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minus-squareSimulation6@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoHobo sort of implies a migrant worker. Tramp is someone that travels about, but isn’t interested in working. Both used to be associated with freighthopping trains. Do people stowaway on trains anymore?
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoI have to assume some people still hop trains. At the very least some crust punk squatter types probably do
minus-squareDisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 days agoThere’s nowhere to go on a train tho. They’re all tanks and shipping containers.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 days agoI assume train hoppers have tricks to get inside boxcars. Also there are different types of cars besides tank cars and boxcars, like coil cars: And open-top hopper cars:
minus-squareDisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoThat’s my point, I never see boxcars anywhere.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoWhen you say shipping containers, do you mean these guys?
minus-squareDisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoYes. I work next to a train yard and 90% of what I see are these guys.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoInteresting. In my neck of the woods, I mostly see boxcars and tank cars. When I lived in the western US I would see those a lot though.
minus-squaredoingthestuff@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 days agoThere are no trains anymore.
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoThen how did I get stuck at a railroad crossing today?
Hobo sort of implies a migrant worker. Tramp is someone that travels about, but isn’t interested in working. Both used to be associated with freighthopping trains. Do people stowaway on trains anymore?
I have to assume some people still hop trains. At the very least some crust punk squatter types probably do
There’s nowhere to go on a train tho. They’re all tanks and shipping containers.
I assume train hoppers have tricks to get inside boxcars. Also there are different types of cars besides tank cars and boxcars, like coil cars:
And open-top hopper cars:
That’s my point, I never see boxcars anywhere.
When you say shipping containers, do you mean these guys?
Yes. I work next to a train yard and 90% of what I see are these guys.
Interesting. In my neck of the woods, I mostly see boxcars and tank cars. When I lived in the western US I would see those a lot though.
There are no trains anymore.
Then how did I get stuck at a railroad crossing today?
Aliens.