[SDOOD]

Well yeah i figured that, but if youre on the freight and its not stopping anytime soon. you get hungry and you wanna cook something

[acer910]

aint gotta eat a hot meal every time you eat. plus whatever train youre going to be on isnt going to be running more then 10 hours nonstop. if youre going to cook on a train look up diy rocketstoves or whatever they are called. its a little stove you make from tin cans and you fuel with wood. i imagine that propane crap aint cheap, and i wouldnt want to get caught on a train witth propane tanks anyways.

[SDOOD]

awesome man thanks for the help
im gonna check that out

[xen]

Or rent an RV and drive along the tracks with Catching Out playing in the background.
Survival for fun or survival for real. Your choice.
In other words, just bring a lighter. Packing on extra weight is useless. If a propane camp stove is necessary to you, consider DIY

[acer910]

thanks for explaining it a lot quicker
i remember when i first left i had a small pot, and a small pan. both of which i got rid of within 2 days.
now i DO carry a small metal bowl type thing, just incase ive got to boil some water if im at some rural ass siding in the summer with no more water... but ive yet to use it.

[248.]

RIP to Burlington!

Just got back from a trip on the ex-BCR line. Had a thuderstorm pass through, knocked some trees across the tracks - got delayed for a day. Definitely not the best way to travel if you've got a set schedule.

CN engines do have cameras that point forward, and voice recorders as well.

[rolling nowhere]

Minneapolis is pretty tight. Ne er been here before. YUP.

[Sidestep]

Just rode from Niagara falls security is tight there hopped a line to buffalo then hop another line to pattersonville reefer line boy do those things run non stop had to get off to get my knee fixed trying to hitch hike home to Delaware with torn ligaments in your knee is no fun my buddy stayed out on the trip I'm already missing it it's the best way to live I need to get my knee fixed then I'll be back out on the road ps buffalo yards are huge and full of workers and CSX cops watch out!

[Sidestep]

Made it to Cambridge Massachusetts seems like theres a lot of other travelers been walking around searching for yards had to walk 6 hours to get from the last yard I was in wondering if anyone has some insite they can give me about this place this town is awseome never thought I'd be this close to Harvard and Harvard girls! Hahaha pm any information if you can it would be greatly appreciated

[InfraRed]

Take the commuter rail to Worcester, MA...the hop out is across the tracks from the station.
Just made it to Chicago from there on CSX. Watch out for N.Baltimore, Ohio. Only ride IMs with Pigs!

[InfraRed]

p.s. yall are retarded kill yerselves and rollin' nowhere get at me let's paint

[InfraRed]

woops posting drunk i guess. hoppin' outta chicago on CP today, mpls bound

[Sidestep]

Ran into a worker he was cool told us all the lines here lead to Chicago just waiting on a good one to roll up been here 3 days just trying to get out of here if we don't leave tonight I'll take that commute
Does it cost any money? We just been trying to get out of here for awhile used all our paint in the last town we were in just been catch marker tags..... Stole a bunch of food last night cooked some hotdogs and bacon so good...... At least we're not starving poured on us last night seeked shelter in a grocery store underground stocking room haha so much rat poop....

[InfraRed]

yeah, it costs like $10 per person

[shouldabeenswallowed]

Originally Posted by rolling nowhere (View Original Post)

seattle was the best. under whatever bridge it was downtown. fuuuuck.

HELL YEAH. That and the Cherry St Food Bank are my jam.

[Boxcarro]

Fear and Loathing in the Arkansas State Penitentiary:
Posted on October 10, 2012

HOMELESS HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, “whole” and kaustós, “burnt”),[2] also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, “calamity”; Yiddish: חורבן, Churben or Hurban
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Fear and Loathing in the Arkansas State Penitentiary: A Historical Account 1 Vote Arkansas State Penitentiary Prisoner (1915) – Image found by Bruce Jackson In August 1966, Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the state police to investigate Tucker Prison Farm in Arkansas (Tucker). This investigation was a long time coming. Prisoners at Tucker (also at the other state prison farm Cummins) had, for years, tried to have their complaints heard to no avail. The CID returned a report detailing a pattern of entrenched corruption, brutality, and torture. The Governor ultimately tried to have the report suppressed. It was eventually released in 1967 after a new Governor named Winthrop Rockefeller took office. In Arkansas, the whipping of prisoners was permitted by law and as late as the early 1970s was still being practiced. There were a number of tools used to inflict corporal punishment on prisoners including “the strap” which was “more than five feet long, five inches wide, three-eighths of an inch thick with an eighteen-inch wooden handle.” One of the most infamous and cruel instruments of torture used at the prison, however, was a device called “the Tucker Telephone:” “The telephone, designed by prison superintendent Jim Bruton, consisted of an electric ‘generator’ taken from a crank-type telephone and wired in sequence with two dry-cell batteries. An undressed inmate was strapped to the treatment table at Tucker Hospital while electrodes were attached to his big toe and to his penis. The crank was then turned, sending an electrical charge into his body. In ‘long distance calls’ several charges were inflicted — of a duration designed to stop just short of the inmate’s fainting. Sometimes the ‘telephone’ operator’s skill was defective and the sustained current not only caused the inmate to lose consciousness but resulted in irreparable damage to his testicles. Some men were literally driven out of their minds. The Tucker telephone was used not only to punish inmates but to extract information from them. One of the two telephones known to be on the farm was found hidden in a hat box on the top shelf of a linen closet in the Big House, where Jim Bruton was living then (Murton & Hyams 1969, 7).” It won’t come as a surprise to readers that black prisoners were the vast majority of the individuals who were subjected to the “Tucker Phone.” Unfortunately the discovery of this torture apparatus was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the events taking place at Tucker. Not only were prisoners beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, and hoses, needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. The report also detailed a list of other horrors that prisoners were subjected to on a daily basis. In an article titled “Hell in Arkansas,” Time magazine reported on the efforts of a reform-minded superintendent of Tucker prison named Thomas Murton who had been appointed by Governor Rockefeller in 1967. The article outlines what Mr. Murton found upon his arrival at Tucker: When Thomas Murton, Rockefeller’s 39-year-old reform appointee to the prison superintendent’s job, took over early in 1967, enforced homosexuality and traffic in liquor and narcotics were rampant at Tucker and the Cummins prison farm. Trusties, armed with shotguns, were squeezing weekly payoffs out of the “rankmen,” or ordinary inmates, who worked under their supervision. Often the trusties, who lived in unlocked TV-and-refrigerator-equipped shacks, fired rifles inches over rankmen’s heads simply for sport. Murton quickly abolished many of the grotesque practices, but he was troubled by continuing rumors that prisoners had been murdered and buried on the prison grounds. Ultimately, Murton only spent a year as superintendant at Tucker and a year later he published an absolutely scathing indictment of the prison farm in a book titled “Inside Prison U.S.A.” The book is out of print now but if you are a student of penal history, it is a must-read. If you are curious about what happened to the former superintendent Jim Bruton after he “resigned” from his position when the CID report was released. Here is a short summary from Time Magazine in 1970: At Arkansas’ Tucker prison farm, “the Tucker telephone” was a fearsome means of communicating the superintendent’s displeasure. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank-phone apparatus that was wired to the genitals and one of the big toes of recalcitrant prisoners. When the crank was spun, the recipient of the message was shocked nearly unconscious. James Bruton, the superintendent who designed and used that device, resigned in 1966 when state officials began a series of investigations of brutality in the Arkansas prisons (TIME, Feb. 9, 1968). Last week Bruton pleaded no contest to charges that he violated prisoners’ civil rights by administering cruel and unusual punishment. The penalty he received was considerably more compassionate than many he himself had dealt out. The maximum permissible sentence that could be imposed on Bruton under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1871 was a $1,000 fine and one year in prison. Federal Judge J. Smith Henley imposed the full penalty, complained that it was too light, and then made it even lighter. He suspended execution of the prison term and released Bruton on a year’s probation. Henley’s explanation: “The court doesn’t want to give you a death sentence, and quite frankly, Mr. Bruton, the chances of your surviving that year would not be good. One or more of these persons or their friends with whom you have dealt in the past as inmates of the Arkansas penitentiary would kill you.”
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[Boxcarro]

To get motivated in the Mornings, I used to mix Instant Coffee with CISCO wine and Chugg it. When I was YOUNG I would just Put Dry Coffee in my Mouth & Wash it down with Water, but when I passed 55 it made me shit my drawyers. I had that happen in El Paso, December of 2006, I had to get in behind a building to take my shiiy Overhawls off, Clean up, and all...natcherwally a Tramp Couple (Guy & Gal) walked up on me, They weren't offended, "Happens to Everybody!" I had et to the El PASS GASS Mission also too. El Paso Gasso Shit Until You Die Jesus Name Recsue Mission- We Kill the Homeless with Kindness! Ourghter be their motto. BOB DYLAN was playing A BLOCK away here in SAM FRAMCISCO, Last Night. Of Course I didn/t go. I went to COMICCOM Last Weekend. $15 for both days. THIS WEEKEND is the Big TATTO CONVENTION- Friends are going- I cannot, I'm bust! My Bicycle was Stolen the First Monday in This MOnth, a Friend from Russia give me another, Better bike, I ordered a Hitch for my Trailor, My Money is Gone. I had infestated left [piece of thumb] and couldnt BUSK, then went [1/2 Piece of Left Thumb] healed, I went back, Tore my Right Finger Pickin' Finger Nail into the Quick, then was ROWSWED my a BALDY SHAVED HEAD BART POLICE tole me NO AMPLIFIER!. I seen him THROW A YOUNG LADY DOWN a CUFF HER UP, so I don't know....I useally go Fri, Sat. Need to go TODAY. Would LOVE to see People from the Years I was a PROFESSIONAL TATTOOIST, 900 West Belmont, Lake Geneva, WI. Milwaukee, Rockford, Ill. 1969-1975. LosAngeles, Long Beach, Palmdale, 1984-94- then went on a Vacation to CDC= San Qurntin, from Level IV finally left LEVEL II. discharged 1996, after beeing tookin to do 3+3 in ODC Mc Brides Farm. Now NO PAPER- I even use my HAND instead of TOILET PAPER! To A EX CONVICT, That NO PAPER shit is FREEDOM FTW 1%er.

[Boxcarro]

Paul call me MY PHONE MINIUTES is GOOD until MIDNIGHT.

[Boxcarro]

http://psychiatricmayhem.blogspot.com

[KaBar2]

Psychiatric mayhem, indeed.

[xen]

Well shit the bed, Kabar is still around \m/
I just fucked around and ignored every piece of solid advice given in this thread except one

If you want to hop a train, hop a train

I've been a home bum for, shit, maybe 5 years now, (not implying I was a full time tramp but the several thousand miles I roamed makes me think I was) walking the straight and narrow and ignoring the call of the wild trying to keep the ball and chain happy. That didn't work out so good and out the door I went. I have always kept my pack ready to go at any given moment, ya know, just in case, and within 6 hours the last few years became meaningless and my pack became necessary.

I had it stashed out under my favorite bridge for when either the place I was crashing at got tired of me or vice versa. I had a few drinks in me and was on my way to a sweet squat I'd found when an empty southbound coal train stopped to let a IM/DS pass. I had big plans on running down to get on the rear unit when it aired up. I climbed up on that bitch and it started pulling out when I had 3 rungs left to climb. I threw my shit in and busted my ass throwing myself inside.

I didn't realize I was dead until I came alive, sitting on the cross bar and feeling the wind in my hair on a perfect late fall night with the stars and the scenery and everything was OK until I realized I was wearing loose fitting clothes, had no water, just a half drank fifth, only a vague idea where I was going, and needed to do more push ups cuz I killed myself trying to swing my dumb ass back up on that cross bar.

Long story short: 2 stolen pairs of pants and a stolen gallon of Orange Drink later, I made it back to familiar territory and can't wait to do it again.

*edit When I left the crashing spot, I had no plans at all about hopping a train. Strictly spontaneous choice

*edit2 Thanks Memphis bums. You know what I mean.

[Boxcarro]

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