People are fantasizing about the railroad." Hobos ride a freight car to Southern California in 1934. The history of train hopping in the American imagination starts with hobos. Hobo culture was ...

A train robber gang is terrorizing ... with a rash of heists that have netted the hop-along gang nearly $2 million in pricey Nike sneakers. At least ten trains traveling along the Burlington Northern ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech firefighters were battling a major chemical blaze in eastern Czech Republic on Friday after a freight train derailed and carcinogenic benzene from damaged tank wagons caught ...

Civil War-era hobos hopped trains to find work. Content creators hop trains with their GoPros. Hitching rides on the railroad is an American tradition.