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Description: Three part blog series on train hopping and travel.
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Subject: Railroad travel, Railroad travel--United States, Blogs, Hitchhiking, Poetry, Tramps
Creator: Rees, Ted
Publisher: drunkenboat.org
Language: English
Coverage: 2014
Type: Text, StillImage, MovingImage
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection are either government-created or have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: This site is a train hopping photo documentary annotated with the interviews and stories of the tramps that Dale Wickum met as he travelled across the United States over the course of several years beginning in the early 1970’s. The site includes a map of the freight routes he travelled and an index to the photos and annotations.
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Subject: Railroad travel--United States--Pictorial works; Tramps--Pictorial Works
Creator: Wickum, Dale
Publisher: http://followingthetracks.com/
Language: English
Coverage: United States, 20th Century
Type: Image; Text
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: Listings of rail yards by state, city, and railroad company names.
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Subject: Railroads--United States
Creator: Systems Operator
Publisher: HoboLists.com
Language: English
Coverage: 2015-04-04, United States
Type: Text
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection are either government-created or have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: An article drawn from the experiences of and photos taken by a freighthopping artist about his travels through the United states and Mexico.
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Subject: Tramps; Railroad travel; Railroad travel -- United States; Blogs; Subculture
Publisher: proof.nationalgeographic.com/
Language: English
Coverage: United States; Mexico, 21st century
Type: Collection
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: Author, Alex Kershaw, recounts his experience of riding the rails in this blog entry. He tells of how riding the rails has evolved into a dangerous lifestyle filled with drugs, gangs, and murder. He provides accounts of various train riders who have murdered or been murdered along the way.
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Subject: Railroad travel -- United States -- History; Tramps; Blogs; Subculture
Creator: Kershaw, Alex
Publisher: http://www.alexkershaw.com/riding-the-rails/
Language: English
Coverage: United States, 19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century
Type: Image; Text
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
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Description: An in-depth article describing the railriding hobo culture and their employment union ca. 1900.
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Subject: Tramps; Railroad travel; Railroad travel United States; Blogs; Subculture
Creator: Hix, Lisa
Publisher: collectorsweekly.com
Language: English
Coverage: United States, 1870-1940
Type: Image/Text
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and ArchiveIt do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: An in-depth article describing the rail-riding hobo culture and their employment union ca. 1900.
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Subject: Tramps; Railroad travel; Railroad travel -- United States; Blogs; Subculture
Creator: Hix, Lisa
Publisher: collectorsweekly.com
Language: English
Coverage: United States, 1870-1940
Type: collection
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: An article describing the culture and language of modern day freighthoppers
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Subject: Tramps; Railroad travel; Railroad travel United States; Blogs; Subculture
Creator: Lee, W. Anderson
Publisher: www.wandrlymagazine.com
Language: English
Type: Image/Text
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and ArchiveIt do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
Description: An article describing the culture and language of modern-day freighthoppers
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Subject: Tramps; Railroad travel; Railroad travel -- United States; Blogs; Subculture
Creator: Lee, W. Anderson
Publisher: www.wandrlymagazine.com
Language: English
Coverage: United States, 21st Century
Type: collection
Date: 2015-11-14
Rights: This collection is made accessible to the public without restriction. The San Jose State University School of Information and Archive-It do not own the copyright to these materials; contact the copyright holders for further information. All materials in this collection have been archived under a claim of fair use for educational and research purposes.
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