![]() Never hopped a train and never heard of a “Hop-Out-Spot“. “Hey man, what’s up? Do you know something about the local yards?”. As I left the store this Hobo* crossed the street. I had found a cheap donut shop and had a typical american breakfast- not healthy. You know the moment when you are waiting at a railway crossing and that steel colossus sluggishly drifts past you.The ground is shaking. ![]() How brutal and monstrous they were I could only imagine. Trains are one of the vehicles that are more easy to accelerate than to brake. Compared to hitchhiking, here one wrong step can separate life and death. ![]() A beautiful sound as attunement to a new hobby. Already the day before I heard the whistling of the trains all over Denver. I read a 300 pages thick, technical guide about train hopping, and felt well prepared as I went towards the yards. Just another technique of movement, that I wanted to learn. Riding freight trains in America was on my list.
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