No.365
What would you say is the most important thing to remember when train-hopping, anon?
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No.366
>>365Don't jump in front of the train
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No.367
Jump in front of the train
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No.369
>>365Trains are more afraid of you than you are of them. If one charges you, stand your ground and raise your arms to make yourself appear bigger, it will back off.
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No.400
>>365Probably not the important thing to remember, but do remember that now days train jumping is illegal and you can get fined. So don't get caught.
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No.405
>>400And railroad cops have a reputation for tenderizing their arrestees, if you know what I mean.
Saw a doc once where a hopper was going through the mountains and was freezing because muh altitude. Dress warmly if you try such a crazy thing, and remember, there is a wireless and video in many places now.
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No.441
>>365practice getting on and off a moving vehicle
top human running speed with backpack is under 7 mph
also - try the overhead bars at a playground with a 35 lb backpack to get an idea of your grip - to tighten up try stacking fist-size rock = 1 lb then work up - always stay within the nrange of your grip
plenty of water and dry snacks
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No.455
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No.459
As an experienced trainhopper, lemme just say this to anyone who happens to wander to this thread:
Don't listen to anything anyone before me has posted. For instance
>>441This person has clearly never hopped a fucking train.
Only advice I will give is don't try hopping without someone experienced. If you can't find someone experienced, don't do it. You'll just fuck up, hurt yourself or die, and blow up the rails for the rest of us.
Fucking oogles.
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No.462
>>459you are shitting me man
sterling colorado
galesburg illinois
raso arizona
steins new mexico
ogden to cheyenne
valentine texas
hutchinson kansas
I can understand why
had a small thread on masterchan before
tell us n00bz some of your stories and I got a few hair-raisers
maybe even save some children's lives
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No.463
>>459I'll Start
2 El Paso Texas Stories
1] 3 PM slightly drizzly day waiting at the East Yard Limit down by the Tank Farms - train comes by about 5 mph as per Rule - they'd been la\ying down seamless replacement track and they were along the set rails - start running to catch a grain car - just get ready to grab the ladder rail - foot slips on the replacement rail - I do cartwheel, my backpack hits the truck & bounces me away from the wheels, I slip out of the straps and come into a roling standup - look back at mexican pasta bags scattered over 40 feet - grab back pack, stuff a couple things in and tie it up - see another coming up and catch it but its a flatbed and the rung is at waist level so I have to seriously exert myself to pull up past the balance point to hump the floor and roll on
2] Westboud this trip across from the AmTrak and Mission - waiting around with a few dozen wets - train comes by I grab it easy, still standing when some Santa Fe Cop starts running along the far side yelling at me to get off - I walk over and see him catch the next car back so I let myself off onto the side I got on and see the Cop spot me but the train is already going too fast to jump off so I hit the street and wait til later that night
Lesson - Don't Ride BATSF - SoPac is Cool-ish
3] Bonus Beats - Tucson down across from the Vetern's Interchange under Palo Verde in the dark, train pulls out of the yard, I let the engine get past the overpass and start running in the shadow of the cars full bore trying to catch the next one back and I hit the frog switch marker - goes clean between my legs doesn't even graze my balls but neatly flips me over on top of the cross sign - I realize I'm not dead and push myself back upright than wait a couple cars then get on whatever, knowing when it stops out above Benson I can switch over to the one I want
So - kiddies + I Old Fag - Always wear a hat and leather gloves & good army boots!
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No.464
So people will, like, grab onto moving trains to get a free vacation? Sheesh. L
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No.465
>>464maybe. grabbing moving trains is an Advanced Skill and not for Beginners - Trial-and-Error on gaging speed and landing involves roll-outs and splashes in heavy ballast - moon steps
At the time this was my Primary Transportation since after 73 when all the Forward Recons from Nam came back there were way too many incidents of Murder & Cannibalism on both sides of the Hitch Hiking thing
Basically, I could travel around, land in a town, hit the nearest laundromat and change clothes in the bathroom, wash the dirties & walk out clean and ready to find work
Often I would take Local Buslines to towns then put a cardboard sign on my backpack saying *Want Work* and start off down the road & within an hour get a ride by a Contractor who needed help pulling concrete for a slab or foundation, etc
So it was a temporary thing that continued off-and-on up until about 2003 and even then everything was containerized so I loaded my bike onto the end of one of those conex flatbeds and went from Del Rio to Tucson
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No.466
>>465If I could afford it I would ride AmTrak Non-Stop
In the 80s I traveled around Mexico on their Decrepit System until it finally shut down - the only one now goes from Chihuahua City over the Copper Canyon Route to Los Mochis - Nice Curving Tunnels on the Pacific side
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No.467
>>466so I guess that's the end?
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No.468
>>465>after 73 when all the Forward Recons from Nam came back there were way too many incidents of Murder & Cannibalism on both sides of the Hitch Hiking thingdetails?
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