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01:00He works and wanders, also learns and in his heart he always yearns to see beyond the river's turns, the view from rolling cars.
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04:15Bir sonraki yapınca, bir şekilde kullanırsanız.
04:19You call your own shots.
04:21As you see fit for yourself.
04:25I don't own a car right now.
04:27I don't like riding Greyhound buses because I always get lucky.
04:30I always draw the wild card.
04:31I get some big old gal sitting next to me and wants to fall asleep with her head in my lap.
04:35And I can't smoke a cigarette or drink a beer, I can do this in a boxcar.
04:38I've rode freight trains all my life because I just love to do it.
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08:00Şarkıda için çok iyi.
08:03Birinci yıl önce'da bir tanıştık bir tanıştık.
08:08Birinci yılına baktık.
08:10İlköyledi ve bir tanıştık.
08:12Bir tanıştık.
08:14Ve bu kadar da var.
08:16Ve bu tanıştık.
08:18Bu tanıştık.
08:20Bu tanıştık.
08:22Ve bu tanıştık.
08:24So we said, let's do it.
08:26Next thing you know, we're on our way to Nashville.
08:29Well, I started riding freight trains
08:32as a kind of a recreational boyish adventure
08:34when I was about 15.
08:36And I rode pretty hard for several years,
08:39finally coming to rest at about 21 or 22.
08:42Well, the first freight train I rode,
08:44I was a kid about 15 years old
08:47and I wanted to get home from Minnesota down into Iowa
08:51and I didn't want to wait for my father
08:53to come up there to get me, so I rode a freight train.
08:56The first true hobo trip I ever took
08:59was when my brother Hopalong Chet and I
09:03were going back to our grandfather's 90th reunion
09:06and we rode from Barstow, California
09:09to the East Coast to Boston.
09:11It took us eight days and 13 different train connections
09:15and from that moment on we were hooked.
09:18I decided to make a documentary film
09:20and it was mostly the film started out as an excuse for me
09:24to figure out how to get on a freight train.
09:26So when I finally took my first ride,
09:30it was everything that I had imagined it might be
09:35and it was pretty much an immediate addiction.
09:39I've been doing this since the age of 13 years old.
09:42That's, I'm telling you, the real McCoy.
09:46A friend of mine used to work for Canadian National
09:48up in Montreal and he knew I liked trains a lot.
09:52I'd always like trains going way back to when I was a little kid.
09:55And he said, you know, you might think about
09:59jumping on trains to get around.
10:01I mean, you like to travel around a lot and you like trains
10:04and that was sort of the beginning of it
10:06and I took it from there.
10:08I think the first time was an old oil spur up there
10:11where I used to live in Oildale,
10:13but the first long trip I took was from Bakersfield to Fresno
10:17in the old SP.
10:19At the age of 12 or 13, I was living near Philadelphia
10:27and with a partner a year older, we bummed our way
10:36all the way to the Canadian border
10:39and all the way south to Florida.
10:47Every year, at a different location alongside a mainline railroad,
10:52our National Hobo Association sponsors the Hobo Poetry and Music Festival.
10:58This year's site is charming Marquette, Iowa,
11:01on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.
11:04Playing the guitar and singing the melody.
11:06Oh, and music has always been a central component of hobo life.
11:10They'd sing of their old homes, their old loves, their work and their trains.
11:15They'd play guitars, mandolins and banjos
11:19and simpler instruments like gin whistles, harmonicas and Jews' hearts.
11:24The boss set me a-driving spikes, the sweat was enough to blind me.
11:47The boss, he didn't like my pace, so I left my jaw behind me.
11:52I climbed aboard an old freight train, round the country traveled.
11:57The mysteries of a hobo's life to me were soon unraveled.
12:02Yes, and the Jungle Telegraph goes out to hobos and hobos at heart
12:07in every corner of America.
12:09And they come from all nooks and crannies.
12:12They arrive by various modes of conveyance, many by car, truck or motorhome,
12:17and, of course, the freight train.
12:22Oh, the big rock candy mountain.
12:25There's a land so fair and bright
12:27where the boxcars all are empty and you sleep out every night.
12:31Where the handouts grow on bushes and the sun shines every day
12:35on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
12:37and the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
12:39in the big rock candy mountain.
12:42This fun-filled event brings out the free spirit of the hobo
13:01that lives within us all.
13:03And everyone is encouraged to partake in the wide variety of family activities.
13:15This retired hobo is being hounded by his alter ego
13:18to return to the rails.
13:20We could hop an extra west and head out toward the coast
13:23or maybe take the valley route with the river as our host.
13:26You always liked the scenery on the Colorado run
13:29or the smell of hay as the boxcars weighed in the autumn Kansas sun.
13:33He said we never rode the Chesapeake or the seaboard or the Sioux
13:36and what about the cotton belt? That promise came from you.
13:39You said we'd ride the Lehigh in the Wabash Cannonball
13:42and you absolutely promised we'd ride New England in the fall.
13:46How long can I resist the call? I really couldn't say.
13:49But the inner hobo's argument gets stronger every day.
13:52Now, I'm not one for idle talk, but I want the world to know
13:56that if I hear that whistle one more time, I just might up and go.
14:00Early in the morning and it looked like rain.
14:06Around the bend coming past the train.
14:08Under the camp was Casey Jones.
14:10A good engineer but he dead and gone.
14:12Dead and gone, dead and gone.
14:14A good engineer but he dead and gone.
14:16Well, Casey Jones was a brave engineer.
14:22He told his firemen not to fear.
14:24All he needed was a water and coal.
14:26Put your head out to wind to see the drivers roll.
14:28Hey, yeah, the drivers roll.
14:30Put your head out to wind to see the drivers roll.
14:32Trains are marvelous contraptions under any circumstance.
14:42They are unreal shimmering steel creatures that are almost alive.
14:47Fire breathing monsters with intense undulating tails.
14:51So what is it that lures a hobo to mount these beasts again and again?
14:57And being that I like to play music, you know,
14:59there's nothing finer than sort of like the rhythm, you know.
15:02You're in tune with the rhythm, not only the rails,
15:04but I get in tune with the rhythm of waters that the trains go by.
15:08The speed, the power of the train, all those really, they really turn me on.
15:15The freedom, not getting away from everything, getting away from everything.
15:19Not feeling like I've got to be responsible about anything,
15:24being punctual, being somewhere at an exact time,
15:27being able to just hang out, go with the train, get somewhere for free.
15:30I'm getting from point A to point B and I don't have to drive.
15:33I don't have to deal with inner city traffic
15:36or anybody who's not going to let me get in my lane.
15:40A nice day, a good ride.
15:44I like to get into a terminal too that I haven't seen before and poke around.
15:48I like to do that.
15:54You also go through parts of the country, unlike the interstate system,
15:58that has virtually no signs of any commercial activity.
16:02No billboards, no exit signs, no neon.
16:06Seeing America from a boxcar, you see the wild horses, you see the ghost towns,
16:12you see everything about America that's wonderful.
16:17To be out in the open prairie where there's nothing but beautiful land around me
16:21and I have all that solitude and all that time to think things out and get creative.
16:25Seeing different parts of the country, a new piece of scenery every day.
16:31There are places like Idaho and Montana and Wyoming, all those western places I love.
16:38Those mountains are beautiful.
16:40The sheer excitement of getting to new places and new experiences.
16:46Just to see what I call priceless wonders.
16:49Those things that drift by when you're riding a train.
16:52And the adventure doesn't end when the ride's over.
16:56Breathtaking landscapes give way to the colorful characters who pass through the train yards.
17:03The friends you meet along the way, that's what keeps me going back I think more than anything.
17:09They're not a 9 to 5 office kind of person and we can sit and tell tall tales and relate to each other.
17:16I really enjoy those kind of folks.
17:18We're not caught up in that hustle-bustle, credit card, plastic money, car payments, concrete highways
17:24and going from the office to the club to make the scene in other words.
17:28I used the hobo as a medium for my poetry and found that everybody I've met so far has a story
17:35and that helps me tremendously with my feelings.
17:39The friendship of the young fellow who took me to Canada and to Florida was precious.
17:48When I started out, I had my own preconceptions about who was out riding freight trains
17:56and I thought that it was a fairly homogenous group.
18:00And I think one of the things I've really learned is that there are many different personalities
18:05that are out riding the freight.
18:07And those different personalities rarely devolves their family names, adopting unique aliases instead.
18:15Everybody's road name kind of gives in a nutshell who they are and what they represent.
18:22So I can introduce myself as Jet Set John and that kind of tells a little bit of the other side of me
18:27rather than just being a hobo.
18:30Some guys that walk along the track, they might call him Track Man, you know.
18:35And Sidecar Sam, he was riding sidecar on a tanker with his feet dangling down alongside the tank.
18:43That's why I named him Sidecar Sam.
18:46Then Low Line Larry, he rides from Florida all the way up to Utah and he rides that low line.
18:51So I gave him the name of Low Line.
18:53Everybody has a road name.
18:56I was a stranger passing through your town.
19:04I was a stranger passing through your town.
19:10When I ask you a favor, good girl, you turn me down.
19:23You believe that he came?
19:27Tell him about me.
19:29Most of the time I'm alone because I have my own destination and I have my own reason for going somewhere.
19:35I love solitude.
19:36I was lonely before I started riding.
19:38I never get lonely anywhere.
19:40I told my wife I was going on an 18-day trip.
19:42She hopefully was sorry to see me go.
19:46My sister and everybody, they get a kick out of telling her friends what I do.
19:49My brother has been with me one time, but he doesn't want to do it again, but he kind of likes the concept, you know what I mean?
19:56My mother looks a little bit askance at it, you know, like it's not the greatest thing, but she understands that I enjoy it and have a good time doing it.
20:05My family, I don't really tell them anymore because you get a lot of shaking heads and shrugged shoulders and they don't really understand why I do it.
20:13Since I'm a senior citizen, it's kind of frowned on.
20:18A lot of them think it's really neat, but then there's some that just think I'm totally out of my mind.
20:23Most of my friends think it sounds like fun, sounds entertaining.
20:28They don't do it.
20:29My friends, they're a little more understanding.
20:32They tell me, it's happened more than a few times, that they tell me they want to come out on a ride with me.
20:38And as soon as I pack up my gear and I'm ready to head out the door, they seem to disappear.
20:43My mother spent a lot of worrisome years, I'm sure.
20:46When I got to Dunsmeyer on that trip there, I called her and it just so happened I had a check coming from a job that I'd worked before I left, a couple months before.
20:55And she sent it to me by Western Union.
20:57I got my butt on a goddamn Greyhound.
21:00Quitted that whole boy.
21:08Outside the rain was falling on the lonely boxcar door.
21:27But the little form of hobo bill lay dead upon the floor.
21:35While the train sped through the darkness.
21:39With a raging storm outside.
21:43No one knew that hobo bill was taking his last ride.
21:51Yee-ho, hobo bill.
21:58Always, always cold and stuff was always blowing in your face.
22:05And I think the coldest ride I had was from Eugene, Oregon to Klamath Falls, Oregon.
22:17And then on into Dunsmeyer.
22:20But we rode over the top of the mountain there in a snow storm.
22:23And a couple of other bows and myself were in the ice compartment back in those old 40-foot reefers.
22:31If they didn't have any fruit they were carrying, they'd leave those reefer tops open sometime.
22:37And it was an excellent place to get if you couldn't get inside of a boxcar somewhere.
22:41That's where we were on that mountain in that snow storm.
22:45Sometimes it's just too hot.
22:46You get stuck in the back end of a well car.
22:50There's no way to get out of the sun and you broil to death.
22:52The worst part about it would be in situations where you've run out of water and you know it's going to be a long time before you can find any.
22:58Finding a place to take a shower.
23:00Being hungry.
23:01Lonesome towns.
23:02Waiting, waiting, waiting.
23:03What you're waiting for is when you finally catch out again and you start moving and you have that, ah, this is what I was waiting for.
23:10But when you wait a long time for that, I sometimes sit there and go, is this really worth it just to get on that train?
23:17This is really a pain.
23:18But in the end it is always worth it.
23:21Well, the worst thing that I used to think was getting a flat wheel and you're lying there trying to sleep and you're bouncing off the floor every time that wheel goes around.
23:30The railroad bull running you out of the yards or the town clown putting a run on you from his town and telling you to move on.
23:43I get sick and tired of the bugs sometimes.
23:45Some of the places, highways, slapping the bugs.
23:47All of a sudden in the middle of the night, man, they'll break air and they'll leave me out in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
23:52That's kind of, that's kind of hard.
23:54The worst thing that could possibly happen for some of us, ah, would be if they made it legal.
24:00I'd like to make a little disclaimer here, ah, just for our, ah, our lawyers sake, ah, no bail.
24:07Came down to make sure we're all in line.
24:09By no means does the National Hobo Association encourage anybody to go get on a freight train.
24:15It's illegal and it's dangerous.
24:17During the Depression, hundreds of trespassers invaded yards like this and risked the wrath of the railroad bull.
24:28Today, it's a misdemeanor in most places.
24:31The law's main concern being vandalism of railroad property.
24:36But a pesky hobo could surely wind up in jail if the bull's warning goes unheeded.
24:42They had to run alongside and follow the, advice of the older men, hook a ride and get in.
24:52And the railroad police couldn't stop you from doing that, because it was just as risky for them as it was for us.
25:02But they could masterfully keep you out of the railroad yards.
25:09And that's where we, ah, tangled with them.
25:15Back in the old days, you're gonna go to the chain gang for 30 days, you know, especially down south.
25:21They were mean and bad.
25:27Well, in the old days, they used to hit you with them breakman's club.
25:33Today, they're not too bad, I guess.
25:36They didn't, ah, stop us from getting aboard the train slow-moving.
25:44And we were very agile, and we had done it many times.
25:48Ah, once we broke through their lines, we were on our way to Peoria.
25:54They walked the train with the deputy sheriffs, pulled us off of there.
25:59But it was kind of nice, sort of like Aunt Bea bringing us dinner and everything, you know.
26:02It was kind of fun.
26:03They wrote us a ticket for trespassing on railroad property.
26:05We had to spend the night in the jail, and they told us to get out of town the next morning,
26:08because the DA wasn't gonna prosecute it.
26:10The city was too small.
26:11I was never badly treated by them.
26:17They saw that I was younger.
26:20They were, in a sense, protective.
26:24But they did not want me aboard their freight trains.
26:27I got into a boxcar with about eight other hobos, and I was hungry.
26:33And I went down and broke the seal on one of them refrigerator cars,
26:36and did the unmancipal, and took a whole case of green beans out of there.
26:41And I threw it up in that boxcar, and those hobos went to screaming at me and said,
26:45Man, we'll get 50 years in jail.
26:46What are you doing breaking the seal in that boxcar?
26:48I said, They'll throw us all off this train.
26:51I said, Well, at least we'll be hungry.
26:53Won't be hungry.
26:54And one old hobo way back in the corner of the boxcar,
26:59he threw over a can opener and a spoon.
27:02He said, I'll join you, young man.
27:13Hobo camps, also known as jungles,
27:16grew up near the train yards, water tanks, crew change points,
27:20anywhere locomotives stopped.
27:22Sooner or later, you did fall into one of the camps.
27:29And very imaginative men ran them.
27:34They were congenial places.
27:37You didn't want to leave.
27:39You made friends.
27:41You heard great stories.
27:43Well, I remember going into a hobo jungle one time in Barstow.
27:50They had a really a large hobo camp there.
27:54I participated in some community stew a couple times in my life.
27:59Fit for a king.
28:05Hobo stew.
28:06The famous Mulligan that's been made in spike cans and paint buckets under bridges
28:10and on the edge of the railroad yard since the Civil War.
28:13The stew pot cooked, gurgled over the fire for days on end.
28:17They just kept adding ingredients as the level went down.
28:20Those jungles, they were clean.
28:23They had an order.
28:25They didn't throw garbage around.
28:29Usually, if a guy come into jungles, he came there with his loaf of bread
28:35and his bologna and cheese.
28:37And maybe he wanted to make a pot of coffee and wait for a train and catch out.
28:49It's the townspeople that complain.
28:52They complain to the police.
28:53The police complain to the railroad bulls.
28:55And the railroad bulls run them out.
28:57If they keep the place clean, you know, and pick up all their trash and stuff,
29:02I don't think they'd even be bothered.
29:05The jungles are being wiped out with caterpillar tractors
29:08so that there would be no place for the riders to hide.
29:11There's very few jungles nowadays.
29:14Go to sleep you weary hobo
29:20Let the town strip slowly by
29:27Can't you hear the steel rail humming
29:33That's a hobo lullaby
29:39Though your clothes are torn ragged
29:45Though your hair is turning grey
29:51Though you've spent a lifetime searching
29:57You'll find happiness someday
29:59You'll find happiness someday
30:01You'll find happiness someday
30:03So go to sleep you weary hobo
30:07Let the town strip slowly by
30:12Can't you hear the steel rail humming
30:22That's a hobo's lullaby
30:27Hobos communicate through the National Hobo Association
30:33Founded in 1987 by Santa Fe Bow
30:38Who's been a trained barnacle since the 70s
30:41His two goals were uniting others who shared a love of the open road
30:45And preserving the history of the hobo
30:48During his travels Santa Fe came across an old copy of the now defunct hobo news
30:54A publication that dated back to 1908
30:58Consequently he created the hobo times
31:02America's journal of wanderlust
31:04And began distributing it to kindred spirits
31:08In 1990 Buzz Potter came on board
31:12And together they upgraded the times
31:14To the only magazine in America
31:16That features a blend of railroad adventure stories
31:19Poetry, nostalgia
31:21And the current news of life on the hobo trail
31:25A letter that we got from a 96 year old
31:28Former hobo
31:30Who rode back in the depression
31:32And he found out about us
31:34And he sent us a letter
31:36And it said very simply
31:37Dear National Hobo Association
31:39Please don't let the hobo die
31:42It grew slowly over the years
31:44But steadily
31:45And today we have thousands of members nationwide
31:48That span the demographic spectrum
31:53From lawyers to laborers, professional people, corporate people
31:57They're from all walks of life
31:59And they've been where I've got to go yet
32:01And I learned from their experiences
32:04It's amazing how many people don't realize they're hobos
32:07Until they come and see us
32:08And they realize that they're on the same wavelength with us
32:11With their kindred spirits
32:12They have the wanderlust
32:13The sense of romance
32:15And the sense of nostalgia
32:17All of a sudden we understood
32:19That there were other people like ourselves
32:21And we found out how to get a hold of them
32:23It provides a forum for us to get together
32:25And tell our tales
32:27Rather than just maybe running into one or two people
32:29In the jungle
32:30And telling your individual experiences
32:32And to get together occasionally
32:34And share the fellowship
32:35That was forged in early days
32:37Around campfires
32:38And remote places throughout the country
32:40Now we're a little more respectable I guess
32:42And we get together with much better stew
32:45And much better clothes
32:46And much warmer fires perhaps
32:48But the fellowship hasn't changed
32:50We enjoy brotherhood, camaraderie
32:52We sing songs
32:53We trade photographs and addresses
32:55And we sort of get together
32:57This to me is my family
32:58We have younger people now
33:00Some of the
33:01The ex-generation people
33:02Who are looking for themselves
33:04Trying to find themselves
33:05I guess
33:06And part of that is seeing America
33:08And we're trying to educate our children
33:11And our younger folk
33:13Who might not know what a steam locomotive is
33:15And what a hobo jungle was
33:16And a mulligan stew
33:17And a pot
33:18And a frisco circle
33:19And stuff like that
33:20Terms that were used back in the
33:2120s and 30s and 40s
33:23Many NHA members are devoted collectors
33:28Of hobo memorabilia
33:30George Horton has acquired hobo artifacts
33:33Such as these antique carvings
33:36Each whittled from a single piece of wood
33:39These whistles and chains
33:41Were formed in a similar fashion
33:43Enterprising hobos
33:45Even chiseled peach pits
33:47Into monkey trinkets
33:49Del Romines wrote a book on hobo nickels
33:53Explaining how bows tooled Indian head coins
33:56To match the profiles of their paying customers
34:00They'd even reshape the buffalo image
34:03On the reverse side
34:05Drummond Manfield's art
34:07Reflects earlier days
34:09When it was pretty much a man's world
34:11Out on the road
34:12But nowadays women are prominent members
34:16Of the hobo community
34:18We have a lot of fun
34:20Together
34:21And it becomes like your extended family
34:23Your brothers
34:24Your sisters
34:25And you make friends for life
34:26So
34:27I love them
34:28Hoboings definitely
34:31In Connecticut Shorty's blood
34:33Her father was a hobo for 40 years
34:35And by no means
34:37A bum
34:38You see real hobos bristle
34:41At the intimation that they shunned work
34:43In fact they discreetly mark their own hieroglyphics
34:47Around train yards
34:48To alert each other about town prospects
34:52An oft-repeated axiom sums up the men on the road
34:59A hobo is a traveling worker
35:02A tramp is a traveling non-worker
35:06A bum is a non-traveling non-worker
35:10You gotta do work in order to keep yourself independent
35:15Traveling money
35:17Take any kind of a job
35:20Whether it's two hours or two days or two months
35:24Get a road stake
35:26The western farmers
35:29Had a deal with the railroads
35:33Whereby they would ship their cattle
35:37From the ranch
35:39To the slaughterhouse in Chicago
35:42They had to have somebody aboard the train
35:45So that at every
35:4712 hour interval
35:50You stopped
35:52Unloaded the cattle
35:55Exercised them
35:57Watered them
35:58Fed them
35:59Got back aboard the train
36:02And went on to Chicago
36:04You got no money for this
36:07But you didn't get transportation
36:10We used to hay
36:12That have two cuttings of hay a year
36:15And you're good for a week to two weeks of haying
36:21We went and caught a freight out of Denver
36:23And went west
36:25And we wound up in Yakima, Washington
36:28And he had an ant there that had an apple orchard
36:34And he thought, well, we could find that place
36:36And maybe we could pick some apples
36:38We never found the place
36:40We had the great state of Washington State
36:43That's the real apple-knocking country
36:49And we were
36:51Everybody was a hobo back then
36:53Roadhog washed all the windows in my house
36:56Inside and out
36:57Side door had scrubbed my kitchen floor
36:59Immaculate
37:00And they raked all the leaves in my yard
37:02It was fall, late September
37:04And that was to pay me back for the ride
37:07And the, you know, the little bedroom I gave them
37:11So, separate from mine, of course
37:13Well, I've done all dug irrigation ditches
37:16Broke horses, hoed watermelon in the fields
37:21I've done just about every kind of work you can think of
37:26I worked in a produce packing house
37:29Loading lettuce, bananas, stuff like that
37:34Primarily I play guitar
37:36I do a lot of folk festivals around the country
37:38I play veterans hospitals
37:39I do children's hospitals
37:41I try to bring a few hundred dollars along with me
37:44On the freights when I take a trip
37:45And, uh, if I run out or if I happen to follow the job
37:49I'll take it
37:50I do anything from painting, carpentry, concrete work, trimming trees
37:55And when I'm broke in between guitar gigs
37:57I go to day labor and push a wheelbarrow, dig a ditch
37:59Just anything I can, you know, to get by, you know
38:01The average hobo isn't gonna last long at any job
38:08Ah, today there's a new class of unticketed passengers
38:13Who vary from the old time hobos
38:16They aren't chasing down jobs
38:18They're running from them
38:20And have come to be known as yuppie or recreational hobos
38:24Yuppie hobos, they're a pretty good group
38:29A lot of those guys really do more than their share
38:33I approve of them
38:35I'd like to see everybody see America
38:37It's a beautiful country
38:38And there's so much that the people don't really see
38:42Well, you know, everybody deserves a vacation
38:45These guys work hard, you know
38:47They put all the big money together
38:48I mean, if I could have a BMW and ride the rails
38:50And have the better of two equals
38:51I'd have a great life too
38:52They're not as generous as our old school were and has been
38:59They're a different breed of bows
39:03I'm out there just like them
39:05Just riding the rails, seeing the country
39:07And that's really what the real hobos are all about
39:09I had somebody send me $50 a month
39:12That was the deal
39:13Couldn't send me more than $50 a month
39:15Unless I came back to Minneapolis
39:17And re-signed the papers
39:19Because I figured the less I'd spend
39:20The more I'd experience
39:22And so I would go that last week, you know
39:27Where I'd burn all my money
39:28And then I wouldn't have any money for a week
39:31And I always found that the third week of the month
39:33I had more fun
39:34As a professional pilot
39:36There is a courtesy among airline pilots
39:39That if you present your ID card
39:41They'll let you ride up in the cockpit
39:43And since the name of the game is traveling for free
39:45It's a little faster way of getting somewhere
39:47If you don't have quite the time
39:49Coming here, I rode up in the cockpit of a 747-400
39:53Where they offered me their bunk room to sleep
39:56Which is just like a Pullman car
39:59So it's really a high-class hobo way of traveling
40:02I don't really think I qualify as a yuppie
40:05I mean, I'm not really young
40:07And I'm not trying to be upwardly mobile
40:09I'm sort of a professional now doing nursing work
40:12But I don't really think anybody that knows me
40:15Would characterize me as a yuppie
40:16I don't really think I am
40:18I got no complaints about other people
40:22Having a different approach to it somewhat
40:24I think most people sort of call me like a recreational rider
40:27I guess
40:28So I got into riding freight trains at a necessity
40:32But after I eventually got back on my feet
40:34And got to work and got a place to live and all that
40:37Then I became somewhat of a recreational rider
40:39Because I just couldn't get away from it
40:41I just had that wanderlust in my blood
40:43But we all have one thing in common
40:45We like to steal rides
40:47Besides traveling for free
40:51The ever-frugal hobo has learned to survive
40:54And mother nature's free lunches
40:57Most people think that hobos went to houses for meals
41:01Or work and try and pay for them
41:04But a lot of meals were taken from right around here
41:09Right along trackside
41:11Here we have plantain
41:14Which no doubt was definitely part of the hobo diet
41:19I know a lot of stories I've read
41:22Hobos and other people
41:24Would always just pick up a little bit
41:26Chew on it
41:28Tastes good with other plants
41:30And between plantain
41:33With a little bit of lemon clover flavor
41:35You can eat a great meal
41:38When I finally broke free of money
41:40And realized that I could live off the
41:43I could live off the blackberries
41:45And I know where they are
41:47And the raspberries are where they are
41:48And the other things that are around the yard
41:50You can eat right off the land
41:52Or the dumpsters
41:54Or whatever else
41:56A quick-witted hobo
41:58Has traditionally added humor
42:00To his social commentary
42:02Put your lobsters in the trash
42:04Eat your pheasant while it's under glass
42:06Get into your garbage
42:08Or have no cash
42:10A little dinner I'll be gone in a flash
42:12Won't you hold them pickles?
42:14Hold that lettuce
42:15Special orders
42:16They don't upset us
42:18Just as long as they would let us
42:20Dive it our way
42:22Yeah, we're gonna go dumpster diving
42:26I'm surviving
42:28My kitty cats are thriving today
42:32Just open the lid
42:35Have a little look
42:36It's all prepared
42:37There's no need to cook
42:39We're going dumpster diving
42:41Whoa, whoa, hooray
42:43Catching rides on freight trains is notoriously dangerous
42:53Even the most seasoned hobo will caution against novices
42:57Trying to jump on board a moving train
42:59Telling horror stories of accidents they've witnessed
43:02Resulting in agonizing dismemberments
43:05Or gruesome deaths
43:07One wrong move
43:09And you've ended your days
43:11There were extended couplings
43:13Probably 10 or 15 feet across
43:15And the trains were moving
43:17And there were the two of us
43:19One guy would stand here
43:21And shine the light at the couplings
43:23And after he safely got across
43:25We'd leave the light on
43:26And this was at night
43:27And the train maybe going 50 or 60 miles an hour
43:29We'd toss the flashlight to the other guy
43:31And of course it was up to him to make sure he caught it
43:33And then in turn
43:35He would shine the light
43:37As the second guy would go across the railings
43:39And we had to do this for about 4 or 5 cars
43:41And I think back
43:42It's probably the most foolish thing I ever did
43:45I'd never do it again
43:46I still get goose bumps when I think about it
43:49There's dangers out there
43:50And there's no way you can avoid them
43:51And even the most experienced veterans
43:53Cannot avoid the dangers of riding trains
43:56I mean I just really never travel with somebody I don't know
43:59You just
44:01You just
44:02It's just too chancy
44:03It's too chancy
44:04People
44:06Who
44:08Who wish you harm
44:10And want to
44:11Want to take you and rob you
44:13That's the biggest danger today
44:15It's not from the bulls
44:16And it's not from falling off the trains
44:18Back in the old days
44:20It was nothing for
44:2210, 15 guys and a
44:24Side door pullman
44:25Which is a boxcar
44:26To ride in the same car
44:28Nowadays
44:29You wouldn't
44:30Dare
44:31To ride with
44:32Strange
44:33Hobos
44:34Or anyone
44:35You didn't know
44:36You ride by yourself
44:38I was learning how to fight
44:40From a friend of mine
44:41On a boxcar one time
44:42He showed me how to
44:43Take a knife away
44:44From a guy
44:45And flip him
44:46And all that stuff
44:47He learned it in the Marine Corps
44:48I think
44:49We practiced that in a boxcar
44:50Moving about 80 miles an hour one time
44:52When it comes to train riding
44:53When it comes to train riding
44:54You have to give that train
44:55All of your respect
44:56But the train
44:57Will never
44:58Will give you any
44:59See
45:00You can't rely upon
45:01The train
45:02To get you where you're going
45:03Or to be a smooth ride
45:04Or a safe one
45:05I have a great concern
45:06About equipment failure
45:07I have a great concern
45:08About human error
45:10With regard to rail operations
45:12And these kinds of things
45:13I have no control over
45:14And you never know
45:15Whenever you're going
45:16To be on a train
45:17That has a crew
45:18That's gone to sleep
45:19At the throttle
45:20And next thing you know
45:21You're in a big pileup
45:22At the bottom of a hill
45:28I rode the rods
45:31From Iowa to Illinois
45:36And a more hellish experience
45:39No young fellow ever had
45:43It was horrible
45:47You set up
45:49A little protection there
45:52To keep the soot
45:53Out of your face
45:56And you bounced along
45:58And you felt
45:59The ride would never end
46:02It was a descent into hell
46:06And how these men could do it
46:09Again and again and again
46:11Bewildered me
46:12No matter how long it may take us
46:16Life-threatening challenges
46:18Took our new dimensions
46:19On December the 7th 1941
46:21The day many believed
46:23The hobo died
46:25Will win through
46:26To absolute victory
46:29No longer did Bo's jungle up
46:31In Frisco
46:32Spookolo
46:33Or many hopeless
46:35Now it was Anzio
46:37Normandy
46:38And Iwo Jima
46:40And when they were
46:41Welcomed back home
46:42There were jobs for everyone
46:44New watermobiles
46:45And even diesel locomotives
46:47Life on the hobo trail
46:49Would indeed
46:50Never be the same
46:52What will become of the hobo
46:57Whenever his time comes to die
47:03I wouldn't trade my experiences out here on the road
47:07For anybody's college education
47:10And though I never really accomplished anything
47:15By all this travel
47:17It satisfied something in me
47:19I don't know whether I was born with it
47:25But it started very young
47:29And I never stopped
47:33I got stopped
47:36But I would
47:40Look right now to be in one of those hobo camps
47:43Will they tell us
47:44That we can not rise
47:47Will the hobo
47:49Come with the rich man
47:53Will the hobo survive
47:54Or will he go the way of the steam train?
47:58We wonder
47:59Will the hobo survive?
48:00Or will he go the way of the steam train?
48:01We wonder
48:03If you think about how many
48:05Lifestyles
48:06Buzak olmalı var, bir çayla belirti.
48:13Üzerine aynı insanların çapında.
48:16Fakat Provo devam etmişler ancak Provo tüm!
48:22Dornlandırma çok dizi.
48:24Sağları saygılı bir tanımda kaynały.
48:26Bu, bir tanımda etkiler yoksa bu adam Türkiye'yi dinledi.
48:31Temizasyonları, bu tarzın bir tanımda.
48:34genelde arkapların en çok güçlü ilişkilerin
48:37követluğunda en çok ilişkilerin
48:39alanlar var tüm kitabı
48:40bu harap o
48:42bir çocuklarının
48:43biridadesło
48:44ençen bir anda
48:45benzerim
48:47bir tabu
48:48değil
48:49お 94
48:50tanı
48:50sakes
48:51o
48:52bir
48:53START
48:53Private
48:54İyi
48:55o
48:56kadın
48:57hiyac
48:58bu
48:58bu
48:58ucu
48:59net
48:59hiyac
49:01bu
49:02bu
49:02Çünkü birçok hizmeti de ihtiyacımız var.
49:05Bu, daha fazla hizmeti de bu parçası var.
49:08Yeniden bu parçası var.
49:10Sonuç olarak, bu parçası var.
49:12Sonuç olarak, bu parçası var.
49:15Çünkü, sorunla, çok daha fazla boyutluğun.
49:17Açık olanlar, çok daha iyi oraya çıkıyor.
49:21Sadece daha daha daha fazla boğa bakım.
49:24Bir de daha daha daha daha fazla pek var.
49:26Bir de daha daha daha daha daha iyi bakın.
49:28Bu parçası var.
49:30I think maybe the hobo is pretty much gone in the east, but in the west he will live.
49:38The old hobos now are too old to travel. They're becoming homeboys now.
49:44They just stay in one location. They don't travel no more.
49:47I think we'll always have heavy-duty rail riders, people that want to ride freights and go for the adventure,
49:53but the old Bridger steam train hobos are pretty much gone. We're losing a few more every year.
49:59And my era of hobos, they're vastly dying out.
50:09The real hobo is a dying breed, a guy out there who's trying to get by, going from town to town, looking for work.
50:17A real gentleman, honest fellow is a hobo.
50:19I have a sinking feeling in my heart that the day of the hobo is about over. I think it's a fading game.
50:27There's a legacy that will always live on, and it will change with the different groups who are out there,
50:33but as long as there's a rail to ride, I think someone will be riding it.
50:37The future could be pretty bright, actually.
50:40If a young man should want a hobo in this country, it might be the way to go.
50:45I think there will always be young men like me, who are a little bit a thwart civilization.
51:02I've been a loner. I've been my own man, fiercely so.
51:10Hey, now come the Isle of all you ramblers, all of you travelers on the road.
51:19Well, the time has come to remember what you're going.
51:27Like, where do you come from and where do you think you're going?
51:32I don't know how any of the bows ride the trains these days.
51:50For the simple reason, they got all the ladders cut off.
51:53And you say to yourself, well, how do they get up there, you know?
51:58But they do, and they make their way, and they're still hobo and all around the country.
52:04God bless them.
52:08See you down the road.
52:09All around the water tanks, waiting for a train
52:20A thousand miles away from home, sleeping in the rain
52:27I walked up to a brakeman to give him my talk
52:35He says, if you've got money, I'll see that you don't walk
52:43I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show
52:51Get off, get off, you railroad bum
52:56And he slammed that boxcar door
52:59Though my pocketbook is empty
53:09And my heart is full of pain
53:13I'm a thousand miles away from home
53:17Waiting for a train
53:20You're the day, oh, the day, oh
53:25Oh, me
53:26I'm a thousand miles away from home
53:27I'm a thousand miles away from home
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