KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 New York Slim has been hoboing since the end of the Vietnam War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 New York Maggie, Slim Tim and Connecticut Shorty, all children of the late and famous hobo, Connecticut Slim. Tim manages a gas station. Maggie and Shorty travel all over the U.S. in a small, van-based motor home, working wherever they stop, usually at motor home parks and places like that. The two sisters are retired from the careers they had as working adults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Yours truly, trying to recover from immersion foot in the boxcar at Britt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Queen of Hobos, Lady Nightingale; of the National Hobo Gospel Singers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Pickin' and grinnin' at the jungle in Britt. Graincar George on far left (with drums), Banjo Rik Palieri, unidentified, unidentified. On the wall in the background is a picture of Stretch leading Burlington Dog on a leash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 The irrespressible Dante Fuchwa, of the Boxcar Boys Ranch. He rode the rails since he was demobilized at the end of the Vietnam War. He is a VERY funny guy, but also a very tough guy, and nobody to fuck around with. He was a LRRP in Vietnam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Taz leading the charge on the "Opening of the Boxcar" before the official Convention starts. This requires five or six strong men, as it has been sealed since the previous August. Preacher Steve of the Boxcar Boys Ranch stands to Taz' left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 The Collinwood Kid, King of the Dumpster Divers. This guy dumpster dives computers, stereo equipment, TV's, tons of food and shares out with anyone who needs it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Liberty Justice ® and an unidentified saw player. This guy is a great guitar player and singer, but he destroyed his lungs smoking cigarettes and now he has to take an oxygen bottle everywhere he goes. He says "Hey, kids, DON'T SMOKE CIGARETTES." Or anything else for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 Entertainment in the jungle at Britt. Danville Dan (seated), The Baloney Kid from Sandwich, Illinois (guitar) and his bass player whose name escapes me right now. Dan was living in his car up at Britt. He had removed the passenger seat and was sleeping on a couple of wooden pallets covered with cardboard. He was selling walking sticks for $3 to raise money for gas and singing for a share of the "passed hat" in the jungle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scare Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 it's a shame none of the pictures work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Black Crow--- I don't understand it, they show up fine for me. Can anybody else see them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 they show up on my pc but not on my mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scare Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 hmmmm... im on a mac... i tried firefox, internet explorer, and safari... none of them worked... odd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonorea Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 You motherfuckers are so gay following the footsteps of a Hobo bum crusted son a bitch that does nothing for this country. You kids a corny,stupid,ignorant,queers,idiots for bieng part of this tread.... p.s Kebeber mis bolas to the 3rd, shut the fuck up annoying asshole... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 fuck off gonorea if you are being serious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourSistersAssCookie Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Homelessness is in showering is out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 yo kabar if you have any quick info on catching out in MA then hit me up thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Mello--What part of Massachusetts are you in? The main route east-west is the CSX line that runs from Boston to Worcester to Springfield to Albany, NY; to Syracuse to Rochester to Buffalo and down the Lake to Cleveland, Ohio. I wouldn't go south from Boston, personally, but that's just me. "Go west," that's my advice. Anybody that finds my posts, opinions or beliefs annoying is certainly free to go elsewhere. Last time I looked, this thread was clearly marked. If ya don't like it, don't come here and then it won't bother you. Some people just love to make themselves unhappy. What a waste of time and effort. (Let's see, where is that "Ignore" button again?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 While looking into the effects of diesel exhaust on human beings, in terms of being stuck on a train within a tunnel, I came across the following surprising information: "Another quote from the technical literature summarizes much of what can be found there. The following is from an American essay by Dennis S. Lachtman, Director for Health Engineering for the EIMCO Mining Machinery company in a section subtitled: "NO significant human hazard seen in over 20 studies." "A number of studies evaluating human response to exposure of Diesel have included experience among Diesel bus workers, Diesel railroad workers, and metal and non-metal miners working with Diesel production equipment and underground. There are more than 20 human health studies involving working populations exposed to Diesel exhaust emissions. As can be seen from a careful review of these studies, NO SIGNIFICANT health hazards have been associated with exposures to Diesel exhaust emissions. More recently, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has reported on epidemiological studies it has performed in underground mines. One of these studies included an MSHA and NIOSH joint study of the relationship between the underground environments in 22 metal and non-metal mines looking at the health of more than 5000 miners. This comprehensive study focuses on the health effects of both silica dust and other substances including those found in Diesel exhaust. … The researchers reported that the data showed an ABSENCE of harmful effects from Diesel exhaust." A major engineering textbook from 1998, which should contain just about everything one needs to know about Diesel emissions. is entitled: Handbook of Air Pollution from Internal Combustion Engines with the subtitle Pollutant Formation and Control. The book is co-authored by a dozen of the world's leading experts on automotive emissions. It should be an excellent source of information on precisely how one might kill people with Diesel exhaust. But in the entire 550 page book, which is rather typical of all other books one can find on this subject, there was only one sentence relevant to our subject. "Although carbon monoxide (CO) emissions are regulated, they will not be considered here, as the Diesel engine combustion process by definition inhibits the production of CO." In other words, the toxic effects from carbon monoxide in Diesel exhaust, including long-term effects, were just not worth bothering with as a pollutant of any kind. The contaminants in diesel exhaust which smells so bad are called aldehydes, to which human beings are very sensitive and which can be detected by the human nose in very low concentrations. This odor is distressing, but not very harmful. Even at the greatest concentrations of diesel exhaust caused by engines operating under maximum load, it would require several hours of exposure to diesel exhaust to inhale enough carbon monoxide to hurt you. Diesel exhaust contains a great deal of oxygen that is not burned in the combustion process, and rather low concentrations of carbon monoxide. So whle being exposed to a heavy concentration of diesel exhaust is quite unpleasant, it is not very likely at all to actually kill someone, and certainly not within a time period of several hours. This is NOT TRUE of gasoline engines, whose exhaust contains a high percentage of carbon monoxide and very little unburned oxygen, and which will kill one pretty quickly. It is also not true of coal smoke, which also contains a high percentage of carbon monoxide. The bottom line is that wet bandanas and breathing through the sleeve of your jacket is a fairly effective way of eliminating the suspended SMOKE PARTICLES out of the air you would breathe while on board a freight train in a tunnel. A Mine Safety Administration (MSA) smoke/dust mask would probably work even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarred Bars Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 he looks like seen :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 kabar, how old are you? if you dont mind me asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ref Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 this is some deep shit and yeah Kabar should write a book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Kobe Bryant--- I'm 57. Another ten years and I can retire from working a regular job. I was a little younger in some of these photographs, like 55 or so. When I was a teenager I always thought that "old people" never had any fun, they never had adventures, never enjoyed anything. I chalk that up to the self-centeredness of youth, I guess. I still have a good time, although I have slowed down some. It's hard to believe that thirty years have gone by since I enlisted in the Marines. I guess that was the first "responsible adult" thing I ever did. I was 26 when I enlisted. Another nine months and I would have been too old to get in at all without a waiver from Headquarters Marine Corps. I have never ridden as many trains recently as I did when I was younger, but last October I was on the rails for a month with my friend Stretch and his dog Burlington. That was the most stress-free month I've spent since I was in my twenties. One of the best parts of that trip was several days we spent under an overpass that crossed over the Norfolk Southern tracks. It was raining and cold and muddy, and we just sat around a spike bucket and kept a fire going with all the scrap wood we could scrounge up. We cooked coffee in a gunboat sitting on top of a railroad tie plate sitting on the open top of the spike bucket. The gunboat we scored out of a restaurant dumpster. The water we got about a block away at the famous Artesian Well in the middle of Jackson. We made pizza soup a few times. It's great. If you get some stale, dry pizza or pizza crusts, you just boil them up with whatever you got, in a gunboat. The pizza dough disintegrates and makes a great stew binder. We would usually cook up pizza soup along with macaroni and some sort of sausage. Trainhopping in winter, or even in the fall, requires one to be pretty damn well-prepared. I don't think I took off my insulated coveralls completely more than three or four times during the entire month of October. Went I was younger I would have never caught out north in October. The Fall and Winter I always spent in a warm climate like Texas, Arizona or California. When I was catching out in the summer, I always went up to the Pacific Northwest where it's nice and cool. (Well, cooler than Texas anyway.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getursaladtossd Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 have you ever came threw detroit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 I've never actually ridden a train through Detroit. The line I was on went through Battle Creek, Lansing, Flint and Port Huron, where I got off the train and went into Canada. The closest I got to the Motor City was about fifty miles or so. I have been through it hitchhiking though, about 1971 or '72. It was just beginning to fall on real hard times back then. After the Detroit riots of 1967 the whole city started going downhill. I just passed through as quickly as I could, Detroit had a reputation back then for being a real violent city and I didn't know anybody I could crash with or anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manic_dm Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 damn...i do not feel like reading all that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Here's a few photos of hobos and tramps taken at the Water Valley Hobo Gathering. Some of them are retired tramps who don't really ride anymore, some of them are "hobos at heart" who have never been tramps, some of them are children or family members of well-known hobos and a few are full-time riders still. http://www.watervalley.net/www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/hobo/hobo06.htm http://www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/hobo.htm National Hobo King Iwegan and National Hobo Queen, Miss Charlotte Iwegin is a full-time, 24-7 tramp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manic_dm Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 who needs pictures when you could just go around town.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john brown Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 yea, detroit hasnt changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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