Advice or strategy for train hopping in Northern America

fucked up, n it?

That's pretty negative, why not throw him some advice if you have any.

Come over to my house the train goes by every day around 3am and 6pm and 9pm

Fine, here's some.
Don't hop trains. Those crusty people are annoying and smell like shit. If you really need to do something in your 20s to "find yourself", pick something more constructive.

Because fuck life experience huh, Don't you belong in the work, home, bored, bills, kill myself thread?

hahahahaha

How do you program it to listen to conversation?

It's not romantic. Not fun.
It's basically violent, drug addicted homeless gangs that control the rails.
You will end up a gang member, hurt, or ded.
How's that for experience bub?

Lissen chillens gather around the old hobo,there was a time, when depending on the railroad it was somewhere between not really giving a shit and actually encouraging you to ride their trains. Those days are gone forever.

Or sometimes people become homeless for whatever reason and don't want to freeze to death so try to go where it's not so shitty. But good for you for having a nice home life.

Find a crew change, bring a sleeping bag and jacket and go

I recognize that fat bitch on the right, shes chilling on Dickson st in fayetteville ar

Sheltered kids mang smh

>on Yea Forums
>calls someone sheltered

this.

Kids have some romantic vision about how fun it will be to pretend they're poor, then they won't shut the fuck up about it.

she told me she was part native american.

Yup, I remember how sheltered I was when I was homeless in Iowa in the winter. I got so many choices! Freeze to death or find any way to get my ass somewhere I could survive. Thank god my white privilege kept me warm in -15 degree weather.

You make it sound like it has to be this model radio. Any dual band handheld scanner will work. there are plenty of alternative options that do not require purchasing a low-quality Chinese radio

Crusties ruined it. They ruin everything. If you ever see one beat the living shit out of it till you’re sure it may be dead.

>baofeng
>low quality
Kek

>I got so many choices!
Actually, there are 100s better choices than riding the rails into the sunset. But whatever. UBU

THIS. make sure you have good boots, a sharp knife, a strong bag, SEVERAL lighters and at least a gallon of water. Bring whiskey to keep motherfuckers from gettin froggy on you. Offer it to them first

Yup, totally found myself in my 20s (18) when I became homeless in the north in winter. It's almost like unless you're friends with someone that paycheck from mcD's won't let you live anywhere. Nevermind trying to find a place to clean up just to keep your job. But I'm young so I have lots of money to try to "find myself". Thank god I don't have shit parents or dead parents.

Nothing like getting robbed at the homeless shelters, so fun.

wow, it's almost like what I said totally applies to you.

Yup, It seems the most of the users leach off their parents. It's almost like , because of youtube and social media everyone knows what the chan is. It's become a place for little edgelord teens to hang out.

Much better than getting stabbed on a train.

Are you really that retarded and spoiled? I'm 37 now and that is in my past. You made it very clear that you're still just some high school faggot so feel free to fuck off and take daddy's beamer.

Thanks for the input capt. down syndrome. I'll make sure to look you up when I want to see a neet taken care of by his family.

>37
loser

Any stories?

>Are you really that retarded and spoiled?
No, you retarded faggot. My point was that what I said obviously doesn't apply to you or to anyone who uses train hopping as a means to get away from a bad situation.
I was trying to highlight the fact that most people who go on the internet to get advice for train hopping are probably disgusting crusties who are doing it for fun.

6 acres, I make $4100 a month. Life started hard but I made it my bitch. Can you say as much little boy?

you're 37 and bragging to people on Yea Forums you're fucking retarded

Soo, he was behind of all that..?

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Nah brah. Seriously, jump on that train.
Go south in winter and go north in summer.

Don't fucking do it.

t. former Amtrak conductor

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But at no point did "disgusting crusties who are doing it for fun" ever come up. You had OP asking about how to ride the rails, you made fun of him. I made fun of you. You got butthurt. Lots of people use deactivated phones to search the internet, Riding the rails as an extreme thing was gone back in 2008. Some time people actually need real help not to be told to pay for it. You are truly a garbage human and I hope I never meet anyone related to you.

Oh no!! My feelings are so hurt!! It's almost like I come back here to talk to the new retards.

That wasn't me. I was homeless but I changed that.

Have you killed anyone hopping

>not to be told to pay for it.

You're a special kind of stupid

There's some recentish vice report about it. The guys they talk to say it's a lot harder now than in the past, but you're less likely to get your ass beat and just get taken to jail instead.

tuck and roll

Get it man.

I just doubt that OP actually needs to train hop, but rather just wants to do it for fun. Maybe I'm wrong. Don't take it so personally, this thread isn't about you.

The best way to get onto a train as a train hopper is to stand right in front of it as it comes to you. You’ll be hitting the road in no time.

1. Find train
2. Hop on it

Not too hard if you arent a braindead junkie. Some kinda cheap scanner radio like a baofeng is nice but not completely necessary only really useful for listening to them talk if they've spotted you or if you really know your shit on train schedules. Other than that it's pretty basic, freight trains only, don't even think about messing with passenger trains, get on as they are leaving yards and off right before they enter them, getting pinned down in a yard full of people who want to take you to jail is a bad fuckin time, if you're trying to make miles you want "intermodal" trains, those are the ones that make the long hauls, they usually are really fuckin long and have a lot of shipping containers on them. Which cars to ride - either the well cars that carry shipping containers if you can find ones with solid floors in the wells, or the grain cars with the holes in them. Mainly something where you can be pretty much out of sight of anyone glancing over the train. Things to have - #1 is water. You will die without it. If you bail in some godforsaken place for whatever reason, you will probably die without water. And also trains don't have drinking fountains so you need water for the entire stretch you're riding, refill in-between rides. A backpack for putting your water jug in is very nice to have. Earplugs. You want to keep your hearing I assume so bring fucking earplugs. Trains are loud as shit.

Good gettin

oldfag ama
road 1000s of miles in my 20s

You got any good stories old timer? What color's your skank?

Cont. Stay in cover in populated areas and around large bridges. Railroad companies are on the lookout for riders and if you are spotted they will stop the train and search the entire thing for you which fucking sucks. This should go without saying but don't be a retard, people get killed riding all the time, even lifetimers. Don't go jumping around over gaps and shit while it's moving. Another obvious thing not to do but happens all the time, leave your shit on the train and it takes off without you. That is bad fucking news. Backpack is never on a train without you. Snacks are nice to have but you don't need them. And don't risk your life to avoid capture, be careful and try to avoid it for sure, it does fucking suck, but at the end of the day it's gonna be some relatively minor shit compared to dying.

Basically don't be a fucking mongoloid and be somewhat prepared and you'll be fine, it's not glamorous but it will get you places.

Didn't kill them but was a party to it yes.

About 30 years ago. Was serving as a conductor on the Coast Starlight. A Southern Pacific train full of refrigerator and box cars rear-ended a Union Pacific train loaded with everything from empty flatbeds cars to propane tankers. Thankfully the propane cars were at the front and almost totally untouched but it threw debris and broken cars all over the place (including the Amtrak line). My train was only a few minutes away when the crash occurred and we immediately threw on the emergency brakes and managed to stop about 100 feet from the half of a flatbed car that was snapped in two. I immediately grabbed a flashlight and ran up ahead to see if anyone was hurt. The crew of the SP train had managed to jump clear at the last second and the UP crew were playing cards in a nearby shack so at first, we thought no one was hurt.

That is until I heard cries for help coming from the wreckage. After some digging, we found three kids. Turned out they had managed to break to break the locks on one of the empty box cars and jump on board and had been riding it for the past two days through nearly a half-dozen marshaling yards without being noticed. One of them was killed instantly when the car caved in and the other two were pinned in the wreckage for five hours until the firefighters managed to free them. One of them died later and the other was severely crippled, probably for life.

Oh yeah and the crashed caused a bunch of the refrigerator units to fail which made the stench overpowering.

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back in the day you could ride in the rear unit, just don't mess around with anything.

>but you're less likely to get your ass beat and just get taken to jail instead

Can confirm that UP cops regularly beat the shit out of hobos and got away with it in the 90s.

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How many times were you caught?

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I wasn't ever a rider, I was a homebum; I just know the Folks, yknow?

Cont. This is like a model of a grainer and that whole I circled is where you are gonna lurk in until you get out of a populated area. Rear facing is preferable.

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*Northbound Coast Starlight, which meant that rail traffic was held up state-wide for days afterward.

Jesus, Logan, Did you go to the DC Universe when you died?

Pic related is the other best option, it's a well car, and depending on how the containers are arranged there should be a gap you can get in between the end of the container and the end of the well. Rear facing is again preferable. Be careful though, some well cars are "suicide" and don't have a floor in them, so don't go blindly leaping into the well of a moving car, check.

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>moxie marlinspike
thank you

Final one,
Saw some of the other stuff posted about being homeless and how rough it is, and yeah Op, if you haven't done that before, haven't lived off nothing long term, riding isn't gonna make it any easier and that life will be really fucking rough. Youll be living around a lot of really fucked up desperate people with very little to love for and you'll be one of them. But if you just need to get to another town and you got the skills and credit or whatever to get a job and apartment, just be friendly but distant to anyone you meet, if you have any gear or cash or whatever don't let on you have it and just move along. If you are doing this as something fun to do, I'mma be real it's not anything super fun, it's loud and dirty and dangerous. It's a very good utilitarian way of getting somewhere for nothing, and that's what I've used it for, but as an adventure, it kinda sucks. Go backpacking it something. Godspeed OP.

That reminds me of a similar story. A long time back, I venture around the 60s or 70s a little girl and her Dad maybe stowed away on a fright heading up far north to escape the law in their town. The Dad had stolen clothing for the winter, a hat or something or other. I guess they figured they had a better shot living up north but they were followed aboard by some kind of magician. The story goes that after causing a real scene, the trio escaped the train but were tracked down to a warming house were the Dad was found reduced to not much more than a puddle. The kid was heart broken and the Magician had a nasty cackle as the authorities took him away. I don't want to think about what he did or what that kid saw. Gives me chills.

dozens, learn which yards are "hot" and stay out of em

so the fact that he is a magician makes this a more horrifying story

Fucking wizards

how the fuck are they obese??

I do actually need a train hoppers advice I'm unfamiliar with where I'm at I'm in Texas rn at a library looking for old shit since u fags r no help

They arent, they are heroin addicts or larp as such, all crust punks I've ever met have been fucking skellys.

See and his chain of advice.

>a little girl and her Dad maybe stowed away on a fright heading up far north to escape the law in their town

I wonder what law they could have possibly broken...

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Absolutely, folks who mess around with occult have strange wisdom. It wasn't so much the fact that he was a Magician though. The tenacity to follow the struggling people on a cross country voyage in refrigerated cars over, apparently, a hat, just a harrowing story.

Gay /x/posting fuck off

Thx

No problem compadre

Something about a snow ball fight. It's been awhile since I heard the whole story.

>Throw away all advantages and opportunities given to you

fuck, when do my white people advantages kick in? My life fucking sucks lmao

cbf to go through all the thread but solar powered cell charger, extra portable battery, go on tons of forums to find people who are into it too, sometimes they let you crash at their place and will hook you up with supplies. good luck, don't get caught.

>bag of doritos $5
>healthy meal $20

happy birthday.

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It has literally always been a place for little edgelord teens. It was fucking founded by little edgelord teens.

>literally two pounds of vegetables 3 dollars

Mhm, and how long do they last unrefrigerated?
Don't forget that homeless people also generally don't have access to a fridge or oven.

Well you take the train to get to the oven.

>and the other was severely crippled, probably for life.
disability check, nice

jej

you aint middle class thats why

1) Don't trust anyone
2) Prepare to be preyed upon
3) Take advantage of these types 4) Carry some kind of weapon. Club and/or knife
5) Carry notes for an emergency or accomodation
6) Be prepared to slog. You might have to cross country to get to another station or work to earn some money like washing dishes

Leave MOST of your dignity back home. Giving up dignity and washing dishes in a shitty little chinese restaurant for $60 is one thing but prostituting yourself to greasy truckers and hobos is another. Hope it helps OP

I don’t know how I would live on so little.

No one got the Frosty the Snowman parallel. +1 for the feels.