In 2006, the most decorated hobo in United States history died. Before you (mistakenly) connect the word hobo to the state of being homeless, consider the origins of the word: migrant workers who ...

A CSX freight train crawls through Orlando’s Church Street Station, and 19-year-old John Snyder eyes it like an addict who has just spotted a free fix. Everyone around the train is standing still ...

SARTELL, Minn. — It began with a poem and a toast. "Gentlemen — if I can call hobos gentlemen," Tom Staller said. "We are here today on the banks of the Mississippi ... to honor a historic tradition, ...

SARTELL, Minn. — It began with a poem and a toast. "Gentlemen — if I can call hobos gentlemen," Tom Staller said. "We are here today on the banks of the Mississippi ... to honor a historic tradition, ...

This blog about end-of-life issues enables us to track here other things that come to an end, such as technology items and lifestyles. In today’s Spokesman-Review, I wrote about the end of the train ...

At 4:40 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, a freight train making its way south through Chehalis suddenly stopped. A sensor had gone off, indicating that the train was dragging something. It was still dark when ...

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.

Train hopping is a long-established tradition in the US, particularly popular in the Great Depression when the jobless took to the rails to find work. But why would people risk their lives hitching a ...

Steam Train Maury, who spent his life as Maurice W. Graham until a train whistle’s timeless lament compelled him to hop a freight to freedom and, much later, fame as the first and only g rand ...