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A freight train with freight hoppers in Mexico. It is estimated that yearly between 400,000 and 500,000 migrants—the majority of whom are from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—hop freight trains in the effort to reach the United States. [7] [8] The freight trains are known as La Bestia. Mauritania
Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border. The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security ...
The Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA) is a national group who moves about America by freight hopping ("catching out") in railroad cars, particularly in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, and have sometimes been linked to crimes and train derailments.
Train surfing (also known as train hopping or train hitching) is typically a reckless, dangerous, and illegal act of riding on the outside of a moving train, tram, or other forms of rail transport. In a number of countries, the term 'train hopping' is used synonymously with freight hopping , which means riding on the outside of a freight train ...
A Mexican railway operator announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt ...
Thousands of migrants riding atop railway cars in Mexico this week or waiting in mile-long lines by the tracks to hitch a ride to the U.S. have triggered the closure of one U.S. border crossing ...
Two men riding underneath a freight train, 1894. While there have been drifters in every society, the term became common only after the broad adoption of railroads provided free, though illegal, travel by hopping aboard train cars. With the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, many discharged veterans returning home began to hop freight ...
What’s this about freight trains in the evening? According to the MBTA, Massachusetts Coastal Railroad will be moving its freight operations to 5 p.m. to midnight weekdays starting Monday, March 11.