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Old 26th June 2010, 22:49
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Police: Auburn man falls from train, lands on face

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Auburn, NY -- An Auburn man fell from between two box cars of a slow-moving train Friday afternoon, police said.
Auburn police report that witnesses saw a man clinging to a ladder between cars of a Finger Lakes Railway train around 12:30 p.m. The man lost his grip, witnesses said, and fell face first onto the east side of the tracks behind 134 State St...
Sounds dang lucky to me!


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Old 27th June 2010, 07:49
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Hitching a ride on a freight used to be perfectly normal among poor people in the States, though they wreren't supposed to.

I've never quite worked out what "riding the rods" means.

It figures in a famous blues:

"Dear Sue your Easy Rider struck this burg today
On a south bound rattler side door Pullman car
Seen him there an' he was on the hog."

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Postscript: I've just found this : Riding The Rails

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