For more than half a century, Springfield’s rail yards were a crossroads for hoboes — transient workers who traveled on freight trains in search of work, adventure, or simply a ...

"I don't know — maybe it's everybody's urge to get free," Hobo Tom said. "It's the freedom of the road and getting out there and doing what you please." Hobo Tom, also know as Tom Curtis of Antwerp, ...

Patriot Rail Company LLC (Patriot Rail) on Aug. 22 announced that it has assumed ownership and operations of the Hobo Railroad and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, located in Lincoln, N.H., and ...

He s rubbed shoulders with the likes of Boxcar Debbie, Florida Boy Blue, Pinky and, of course, Road Hog USA, who robbed a bank and gave the money to the homeless. His own name is Frog, nothing more, ...

Chad Thompson said he’s picked up a few tricks to brewing hobo or cowboy coffee. While a small crowd steadily gathered by the railroad tracks at the end of 32nd Street, he manned a can of it over a ...

Colleen "Crash" Burke of St. Paul is the country's reigning hobo queen, crowned at Britt, Iowa's Hobo Days, an annual gathering that has been drawing active train riders, along with retired riders and ...

THEY found the Hardrock Kid under a tree in Ogden, Iowa back in 1977. He was on his way to the National Hobo Convention in Britt when he stopped for lunch and quietly passed away. In hobo vernacular: ...

"There's nothing nobler than to put up with a few inconveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedom." -- From "The Vanishing American Hobo" by Jack Kerouac Hobo poet James "Jimbow ...

INDEPENDENCE -- Benita Sankey could not resist her curiosity. The second-grader was already late for class. But when she saw the giant steel beast lined up at the Lamont train depot, she needed a ...

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