Life of a hobo Mark Nichols — aka ‘Hobo Shoestring’ — finds freedom, danger in train hopping Robert Sorrell Jun 9, 2019 Updated Jun 9, 2019 0 6 min to read ...

A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you're inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side.

"Ran into Tin Cup at the Four Mile. He rode in on the Union Pacific a couple days ago.” I laugh, “He’s still train-hopping? The man is a champion.” I have an old Nevada friend on the phone. He came ...

Dancer vividly remembers the first time he hopped a freight train. It was a warm October day in 2020, and he’d stationed himself north of Longmont, Colorado, near the railway yard, where the train ...

James Stobie was the most famous train-hopping hobo on the internet. He rode the rails in a way that was reminiscent of a desperate man searching for work at every city he could find during the Great ...