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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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Literature Rail Rides and True Adventures Serial Novels 

Catching trains in Maryland and nearly blinded for life

August 8, 2012August 7, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 321 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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Groundhog Day in Nevada with road kill along the tracks

August 7, 2012January 23, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 411 Views

It had been nearly a year since my ecstatic daylight ride through the Wind River Canyon of Wyoming. I flew

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Exploring St. Louis’ sights not on the tourist map

August 6, 2012August 6, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 261 Views

St. Louis always has occupied a peculiar lacuna in my personal history. It was the big city nearest to my

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Chasing freights in Dick Cheney’s hometown

August 5, 2012January 21, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 269 Views

There are few experiences sadder than returning to a Western railroad yard 12 years later. In 1993, starting out of

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Colorado outlaws and a bloody train ride from Fort Collins to Denver

August 4, 2012August 3, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 228 Views

After six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’d slept behind a

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Riding in darkness with the stars from Hagerstown to Harrisburg

August 3, 2012August 2, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 261 Views

It was time for a training ride, nothing glamorous or long, but a tune-up for a much longer trip up

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Hoboing north from Roanoke to Hagerstown

August 2, 2012August 2, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 407 Views

The Norfolk Southern’s Valley line runs up from Roanoke to Hagerstown, Md., through the Jefferson and George Washington national forests

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Hoboes are disappearing like dinosaurs from Manassas to Hagerstown

August 1, 2012March 18, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 885 Views

Bruce came by, with plans that lifted me out of my post-injury depression. After committing sedition for a couple days,

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Colorado River promises death to derailed hoboes

July 31, 2012February 11, 2015 Abdul Rahimov 254 Views

For three days in 2003 I had relentlessly pushed a rental car through the splendors of western Colorado, what they

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So why do I jump trains?

July 30, 2012July 30, 2012 Abdul Rahimov 323 Views

Three years later, I flew back to far northern California to revisit the place and the memory of those adventures.Now

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