Train hopping blues: End of the Modoc Line
This has been a sad summer (2012) of watching the Union Pacific prepare to swallow up the Southern Pacific. Already
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Hobo life is a disappearing culture
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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After 17 months — too long a time — I was back sticking a thumb in DHS’s eye. In June
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There are few experiences sadder than returning to a Western railroad yard 12 years later. In 1993, starting out of
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