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Riding with ‘ghosts’ from Hagerstown to Altoona

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

On a Friday, I quit my job. The following Tuesday, I was in Weed, looking for a freight. Maybe I

Browning once wrote: “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp / Or what’s a heaven for?” He understood,

We all need secret lives. I had to flee again, back into the wilderness aboard a freight. They say the

On Friday night, August 2, 1991, I rode Tri-Met bus #17 to the Southern Pacific yard adjoining the Eastmoreland golf