Tribe.net. Local Connections wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/306caf1c-dc8d-474e-8f20-04ffcebbf738 2007-07-30T00:08:29Z 2007-07-27T00:26:46Z

<div>check out this photo essay.... <br/>http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2007/hobo_band/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 1 reply </div>

wickissick 2007-07-27T00:26:46Z vern http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/9bd7dc05-5fd1-4688-ac2a-2c7239320772 2007-05-09T22:48:51Z 2007-05-09T18:56:24Z

<div>we've been living in a 1973 winnebago for a couple years. We're filmmakers and we're filmming a hobo documentary. Now we want to learn the rails and the jungles. Just wondering if anyone is willing to help us out... let me know. here's our site: www.thehobosoul.com <br/>vern <br/>www.thehobosoul.com</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 1 reply </div>

vern 2007-05-09T18:56:24Z dinkus http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/380e64f1-7538-4204-8d7b-cdee72052474 2007-04-10T17:40:46Z 2007-04-10T17:40:46Z

<div>hey is there anyone nice enough out there to let me in on their tcs ID that they worked hard to get? nobody i talk to these days seems to have a functional one. it would just make my days a little easier. you can message me. thanks team</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

dinkus 2007-04-10T17:40:46Z noska http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/4aab005c-84a9-43d4-a0de-5324196fe9bf 2006-08-17T16:13:50Z 2006-08-16T11:38:58Z

<div> <br/>PRESS RELEASES <br/> <br/>Currently at Alert Level 2 <br/>August 5, 2005 <br/>Association of American Railroads Threat Advisory System <br/> <br/>The AAR system is not linked directly to either of the federal systems, but is based on independent threshold criteria contained in the Railroad Security Plan. The decision to change threat levels within the AAR system is decided jointly by executives of the Class I Railroads based on receipt of credible intelligence information from national security agencies. <br/> <br/>Alert Level 1 – “New” normal day-to-day operations: Corresponds to a general non-specific threat of possible terrorist activity but warrants only a routine security posture. <br/> <br/>Alert Level 2 – Heightened security awareness: Corresponds to a general non-specific threat of possible terrorist activity involving railroad industry personnel and facilities. <br/> <br/>Alert Level 3 – Credible threat of attack: Corresponds to an increased, credible and more specific threat of terrorist activity against railroad personnel and facilities. <br/> <br/>Alert Level 4 – Confirmed threat of attack: A confirmed threat against the railroad industry exists, an actual attack against the railroad industry has occurred, an attack in North America causing mass casualties has occurred, or other imminent actions create grave concerns about the safety of railroad operations. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 3 replies </div>

noska 2006-08-16T11:38:58Z raven http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/18e1ee90-d84b-4f0e-b626-76e9f7ad5846 2006-03-29T20:47:55Z 2006-03-29T20:47:55Z

<div>Richmond/Philly i know 'tis a quick ride. <br/>any advice, ya'll? i ain't never hopped onna East Coast and my crew change is a couple ov years old and LIES! <br/>help a brutha out! (bless agypsy&amp;you arr repaid tenfold</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

raven 2006-03-29T20:47:55Z paindog http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/6ee3cb12-77f4-4d74-9b08-847ec8a4603e 2005-08-26T19:00:45Z 2005-07-06T05:48:59Z

<div>What's the best route and where the fuck can I get out now that all the spot's I used to use are fehkin' fehkt??? <br/> Also any one gonna be in SF around the 20th of july??? LJ and I need couches, man, fehkin' stat!!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 2 replies </div>

paindog 2005-07-06T05:48:59Z noska http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/d184f931-aef8-422f-b962-0a7610e86c81 2005-02-06T21:52:32Z 2005-02-06T08:52:41Z

<div>what do you know about hopping outside the states? gemany,france,laws,gangs,jungles?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 1 reply </div>

noska 2005-02-06T08:52:41Z banjolismo http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/7119dd98-ec6f-44bd-86ec-030e1f3df78e 2005-02-06T01:41:04Z 2005-02-02T08:30:46Z

<div>this sunday, with the revenge of the bleeding eye. <br/>also, catch the H.G.s at the ivy room on the 16th</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 2 replies </div>

banjolismo 2005-02-02T08:30:46Z mosca http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/f15140c6-a181-4d8a-a883-a845570fb7e4 2005-01-24T22:48:13Z 2004-12-04T10:41:44Z

<div>so up an d csx have been caught wit their pant sdown if you havent noticed ( an dif you ve bbeen ridin eithier one youve noticed) <br/>up has been runnin four days behind im 's outta long beach accorroding to my schedules(and i have access to their employee sites) an dhave embargoed several other im's they have also started running cabooses o n the end of trains to pick up starnded crews so expect to se e cabboses out there again esp on the mid line...csx is in a world of shit after the hurricane season and the high traffic voulume that happened during the supposessed lull so their gms are getting parked on every availble siding for get about coal,, and im s are taking upward s of 24 extra hours to reach termanals this would spell doom for the rail road sif the highways werent in bad shape ns and bnsf jsut happened to get it right but fuck them </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 2 replies </div>

mosca 2004-12-04T10:41:44Z ricothunder http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/4e33ca2a-52fc-4213-9760-6002de3561c1 2005-01-04T23:01:25Z 2005-01-02T08:12:54Z

<div>My first ride, I hopped a train to pick up a motorcycle. The year before, I'd been on a roadtrip in Oregon when my motorcycle died. I pushed it to a repair shop and they told me it would take several weeks and untold hundreds to fix. I had neither the time nor the money to fix it then. So I had to head home leaving the bike. Amtrak was mysteriously less expensive than Greyhound, so I took the train home. I'd never ridden a train. Even the passenger train was wonderful! I loved it. <br/> <br/>So a year later, after I'd saved enough to pay for the motorcycle repairs, I was headed back up to pick up my bike. But I didn't even have enough money to take Amtrak back up, so I thought maybe I can hop a freight train. I'd read about doing that somewhere. <br/> <br/>I hopped a northbound Southern Pacific freight right out of the passenger station in Sacramento. I was drinking good whiskey, smoking a cigar. The fireball sun was sinking into the golden fields as the train reached open country and picked up speed. I could not believe myself, what I was capable of. I was watching the world go by from the comfort of an open boxcar. I was on top of the world. I felt all-powerful and omnipotent. I'd done it. The words, "Did it did it did it," kept bouncing around in my head. <br/> <br/>What's your story?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 4 replies </div>

ricothunder 2005-01-02T08:12:54Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/1fa83192-1d68-4149-951c-6c8c3af4d969 2004-12-09T13:03:13Z 2004-12-09T13:03:13Z

<div> <br/> <br/>CHICAGO, Ill. - Canadian National and Union Pacific announced Friday they would redirect some of their interchanged freight traffic away from the Chicago area, the world's third-busiest rail hub, in an effort to reduce congestion, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune and information from UP and CN. <br/> <br/>The decision by the two railroads to divert some traffic away from Chicago could be the first of more moves to bypass North America's largest rail hub if the region's gridlocked system isn't overhauled. The CN-UP plan, to be phased in over a three-month period, is estimated to cut a cross-country shipment’s transit time in some instances by up to five days. <br/> <br/>UP and CN will change interchange locations to effect the speed-up. Freight traffic moving between western Canada and Texas now will be consolidated and interchanged at Superior, Wis., instead of Chicago. Instead of moving through Wisconsin on CN’s former Wisconsin Central and interchanging to UP’s former Missouri Pacific, CN will hand off traffic to UP in Superior, and it will move south through Minneapolis and Kansas City. Freight from Wisconsin that would have previously moved south to Chicago on the former WC and interchanged to UP there, now will be sent west to interchange onto Union Pacific at St. Paul, Minn. <br/> <br/>Traffic between Wisconsin and Arkansas and Texas will still move to Chicago on WC, but will be on a new run-through service that will interchange between CN’s Illinois Central and UP near Salem, in southern Illinois, rather than at Chicago. <br/> <br/>Traffic moving between eastern Canada and the south-central United States will be interchanged from CN to UP at Memphis, Tenn., instead of Chicago. Furthermore, it will take a short-cut on CN itself, utilizing new trackage right on the Elgin, Joliet &amp; Eastern between Griffith, Ind., on CN’s Grand Trunk Western from Ontario and Michigan, to CN’s Illinois Central at south suburban Matteson, Ill. Thus while CN gets less of a line-haul on traffic to be interchanged at Superior, it gets more of a line-haul on the traffic through Memphis. <br/> <br/>CN said the overall traffic shift would allow it to divert about 14,000 to 15,000 freight carloads annually. The railroad emphasized that no jobs will be eliminated as a result. <br/> <br/>While considered a small step, this is a move that has worried Chicago civic leaders for more than two years, reported the Tribune They have been trying to convince federal, state, and local officials to help finance plans to rejuvenate the Chicago area's outdated freight railroad network, which funnels $8 billion worth of freight through the city each year. <br/> <br/>The current operation has railroads moving freight cars at an average 12 miles per hour among 57 yards around the Chicago area. Another 3,500 tractor-trailer trips occur daily as containerized freight is moved between the railroad yards. This traffic jam delays shipments and causes trains to block motorists at hundreds of grade crossings. <br/> <br/>The UP Chicago agreement was one of four announced in the past month by Canadian National aimed at speeding the movement of freight on its system. The most far-reaching of the announcements, under which Canadian National and Canadian Pacific agreed to share tracks in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area, could make the Port of Vancouver more attractive to shippers now using the Port of Long Beach in southern California.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-12-09T13:03:13Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/c5436cb3-a6b5-4350-adda-d4e7b60b3ab7 2004-07-16T05:56:07Z 2004-07-16T05:56:07Z

<div> <br/>Union Pacific takes a drastic step to reduce congestion <br/> <br/>OMAHA, Nebr. - Union Pacific, the largest U.S. railroad by sales, will turn away potential cargo traffic and reduce the number of trains it operates in another effort to reduce congestion, according to an article in the Oakland Tribune from the Bloomberg News, plus other news sources. According to an open letter to its customers by Jack Koraleski, UP’s executive vice president-marketing and sales, actions include an allocation system to limit some shipments through "key terminals" by limiting carloadings as well as reducing the overall inventory of railroad cars. <br/> <br/>These key corridors and terminals include the so-called I-5 corridor between Seattle, Wash., and Roseville, Calif. (near Sacramento); the Sunset Route between Los Angeles, Calif., and El Paso, Texas; the Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Utah, route; and the Illinois-Iowa portion of the central corridor, or “Overland Route,” between Chicago and Omaha. <br/> <br/>Examples of specifics include “temporarily limiting” the number of rock and aggregate materials carloads handled in Texas; consolidating selected automobile and chemical trains; regulating the volume of selected agricultural commodities; and capping the number of incremental train starts. Union Pacific said the moves are needed to prepare for a peak season starting this month, when total freight is expected to exceed last year's record volumes. <br/> <br/>UP stopped running three trains in March for United Parcel Service and cut back other customers' shipments. The railroad has added almost 2,500 people to train service employment ranks, and by the end of September expects to have another 1,250 finish their introductory training. The average train speed for Union Pacific, which cut its second-quarter profit forecast in June, has slowed more than 10 percent compared with last year. <br/> <br/>"This is likely to send panic into the minds of some shippers," said James Valentine, a Morgan Stanley analyst in Chicago who rates the company an "underweight" and does not own its shares. "There are no alternatives because of tight capacity at other trucking and rail companies. This is further confirmation that it is going to take Union Pacific longer to fix its problem." <br/> <br/>UP spokeswoman Kathryn Blackwell wouldn't say which customers will be affected or how many of the railroad's 2,500 daily trains will be cut. She said the targets for cuts are the most congested terminals such as Los Angeles, Houston, and Portland, Ore. Traffic that moves by a rail-truck combination is the biggest business in Southern California, and Houston is a center for chemical shipments. <br/> <br/>Total Union Pacific shipments this year have risen 2.5 percent, the slowest growth rate among major U.S. railroads, and CEO Dick Davidson said last month that the company had to forgo some shipments because of lack of train crews that contributed to delays. Competitor Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), the second-largest U.S. railroad by sales and the other major railroad in the West, has increased shipments more than 10 percent. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-07-16T05:56:07Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/bf89086d-dcc8-46c4-899f-8b95307379d9 2004-07-05T22:52:23Z 2004-07-05T22:52:23Z

<div>hey there www.bullsheet.com has updated their rosters and the board has some good stuff on it....if you like that sort of thing. happy trails. i'm outta ausitn in 2.5 weeks or so</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-07-05T22:52:23Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/3d3b31d5-d853-42da-a79d-d93a2284371b 2004-04-15T11:47:24Z 2004-04-15T11:47:24Z

<div>here's a website with an aerial view of seattle and it's underlying parts if your interested..... <br/> <br/> <br/>http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/business/dc/map/dcphoto.htm <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-04-15T11:47:24Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/a63140fd-e5e8-4f1c-bd8c-bfc64326eb38 2004-03-09T02:58:55Z 2004-03-08T20:28:16Z

<div>Share the slide show with everyone you know! <br/>http://homepage.mac.com/admanwaters/PhotoAlbum9.html <br/> <br/>ADMAN <br/>Grand Head Pipe of the Hoboes <br/> <br/>if ya wanna look</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 1 reply </div>

wickissick 2004-03-08T20:28:16Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/34896fd8-7ca3-408e-8d43-66bb0d96d0be 2004-03-08T20:33:53Z 2004-03-08T20:33:53Z

<div>this is easier with adobe reader. not sure if it's required but give it a shot. takes a long time with dial-up's... <br/> <br/>http://www.bnsf.com/business/iabu/assets/pdf/intermodal_map.pdf</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-03-08T20:33:53Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/c03addb6-40ec-4a1b-b900-326532f88661 2004-03-07T09:17:37Z 2004-03-07T09:17:37Z

<div>i have a new address and phone number. got a room that's mine for once in my life...go figure....you want it message me</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-03-07T09:17:37Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/c8e788d5-426a-4aed-9d08-1ca926b2dc95 2004-01-30T02:57:20Z 2003-10-21T23:00:48Z

<div>don't know if this'll ever take off but it would be cool to have a way besides email for everyone to get ahold of each other. if it takes off too fast them it'll be even better. for those who ride now, did, or never will. who the fuck cares. it's the goddamn internet. hi mom wick</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 4 replies </div>

wickissick 2003-10-21T23:00:48Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/2f8cacbc-0f94-415b-8e5a-0309d9019fa3 2004-01-16T22:59:38Z 2004-01-16T22:59:38Z

<div>i'm sooo fucking bored and keep ending up in the hospital......#sigh* oh and cn is buying bcr if you care...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 0 replies </div>

wickissick 2004-01-16T22:59:38Z wickissick http://freighttrains.tribe.net/thread/dbd4df43-b441-4315-979a-8e5afce0a300 2003-11-23T12:17:15Z 2003-11-20T21:13:14Z

<div>hey wick here, this place is pretty slow. huh. i still like it better than crusthaven though...shit. fuckin pancreas...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://freighttrains.tribe.net">hobojungle</a> - 1 reply </div>

wickissick 2003-11-20T21:13:14Z