Train Hopping Watch
The purpose of this page is to provide resources for law enforcement,
railroad police, and concerned citizens to enable them to better monitor internet
coverage of this dangerous and illegal activity.
Unauthorized use of this site by train hoppers looking for information
is strictly forbidden!
Unfortunately when you put information on the internet everyone
can access it. Recent traffic on freight train hopper mailing lists indicates that
freight train hoppers are making unauthorized use of this page, so this page has
been given an additional mission. Now in addition to its main purpose it is also
designed to lure unsuspecting freight train hopping thrill seekers to a location
where they can hopefully learn a little about freight train hopping safety. I apologize
to the concerned citizens who this material offend.
Finding Train hopping pages in search engines
target="_self">Yahoo's listing of other pages about train hopping
target="_self">Yahoo's listings of Rail Road safety pages
target="_self">Search Excite for Train Hopping
target="_self">Searching lycos for train hopping
target="_self">Searching alta vista 'train hopping
target="_self">Searching infoseek 'train hopping'
Searching
hotbot for 'train hopping'
target="_self">Search web crawler 'train hopping'
target="_self">Search Magellan for 'train hopping'
target="_self">Search Snap for train hopping
target="_self">Search MSN for train hopping
target="_self">Try dejanews 'train hopping'
target="_self">Try dejanews train hopping jaks@netcom.com to read my posts
target="_self">Hotbots search for pages that link to dead train bums
http://www.excite.com/travel/sports_and_outdoors/urban_adventure
Extremely Dangerous, main stream media fluff, mythology and
Government sponsored romanticism
http://newdeal.feri.org/ron/ron11.htm
http://rs6.loc.gov/wpa/22060106.html
http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~amartell/erin.html
http://www.cps.net.au/nancyred.htm
http://www.cyber24.com/htm2/6_141.htm
http://www.hotwired.com/road/95/46/index5a.html
http://www.lineone.net/sundaytimes/98/06/14/travel/travel_news/stitrltrl01004-d.fhtml
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/circuits/articles/20hobo.html
http://www.oven.com/ridingtherails/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/rails/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues98/aug98/hobo.html
http://www.thespoon.com/trainhop/
http://www.worthyent.com/hobo.html
New School
http://venus.beseen.com/chat/rooms/a/3194/(Train
hopping chat room)
http://www.ftra.org(Responsible)
http://www.speakeasy.org/realchange/fea_hoppingfrts.html
http://www.speakeasy.org/realchange/fea_Trains_aug.html(Responsible)
http://4homeless.hypermart.net/hitchhike.html(Responsible)
http://homeboyz.com/railrelics/(Responsible)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2841/
http://www.fringeware.com/fwr/fwr12-32.html
http://freighthopping.ml.org/(Not
currently working)
http://apo.mech.nwu.edu/~breger/humor/porch.txt
http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/austin/23(Currently
not working)
http://www.ausgang.com/shelf/begin.html(Currently
not working)
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/nonafran/Jesus.html
http://www.flickermag.com/featlibr/history/hobo/hobo.html(Currently
not working)
http://www.rpi.edu/~holtd/Mclean/Songsf/homeless.htm
http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/geog1b/spring1998/hobos/
http://www.tabloid.net/97/06/25/A2-bulletin.html
Classic Sites still in existance that started the Internet
Train Hopping Media Hype
http://www.deadtrainbums.com (Responsible)
http://members.home.net/claygill/index.html(Responsible)
http://www.slackaction.com/hobo/index.htm
http://www.amplifiedintelligence.com/WhatTheProfessionalsSay.html(Responsible)
Classic communists train hopping site!
http://rene.ma.utexas.edu:80/users/guilfoyl/
Harmless old timers
http://members.iquest.net/~evanw/hobo.htm
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/foto/news/content/1998/tx98aug/n30reese.htm
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/specials/donebeen.html
http://www.uslink.net/~hobousa/
http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/
Tales of single rides
Once train hoppers collected their stories into great archives on just a few web
sites that made an easy target for the rail road police. After the great crack down
of the summer of 1998 train hoppers began to adopt a dangerous new tactic. Some are
putting each story at a different site in order to make them less vunerable to attacks
by special agents on any single web master. Others are creating smaller sites with
just stories of their own rides.
http://earth.usc.edu/~field/photos/misc/train.html
http://glpbooks.com/oyb/hobomichener.html
http://www.cyber-adv.com/trainride.html
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1659/road.html(Formerly
Very (Responsible) has broken saftey links to Bill Melmans vital saftey information)
http://www.glpbooks.com/oyb/hobo.html
http://www.glpbooks.com/oyb/hobomichener.html
http://www.highonadventure.com/Hoa97jul/Rails/rails.htm
http://www.nycsubway.org/news/other/hoboing.html
http://www.stmartins.org/freight.html
http://www.teleport.com/~gerryvz/
http://www.teleport.com/~patrick/trains/index.html
Single dead bum stories
http://www.stokstad.com/cyberspacecafe/thecrossing.html(Currently
not working)
Dead Bum Songs
http://www.uvm.edu/~ksherloc/dylan/bootleg/only_a_hobo.html
Sites that once contained important safety information that have
now unfortunately been suppressed by special agent activity, excess publicity, or
removed because of webmasters increased concern for safety
Bill Melman (Formerly Very (Responsible))(Unfortunately
now completely Defuncked, Bills site once contained
some extreamly important saftey information as well as an account
of the creators near death experiance.)
http://www.snowcrest.net/bndlstif(Formerly
Very (Responsible))
(Unfortunately North Bank Fred's once great site this site has now removed
most of its content including a lot of extreamly important saftey
information)
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/5346/east.html(Formerly
Very Responsible)
(Formerly train hoppers yard search this site which contained inportant saftey
information has been suppressed by the misguided and overly Zelous efforts Laura
Blanchard)
Responsible sites with Train Hopping information
that do an outstanding job of presenting saftey information. Note that these sites
were already mentioned above
http://homeboyz.com/railrelics/links.html
Rail relics lists Dead Train Bums as a cool site.
http://www.thespoon.com/trainhop/train2b.html
Wes modes says about this page: An even more shrilly hysterical page that
"reveals the truth about hopping trains." It begins obstensively with the
kind-hearted notion of keeping people from getting hurt on the rails. However, it
reveals a certain glee at the thought of scummy, free-loading, criminal train-riding
bums getting everything they have coming to them
Combat RailFans
Links page links to this page and they have this to say:
Dead Train Bums, You may have seen this link on the Donner Pass warniing page
but here it is again. If you are giving hopping a freight some thought take a look
at this site first. There are also some good links here that present catching out
in a more positive light.
http://www.railserve.com/switchyard/Freight_Railroads_Page/
Railserve.com contains a lot of links to Freight Railroads and even contains a
link to this site it says:
"Dead Train Bums - Explains the dangers of train hopping; by Eric Jackson
"
This extreamly responcible treatment of the subject of train hopping lists dead
train bums as "Required reading"