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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 

Teaching a friend to jump trains from Washington to Richmond

July 29, 2012April 18, 2015 Abdul Rahimov

After many years of solo riding, I was bringing along someone else for the first time — a coworker who

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Daytripping and ripping my pants on the way to Santa Fe

July 28, 2012July 27, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

“The Santa Fe has a reputation for speed.” That phrase from a business article rings true. The BNSF habitually attaches

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Time traveling wishes and a coal car ride from San Jose to Oakland

July 27, 2012July 26, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

For some time, I had been speculatively eyeing elderly pedestrians and baby strollers from my car. So for everybody’s benefit,

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Reflections on a 5-mile freight-hopping ride to RFK stadium

July 26, 2012July 25, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

As the pig train trundled by, I cautiously touched its side. My hand came flying back toward my face. Yeah,

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Back in the saddle: Watching shooting stars from flatcars

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

It would work out this way: my first train in 15 months would be the toughest to catch. At 1:15 a.m. a

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Riding with ‘ghosts’ from Hagerstown to Altoona

July 24, 2012July 23, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

It was time, after a long and gloomy hibernation in perhaps America’s foulest climate, to resume hitting the rails. From

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Urban blight in Buffalo: Exploring Central Terminal

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

My target was Buffalo’s magnificent, long-abandoned train station, the Central Terminal. After two days of legitimate sightseeing in low-key Canada,

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Hallucinations, freezing and lessons from veteran tramps in the Rockies in 1992

July 22, 2012July 22, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

I’d bought a discounted round-trip Greyhound ticket to Salt Lake, my jumping-off point.  I looked through the bus window and saw

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Farewell to the Modoc and freight-hopping advice from hoboes

July 21, 2012July 22, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

This has been a sad summer of watching the Union Pacific prepare to swallow up the Southern Pacific. Already some

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I felt ‘kidnapped’ after hopping aboard the train to Royal Gorge

July 20, 2012July 19, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

My plan was to hit two separate lines, the Royal Gorge route and the Santa Fe’s Raton Pass route. The

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