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Illegally hopping a ride on a private freight car began with the invention of the train. In the United States, freighthopping became a common means of transportation following the American Civil War as the railroads began pushing westward, especially among migrant workers who became known as "hobos".
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.
Hobo culture's ethics have always been subject to disapproval from the mainstream culture; for example, hopping freight trains, an integral part of hobo life, has always been illegal in the U.S. Nonetheless, the ethics of hobo culture can be regarded as fairly coherent and internally consistent, at least to the extent that any culture's various ...
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 ...
It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. [1] He describes his experiences hopping freight trains , "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to ...
In the present day, hobos and migrant workers have often used boxcars in their journeys (see freighthopping), since they are enclosed and cannot be seen by railroad police, as well as being to some degree insulated from cold weather. [5] Hobo Code, a form of hieroglyphs used by hobos, developed as a code to give information to Hobos ...
Brodie on a "Z" Train in New Mexico, USA. Michael Christopher Brodie (born 1985), [1] also known as the "Polaroid Kid" [2] or "Polaroid Kidd", is an American photographer.From from 2004 to 2008, Brodie freighthopped across the US and photographed people he encountered, largely train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters, and hobos.
Gutter punks are generally homeless and transient. Many travel by alternative means of transportation such as illegally riding freight trains ("freighthopping") or hitchhiking. [1] [10] The number of gutter punks who travel to various U.S. cities is in the thousands, and they often congregate in major U.S. cities. [10]