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 dagnytaggart
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< on 9/29/2010 1:03 AM >
|  | | | Hey everyone,
I joined about 3 years ago but kinda forgot about it. For some reason I'm back here, and I thought it might be a cool resource! I'm leaving in a few days for a train trip across the US. I'm going to be hopping freight trains with a few friends. Leaving from Philly, going to Minneapolis via Cumberland, MD, and Chicago. Just wanted to put that out there, and if anyone has cool advice for these cities, or others en route, I'd love to hear it!
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Ammoclip
      
Location: North Georgia, USA
Gender: Male
Chuck U. Farley
| |  | Re: hobo train trip!
<Reply # 1 on 9/29/2010 1:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by dagnytaggart
Hey everyone,
I joined about 3 years ago but kinda forgot about it. For some reason I'm back here, and I thought it might be a cool resource! I'm leaving in a few days for a train trip across the US. I'm going to be hopping freight trains with a few friends. Leaving from Philly, going to Minneapolis via Cumberland, MD, and Chicago. Just wanted to put that out there, and if anyone has cool advice for these cities, or others en route, I'd love to hear it!
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Now that is something I've always wanted to do! Sounds like alot of fun.
If you see an incorrect GPS entry in the DB, FIX IT! |
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SaraBellum
  
Berkshire Hunt
Location: Villa Villekulla
Gender: Female
Coming to a cinema near you this summer.
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<Reply # 2 on 9/29/2010 2:08 AM >
| | | | Good luck, be safe, and have fun!
[01:47:56] <GreyDeath> Sara just stares her enemies into submission and eventually madness
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blacklines
Location: the red stick.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 3 on 9/29/2010 4:28 AM >
| | | | the roseville yard in minneapolis has been good to me. lots of good bagel dumpsters in the cities. hard times has good food and is open nearly 24/7 and is friendly to transients. right around the corner is midwest mountaineering, perfect place to pickup a replacement p38 can opener (you know, the one that youre SURE you put back in your pack somewhere in a jungle in chicago??) If you get really stuck in the TC, drop me a PM if you can, I might be able to put you in touch with people who can help.
best of luck, it'll be great
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\/adder
 
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
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<Reply # 4 on 9/29/2010 4:50 AM >
| | | | Jealous.
...just make it back home or somewhere warm before it gets too cold!
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 5 on 9/30/2010 12:16 PM >
| | | | Bring protection. Trainyard security has been known to beat up people they catch.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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consecrated
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
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<Reply # 6 on 9/30/2010 1:59 PM >
| | | | Sounds excellent! Good luck and watch for bulls!
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dagnytaggart
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<Reply # 7 on 9/30/2010 4:25 PM >
| | | | Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone!
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TheSolomon
Location: Mill Creek, WA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 8 on 10/5/2010 7:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by dagnytaggart
Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone!
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Good luck! And I love your S/N BTW. 
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Corrugated
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<Reply # 9 on 10/7/2010 3:28 AM >
| | | | Watch out for Project X out there Dagny..
You're probably already back now though..this is still a great site about hobos, trains and everything that goes along with that stuff..from the past right up to the present;
http://www.northbankfred.com/
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uLiveAndYouBurn
Location: Beyond
Anarchocommunist
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<Reply # 10 on 10/8/2010 11:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
Bring protection. Trainyard security has been known to beat up people they catch.
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I've never heard one story from a real life person who has ridden freight about getting beat up by a bull. Townie cops maybe, but not bulls. The only place I've seen that is in the movies.
"Aint nothin' to it but to do it"
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blacklines
Location: the red stick.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 11 on 10/11/2010 4:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by uLiveAndYouBurn
I've never heard one story from a real life person who has ridden freight about getting beat up by a bull. Townie cops maybe, but not bulls. The only place I've seen that is in the movies.
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i can say first hand that it does happen, but I would qualify that with the fact that when I have seen it happen it was because the person on the wrong end off the ass beating was being a jackass and or threatening to the bull. Yes bulls can be assholes, and ninety-nine percent of the time they will pull you off of your train, they generally aren't interested in violence unless you provoke them. Just so everyone is clear, I'm not saying the beatings ive seen delivered by bulls were justified, only that they weren't unprovoked.
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 12 on 10/12/2010 2:11 PM >
| | | | I saw a documentary on it a few years ago, and the people they interviewed said it happens all the time, and happened to them.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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dagnytaggart
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<Reply # 13 on 10/20/2010 2:11 PM >
| | | | update: i got caught (sort of) pulling a rookie move in chicago. the bull was a jerk, but i don't think he would've beat me up. also, i'm a girl. girls don't often get beaten up by railroad bulls. probably a quarter as often as boys do, which is still pretty seldom, except when provoked as stated above. most of the dangers of riding freight trains stem from being totally wasted, which i have never and will never be on, around, or waiting for a train. every single war story i've ever heard about losing limbs, getting beaten up, getting fucked with at ALL started with, "well, we were really drunk in in the yard when..." or "we had just finished our case of 40s when..." etc.
@splumer: the documentary you saw... was it about old hobos from the 20s-60's? if that's the case, that makes more sense.
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dinanm3atl
Durty South
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<Reply # 14 on 10/20/2010 4:58 PM >
| | | | Story time?
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dsankt
Location: live and in the fresh
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<Reply # 15 on 10/20/2010 6:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by dinanm3atl
Story time?
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blacklines
Location: the red stick.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 16 on 10/20/2010 8:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by dagnytaggart
update:
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which yard in chicago was it?
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 17 on 10/22/2010 12:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by dagnytaggart
@splumer: the documentary you saw... was it about old hobos from the 20s-60's? if that's the case, that makes more sense.
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No, this was current. I think it was on MTV or something like that. It was about young hipsters riding the rails because it was ironic, or something.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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consecrated
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
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<Reply # 18 on 10/22/2010 7:13 PM >
| | | | So... you got caught...then what?
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blacklines
Location: the red stick.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 19 on 10/22/2010 11:39 PM >
| | | | sounds like she/he got caught, decided that it wasnt worth the risk to try again in the same yard and is either in chicago still, or hitch-hiked/took the dirty dog onto greener pastures. My advice? Head up to minneapolis and head out on the highline ;)
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