Abdul Rahimov
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- 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.
Posts by Abdul Rahimov:
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Time traveling wishes and a coal car ride from San Jose to Oakland
For some time, I had been speculatively eyeing elderly pedestrians and baby strollers....
Reflections on a 5-mile freight-hopping ride to RFK stadium
As the pig train trundled by, I cautiously touched its side. My hand....
Back in the saddle: Watching shooting stars from flatcars
It would work out this way: my first train in 15 months would be the....
Riding with ‘ghosts’ from Hagerstown to Altoona
It was time, after a long and gloomy hibernation in perhaps America's foulest....
Urban blight in Buffalo: Exploring Central Terminal
My target was Buffalo's magnificent, long-abandoned train station, the Central Terminal. After two days....
Hallucinations, freezing and lessons from veteran tramps in the Rockies in 1992
I'd bought a discounted round-trip Greyhound ticket to Salt Lake, my jumping-off point.....
Farewell to the Modoc and freight-hopping advice from hoboes
This has been a sad summer of watching the Union Pacific prepare to....
I felt ‘kidnapped’ after hopping aboard the train to Royal Gorge
My plan was to hit two separate lines, the Royal Gorge route and....
Train-hopping the wrong way again on Santa Fe’s Raton route
The Santa Fe's Raton route's existence is secure; though a secondary freight line,....
Dehydration, an angry hobo and testing my limits from Las Vegas to San Bernardino
The Vegas-to-San Bernardino, Calif., run on the Union Pacific had long intrigued me.....
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