Showing posts with label Hobo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hobo. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Monday, May 19, 2008
Hobo Film Festival is on tour
I always wanted to hop on a train and see the country in the true hobo way but I never did. I would love to see the film from Shawn Lukitsch and to see what he has to offer. I hope someone makes it to one of his showings and gives me a full review of the film.
~Corey aka C.S. Webbspun
Photo is from the New York Times
For nearly as long as rail lines have crisscrossed the country, there have been stories about wanderers covertly climbing aboard train cars and riding away from problems or speeding toward some glimmering promise on the horizon.
The paths of train hoppers, tramps, hobos and travelers, looking for work, adventure or merely free transportation, have been recorded in lyrics and in literature. Jack Kerouac, Jack London and John Steinbeck have written about them. They have populated the songs of Merle Haggard
and Woody Guthrie.
More recently, filmmakers have documented the experience of riding the rails across the country’s varied terrain. And some of those works were recently screened in a storefront community center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as part of a traveling cinematic exhibition called the Hobo Film Festival, which is progressing from state to state by way of a $200 Toyota station wagon driven by a 31-year-old train hopper from Asheville, N.C., named Shawn Lukitsch.
Read the entire story in the New York Times.
~Corey aka C.S. Webbspun
Photo is from the New York Times
For nearly as long as rail lines have crisscrossed the country, there have been stories about wanderers covertly climbing aboard train cars and riding away from problems or speeding toward some glimmering promise on the horizon.
The paths of train hoppers, tramps, hobos and travelers, looking for work, adventure or merely free transportation, have been recorded in lyrics and in literature. Jack Kerouac, Jack London and John Steinbeck have written about them. They have populated the songs of Merle Haggard
and Woody Guthrie.
More recently, filmmakers have documented the experience of riding the rails across the country’s varied terrain. And some of those works were recently screened in a storefront community center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as part of a traveling cinematic exhibition called the Hobo Film Festival, which is progressing from state to state by way of a $200 Toyota station wagon driven by a 31-year-old train hopper from Asheville, N.C., named Shawn Lukitsch.
Read the entire story in the New York Times.
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Here are some hobo markings and what they mean
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Lets Go Ride the Train
If you are going to New Hampshire soon and you are looking for something fun and unique to do, check out the Hobo Rail Road. See the sights, eat good food and enjoy a ride on the rails. Good family fun for everyone.
Tracks Ahead is a Public Broadcasting show and caters to folks who love trains, riding the rails and to travel. Check it out and see if you like it as well.
Trains.com sponsors the Tracks Ahead show and they are all about trains and models trains. Give them a look and have fun riding on the train or playing with one.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
A Hobo goes to Jamaica
This is the start of the band Railroad Earth's journey to Jam in Jamaica tour which took place from 3-26-06 to 4-2-06. Part of an upcoming documentary.
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