Well BonAmi......Not to steer this in the wrong direction, but there are still a lot of folks riding the rails. However, the violent and somewhat psychotic element has taken over much of what we once romanticized as the hobo. A&E had a superb special on this and there are many articles appearing every week about some crime of robbery, rape, or murder, by someone riding the trains. Lately there was a serial killer apprehended after a long police manhunt complicated by the fact that so many different places were involved and that thanks to the fact he was travelling around the country on the railroads. Even the Hobo Association has a violent side in their "leadership" and like much of our world, things have gotten much more violent on the rails too.

Spaw