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re: I was just driving with a train through western Nebraska in the dark and snow

Posted on 11/29/22 at 10:51 am to
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
53981 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 10:51 am to
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On a DPU, that's the remote controlled locomotive on the rear of the train, it was a "hobo". fricking bums piss all over the place.

I've wondered if y'all have cams on the DPUs? I figured there would be, but I've seen hobo videos with guys riding in DPUs. Do some not work, or do y'all just not care sometimes?
Posted by MBclass83
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
9358 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 10:52 am to
Gone like yesterday
Gone like a freight train
Gone like a soldier in the civil war
Bang Bang
Posted by ImaObserver
Member since Aug 2019
2286 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:29 am to
Your occupant may have been "Hobo Shoestring".
LINK
Posted by xGeauxLSUx
United States of Atrophy
Member since Oct 2008
20997 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:36 am to
I used to hear the loud whistle
Of a steam engine that was short lived

Gliding the rails like a guided missle
That had no more to give

I saw the men that shoveled the coal
To launch the projectile towards the goal

I saw the man just a train conductin'
He was very fond of men buttfu
.........nevermind.
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49224 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:21 pm to
quote:

I've wondered if y'all have cams on the DPUs? I figured there would be, but I've seen hobo videos with guys riding in DPUs. Do some not work, or do y'all just not care sometimes?



The cams aren't livestreamed. They're recorded along with the event recorder.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22164 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:52 pm to
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wasn’t me

Of course not. He said he was looking into the engine cab, not under the greasy blanket you're using in your filthy boxcar.
Posted by furrydogs
USA
Member since Oct 2007
448 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:56 pm to
Were you near Alliance?
Posted by HoboDickCheese
The overpass
Member since Sep 2020
9368 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:57 pm to
quote:

Of course not. He said he was looking into the engine cab, not under the greasy blanket you're using in your filthy boxcar.

Posted by spacewrangler
In my easy chair with my boots on..
Member since Sep 2009
9750 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:51 pm to
Train Song by Allgood is the best song about trains

Allgood - Train Song
Posted by Chingon Ag
Member since Nov 2018
2799 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 10:13 pm to
Disagree. I say it’s Texas 1947.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27356 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:11 pm to
quote:

I hear the train a comin'
It's rolling round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine
since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone
When I was just a baby
my mama told me "Son,
always be a good boy,
don't ever play with guns"
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowing,
I hang my head and cry
I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars
Well I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free
But those people keep a movin'
And that's what tortures me
Well if they freed me from this prison
If that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124179 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:17 pm to
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Careful fr33 might come in here and write a poem about this



You ain’t lying

quote:

I matched the speed of the rear engine of the train for miles. I could see over into the cab and the inside lighting looked incredibly cozy, and romantic. I was the only vehicle on the road and I paced with the train until we got into town. Sometimes I saw movement in the cab and I wondered who was in there and I wanted to experience that light on the cold night as the snow just started to blow


This is some great imagery. Great setup really.

You could paint a story of a man driving in the snow and watching the people in the train. Living oh so different lives. The contrast is striking.
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