Freight hopping in the Pacific Northwest
If you like freight trains, amazing scenery and a surprisingly erudite, engaging, rasp-voiced, drunk, Doug Stanhope-resembling travelling companion, then this is well worth 20 minutes of your time.
Shedloads more of his vids on the YT and all are very good.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 17:20,
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That was extremely good
I'm going straight to his others. It's Carl Spackler doing boxcars after being sacked as greenskeeper.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 30 Mar 2017, 18:31,
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Just search for Stobe the Hobo
if you hadn't already worked that out.
And if you watch as many as I have, consider bunging him a couple of dollars on Patreon :)
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 19:27,
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Jesus, it's an immensely poignant elegy
He's obviously cut adrift from a rich family and searching for an America that doesn't exist anymore. He knows it. But there's a whole load of consolation in that gorgeous, timeless landscape.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 30 Mar 2017, 20:26,
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Not being funny,
but how do you work that out? About the rich family and all that?
I'm a bit autistic so I don't really pick up on these things.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 21:59,
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I think he watched Into The Wild
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 31 Mar 2017, 5:23,
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In his first video
He makes a reference to his family being high society. Plus he has a jag, a piano and gets picked up by a light aircraft at the end of his hoboing.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 31 Mar 2017, 8:05,
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Really good. Gonna check out his other stuff.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 21:32,
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Wow I've wasted my life, I'd love to do spend my time doing this
Thanks for link, might try this on East coast mainline
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Thanks for the link, I enjoyed this
You might like this, though you may have seen it already of course
https://vimeo.com/181628606
edit: this looks like some clickbait shit I've posted here. The above video is a short one of a bloke hopping freight trains out of NY. It's funny : )
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rowlification 今は今, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 23:56,
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Indeed I have, it's a good watch and he's an amiable character.
There's an English bloke with the ridiculous monicker "Brave Dave" who did a freight hop across Canada last year. He seems actually quite a nice fellow, so if you enjoyed Stobe the Hobo you might like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUg0jFO7NTo
(ignore the annoying intro, it gets much better)
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Fri 31 Mar 2017, 0:30,
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