Life of a hobo Mark Nichols — aka ‘Hobo Shoestring’ — finds freedom, danger in train hopping ...
A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you're inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side.
Dancer vividly remembers the first time he hopped a freight train. It was a warm October day in 2020, and he’d stationed himself north of Longmont, Colorado, near the railway yard, where the train ...