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Abdul Rahimov
Abdul Rahimov

Abdul Rahimov has a Ph.D. in Russian history from Stanford. He studied earlier at Harvard and grew up in Illinois in a railroad-dominated town.Rahimov prefers to use a pen name to avoid attracting unnecessary attention from railroads. He lives on the East Coast.

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Blame my 4-year hiatus of jumping trains on global warming but I’m back

November 11, 2019 Abdul Rahimov 91 Views

The timeline of this 70-mile ride is as follows: I reach the yard at 11 a.m. The train arrives in

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Taking the plunge in Porto

November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 Abdul Rahimov 173 Views

PORTUGAL — Some of us don’t travel the world looking for bridges to jump from; it only works out that

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My jump into the freezing water in Bosnia

December 3, 2016December 4, 2016 Abdul Rahimov 102 Views

Some places enable you to mix history and reckless recreation. Mostar, Bosnia, is one of them. I was in Bosnia

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Detroit Revisited: Off the beaten path

April 17, 2016April 18, 2016 Abdul Rahimov 110 Views

Fifteen years later, I was back in Detroit. On my first, long-ago trip, two weeks before 9/11, I left my

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Back on the rails – jumping trains in Baltimore

December 18, 2014January 11, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 72 Views

As December of another year squandered in the East loomed, the time came to pursue “rare miles” in a hyper-congested

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Jumping trains and riding the rails carries risks and scenic rewards

April 9, 2014March 14, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 106 Views

In another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that

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Hobo Pride: Freight-train hopping to Lynchburg

November 16, 2013March 8, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 142 Views

Ernest Hemingway hopping a freight train between boxcars to get to Walloon Lake in  1916. (Wikipedia Commons) After 17 months

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Sightseeing in Camden – an unauthorized adventure

August 12, 2012August 12, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 110 Views

Not many tourists go sightseeing in Camden these days. I did on New Year’s Day, in pursuit of a public

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West Coast freight-jumping beats the East Coast (Cheyenne to Ogden)

August 11, 2012August 10, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 96 Views

It had been six years since my last long Western ride. Back in 2006, I’d ridden Elko-Salt Lake City and

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Catching trains in Maryland and nearly blinded for life

August 8, 2012August 7, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 82 Views

This was one of the fastest, smoothest catch-outs ever. I dropped off my rental car at the Citgo station in

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