--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bobbartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
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> That line through Vegas is a main artery. I see an enormous amount of traffic go through there. A lot of double-stacks too. I always wanted to hop a freight just for fun but never had the balls. I lived in LA and they would crawl out of the harbor and go up Alameda Street at a snail's pace. I thought if I ever did that I would have to pack a gun with me because I didn't know who I'd meet or where I'd end up. Maybe it's a good thing I never carried out that fantasy. Sounds dangerous. I'll leave that to you, Mickey, and reading your stories will suffice.
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The double stacks are the hot shots. We used to make the jump on the north bounds by hanging out south of Charleston BLVD just off Main Street. The engineer would stop the train when the first locomotive crossed the train trestle over Charleston. It took a few minutes to make the crew change and the train was off again. It was the Union Pacific Railroad. The train ran up through Salt Lake City to Ogden where it hit the eastbound track that went thru Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and into Illinois.
It's been about 15 years since I jumped a train. I do miss it, but....I'm old and soft now. I went camping with friends a couple of years ago. I woke up the next morning with my back all stoved up from sleeping on the ground. I had to roll over on my stomach and push myself up. "Take me to a hotel!" I said. I was worse than Kate Goselin on Sarah Palin's Alaska. "It better have a bar and a restaurant in it too!"
Yes, the rails were dangerous. It's a young man's game. Google "Freight Train Riders of America" and read about a guy named "Sidetrack." He was on the rails when I was. We couldn't wait for him to get caught. He was a serial killer.
In the link this guy pretty much knows the rails.
http://www.digihitch.com/article1525.html
