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It's the yard in Colton, CA. Inland Empire, socal. The yard is right next to the 10 freeway and there's homeless people at every offramp panhandling the cars that are exiting the freeway. There are camps right next to the freeway/train tracks there, but the spot I left food at isn't one of those. It's a much less visible spot. I've noticed a lot of homeless camps since moving out here. I don't know if it's always been that way or if it's because the economy is so bad out here. (One of the hardest hit areas in the nation as far as drop in home values go, since the real estate bubble burst.) When we dropped off the U-Haul rental truck we used to move, it was early Sunday morning and the place wasn't open yet. There were several people sitting outside waiting for it to open with trash bags full of stuff. I couldn't figure out why a bunch of homeless people were waiting for a U-Haul place to open up, till my husband pointed out there were storage units there. I guess they rent and stay in a storage unit during the day? Sorry I'm as wordy as Kabar. :)

Hey I'm new here, I stumbled onto this forum via someone's graff blog. I read about the first 12 pages of this thread (really interesting) before realizing the thread is about 6 times that long. So I'm jumping in without reading the entire thing (but I probably will when I'm bored). I'm wondering what sorts of supplies might be handy to leave for people who are riding the rails. I recently moved near a major train yard and I've noticed a lot of train hoppers around. I came across a spot where people had obviously camped and cooked food. My husband and I went back a few weeks ago and left bottled water, some cans of soup (with pull tabs), breakfast bars and handy-wipes. I haven't been back by to see if it's been discovered and taken yet. It occurred to me the other day that socks might be a good thing to leave as well. What else might come in handy for people traveling the trains?