Railroad Semantics

Author:
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 1621065405
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
In the fourth Railroad Semantics collection, Aaron takes you along on an epic train journey through desolate stretches of Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. His personal accounts of train hopping are paired with newspaper clippings, photos, rail yard graffiti, and ephemera to fill in the story. In this volume, Aaron survives encounters with police, railroad workers, and hipsters posing as hobos. He drinks under overpasses, is injured alone in the desert, and even takes a legitimate, ticketed Amtrak ride.

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher: Microcosm Pub
ISBN: 9781934620601
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Devoted to train hopping and train culture, this firsthand account of a risk-taking traveler describes with stunning detail the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of riding United States railroads without a ticket. From exhausting waits in sparse canyons to breezy sunny rides through the Pacific Northwest, the author glorifies train hopping and expounds his grand adventures. Full of unique photographs documenting the author's railroad journeys, this real-life narrative of a self-styled hobo exudes the feel of adventure and allows readers to explore the world of freight train travel vicariously though him.

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621063568
Category : Freight cars
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Devoted to train-hopping, graffiti, and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's Railroad Semantics series describes the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of exploring the western U.S. by freight train. The first four Railroad Semantics books are collected here for the first time. In their pages, you'll see epic, hidden works of art, read up on rail lore and riding tips, meet rail workers and fellow adventurers, and experience the perils and glories of life in rail yards, train cars, small towns, and encampments. The adventures in these books take you through California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oregon. Cities visited: Sacramento, California Arcata, California Redding, California Ukiah, California Willits, California Dunsmuir, California Roseville, California Fort Bragg, California Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Bend, Oregon La Grande, Oregon Missoula, Montana Laurel, Montana Cheyenne, Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming Pocatello, Idaho Nampa, Idaho Salt Lake City, Utah Elko, Nevada Denver, Colorado

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight cars
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"Albany, Chico, Cottage Grove, Dorena, Dunsmuir, Etna, Garberville, Klamath Falls, Millersburg, Oakland, Portland, Yreka."--Cover.

Railroad Semantics #5

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621068433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Railroad Semantics is no less a high spirited an adventure to read than the train hopping it describes. You are swept along as you precariously climb aboard and jumble down the tracks with Aaron Dactyl and his fellow travelers. As the story unfolds and you become familiar with the terrain in the fascinating pictures contained herein, you can't help but imagine you're one of the animated characters riding along as you attempt to avoid detection. Before long it's one of your tags Aaron spots and photographs under a bridge or on the walls of the box cars he uses to traverse from the snowy white capped peaks to the tree lined valley floor on his way north and south between cities.

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher: Microcosm Pub
ISBN: 9781934620113
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 63

Book Description
Aaron describes his summer riding freight trains between Portland and Northern California in near poetic detail. Between the exhausting waits in sparse canyons, and breezy sunny rides into Eugene, Aaron manages to make riding trains sound like a grand adventure. This volume also includes interesting local articles about the railroads: shipping trash to landfills by train, Junction City's lawsuit against the rail company, and a landslide. Plus absolutely beautiful photography of pictures of hobo graffiti, scenic vistas, trains, and crusty punks.

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight cars
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

There's Something about a Train #4

Author: Hobo Lee
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621067917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
If you've seen the movie Catching Out, then you've met Lee, who starting in the late 80s put out a biannual cut-and-paste zine offering stories, pictures, news clippings, adventures, lingo, and advice from railyards and boxcars and squats around the world.

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Railroad Semantics

Author: Aaron Dactyl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Aaron Dactyl's accounts of hopping trains in Oregon and California.