Nothing can prepare you for hopping your first freight train. The ground vibrates, you hear that lonesome whistle blow, and a wall of noise hits you like a tidal wave: groaning, screeching cars, steel ...

(The following is the fifth part in an ongoing series recalling a 17-year-old boy’s cross-country trip to California taken with his high school buddies in the summer of 1958. The, story, by Stan ...

Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border. The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security and ...

Filmmaker and self-proclaimed "Hobo Clown King" Jeff Seal has previously shown us how to never pay for food in NYC and revealed how much of a mess the midtown Eighth Avenue bike lane can be. For his ...

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 ...

WEBVTT WE WILL CHECK BACK WITH YOU AS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS. POLICE HAVE DETERMINED A TEENAGER FOUND DEAD ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS THE SPRING WAS MURDERED. THE TEENAGER HAD BEEN FREIGHT TRAIN ...

WEBVTT FIRST TIME. RHONDELLA IS LIVE NOW. HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Reporter: A GROUP OF BOYS INCLUDING THE 12-YEAR-OLD VICTIM HANG OUT ON THESE TRACKS ALL THE TIME TO GO TRAIN HOPING. FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS ...