruce came by, with plans that lifted me out of my post-injury depression. After committing sedition for a couple days,

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Cascade Range of California and Oregon

March 14, 2015March 14, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 262 Views

In another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that

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Hobo Pride: Hopping trains in the Virginias

March 9, 2015September 11, 2020 Abdul Rahimov 382 Views

After 17 months — too long a time — I was back sticking a thumb in DHS’s eye. In June

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Colorado River and the bulls of Denver

February 11, 2015February 11, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 309 Views

For three days in 2003 I had relentlessly pushed a rental car through the splendors of western Colorado, what they

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Colorado: Outlaws and blood

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 279 Views

After six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’d slept behind a

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