These photos were all taken by Jake Burghart on his grandfather's Pentax K1000 and we think they are a nice insight into the trip.
In the oil-fields. I have never made a better choice in my life. So I decided to show it. Eventually I told him I was tired and needed to sleep, and he seemed to nod and then just wandered off deeper into the woods without a flashlight. A lot of people want this lifestyle to stay low-key.
So we did.". "That lure, I think, probably remains today.
Tuck's face is grizzled - he has spent many nights sleeping rough and his voice speaks of tobacco. They are all super pleasant to talk to and assure you it is only American governments that they hate and not the people. Another warns: "Never jump on a moving train unless you can count the bolts on each wheel - or it's going too fast.". The train crew wasn't serving tea until 7am, and they made a big show of how it was impossible to get it early, bribes were out of the question, and then randomly they just brought it for us. Would I have incredible stories to tell my children and grandchildren? The Freedom and Danger of Train-Hopping Across America Adventurer and photographer Mike Ranta spent five months riding freight trains through the American West and documenting what he saw.
There are no statistics available related directly to train hopping. We bought this little handycam a few days before leaving with the intention of filming everything.
But even before that, post-Civil War soldiers found their way home on the rails.
The train? VICE: Mike, when did you first hop a train? Luckily we did because filming anything on the train was strictly forbidden, but then we brought out this camera and the train crew was all, “Oh that’s fine.”.
But trains held a kind of mythical power in my mind, a power that scared me. I carried only a knife at that time, and I knew that there were people out there whom I couldn't handle. First devised as a way of putting Britt on the map, it's now the longest running hobo gathering in the US. I've fallen in love a few times.
He had another Social Security card to pick up. This particular beach was like a full Daytona spring break party scene. Recently, I caught up with an adventurer and photographer named Mike Ranta who spent five months last year riding freight trains through the Southwest, the Northwest, and on into Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas.
Adventurer and photographer Mike Ranta spent five months riding freight trains through the American West and documenting what he saw.
(Photo: Suroosh Alvi and Alex Chitty. Is there a metaphor for your photography?I try not to let my own interpretation of a moment influence my photography. All the yards are like that in Ny.
The sun had just set, and it kept getting darker and darker, but he wouldn't leave.
"Losing limbs is very common," he says.
Getting killed was pretty likely too. It might not have been safe, but it was easy. Oil tankers passed on the horizon of some of the most contested waters in the world, while beachgoers waded into the ocean to take selfies. I don't really know how many thousands of miles I ended up going or how many trains I rode, but I remember just about everyone I met.
On this journey, was there a writer or artist or adventurer with whom you identified?I really tried to be myself. Still there are a lot of really crazy things that I just don't feel comfortable telling a lot of people about.
I rolled out my bag and slept uneasily with a knife and all of my gear close because I knew he wasn't too far away.
I could never have imagined the things I have seen since then. It won't even notice".
They said living “off the grid” would be cool.
Air conditioning is a luxury in the dog days of summer on the Union Pacific lines, so people must find other ways to stay cool. Funny thing is, I bet he slept like a baby knowing I was more afraid of him than he was of me. What if I'd stayed on the tracks for the rest of that year? Right off the plane we jumped on a 23 hour train ride from Tehran in the far north to the Strait of Hormuz in the far south. A street vendor rinsing the paintball stains from his Trump poster in an open sewer, poetic on so many levels. Riding trains can be as safe as you make it, and yes, people get beat up by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. 5 comments: Anonymous said... Lucky you didn't stop in Selkirk that yard is a bastard to get out of unseen. Check out photos and a new documentary from VICE founder Suroosh Alvi, whose crew got incredible access to Iran just before everything fell apart. I have a lot of stories that I will tell friends about: close calls, stolen pizzas, hobo handjobs, just some really bizarre stuff. Let's go over a few of the key dangers associated with hopping freight trains: 1) Determining the Speed of a Train: The biggest mistake that most greenhorns (rookies/newbies) make is trying to catch a train that's going too fast, or worse, trying to jump off a train that's going too fast. ". Living in suburbia during high school, I managed to get in a lot of fights, saw two stabbings, and had a friend get shot.
Everything else went into a pack.
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Tuck is one of those who went in search of work, and ended up seeing the world. After two days of rain in Oregon, a train rider takes advantage of a break in the rain to hang his socks to dry.
In the Depression Era of the 1930s, the unemployed took to the rails to try and find work - crossing vast stretches of land in an open grain car, or huddled inside a box car - hiding from the "bulls", as the railroad police were called. By signing up to the VICE newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from VICE that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. "Back in college we used to build a truck on wheels that fitted on the railway tracks. It’s a weird time capsule of a museum that seemed to not really be open. When we met with the head of Iran’s government-sanctioned militia, or filmed at the old US embassy building with a guy who tortured US diplomats back in 1979 (and has since died of COVID-19), we used the Sony FS7 shoulder rigs we typically use on VICE shoots.
For Kevin, it represents "the last red-blooded American adventure.
I went back to the Greyhound station and slept under a counter all day. Pretty girls, too. I would consider the work photojournalistic and not fine art. Not that such stories put off the determined recreational riders. The adrenalin rush associated with riding the rails is often cited by seasoned train hoppers as their drug of choice. Best Trainhopping Documentary I've Seen Yet Freight Travels: a home movie from Megan Hess on Vimeo. He is retired from train hopping now - lucky not to have been arrested or become one of the fatalities associated with trespassing on railroad property. Next we took a boat to Qeshm Island—if we wanted to make a travel doc, we were definitely getting that part done.
Basically, was this freight-train journey adventure first and photography second, or was high-quality photography your priority all along?The photography was really an accident that I let get out of control. So why do modern Americans, who have safe lives, choose to take up such a dangerous activity? Everything was so amazing, and I wanted to show my friends how much more fun I was having. Filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa's new documentary, Which Way Home, follows child migrants as they leave their families behind and follow a perilous trail, train-hopping and … Kids bussed in from suburban schools all around Tehran dress up in their best anti-American street mime attire. But why would people risk their lives hitching a ride on a freight train today?
Without any guidance, I knew that I was in way over my head, but I really couldn't seem to stop myself—I couldn't find a reason why I should stop myself. "We started hitching and ended up in Odessa, Texas. I also enjoyed exploring city drainage tunnels, running through the storm drains from the opening I found at the riverbank north of town.
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And immediately, I felt the power of that train, felt the immovable force of it—felt the potential for adventure and travel. We worked there for a while, then as we about to get back on the highway and start hitching, this old guy says 'Where you going? BBQs, impromptu hookah lounges, camel rides, parasailing, lots of music, and just general great vibes. The train stopped, everyone piled off, and people started casually taking turns to enter a small mosque.
“I am in thy service Khomeni”: These religious students seemed a little more hardline than some of the others. I still have a scar on my knee from the one time that I jumped off a train when it was moving too fast through town, but it wasn't serious, and other than that, I never hurt myself. Because we was so poor I felt like a burden, so me and my oldest brother decided to leave.
But in California, there are about 90 railroad-related deaths every year, according to Operation Lifesaver.
But I would say that it's not romantic, it's illegal and it's dangerous. I would go through towns and see "Podunksville Family Liquor and Buffet" and then I would find it on a map and figure out where I was.
Homeless guys who didn't start riding until their 50s and it completely changed their lives. I asked him about his experiences. Except he was older, almost completely bald, and the hair that he did have was long and white.
If you're too tired and take a risk on a bad ride because you can't stand waiting in that ditch any longer, I won't stop you, but I'll be waiting for the next one.
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