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Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression: Routledge. ISBN 0415945755 The Great Depression - The Story of 250,000 Teenagers Who Left Home and Ride the Rails "Riding the Rails", American Experience PBS series. Conover, Ted (2001). Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. Vintage.
Riding the rods, and "riding a rod", former forms of freighthopping, by riding undercarriage of railroad car Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Riding the rail .
Riding a rail, sketched by Andrew W. Warren in November 1864. The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse." Weights or additional restraints were often added to keep the victim from falling off.
The length of the ride may seem a bit daunting, but each rail car is equipped with electric pedal assist. There is a two-person Tandem Explorer and a four-person Quad Explorer.
A term of unknown origin that refers to an itinerant worker who "rides the rails" (stowing away on freight trains unknown to the railroads) in search of work. Not to be confused with "bums", "tramps" or "yeggs" who simply ride the rails looking for an easy mark. Many Hoboes were IWW members between 1905 and 1920s.
Want to take a more leisurely trip across the country? Amtrak is now selling tickets for its temporary Floridian route, which offers a round-trip "in comfort and style" between Miami and Chicago ...
Realistically, any distinction of the FTRA as an organisation, or a count of its members, is a loose one at best, due to the circumstances inherent to rail riding, and to a transient lifestyle in general. This also speaks to the contradictory information regarding whether or not the FTRA is a well-organized criminal group.