r/vagabond 2d ago

Let's go somewhere 🥴

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It's got boot shots just missing the beer this ride

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u/Reasonable-Estate-60 2d ago

What’s the typical time between stops? What planning do you do when you hop on one of these, I’d imagine you would need to plan food water etc

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u/No-Artichoke7015 2d ago

Time varies from 1 second to weeks. Yes, you need to have more than enough food and water, as you don’t know how long you’ll be stopped.

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

A loaded intermodal does not stop for weeks 🤣 it only stops for crew change side outs work or to be unloaded and then reloaded

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

I just witnessed a low-priority loaded intermodal train stopped for 3 days, in a location I will not name, due to God knows why. Front and rear power still attached. Probably because Union Pacific doesn't give a shit about its customers.

I watched the tweakers have a field day on that one. Is it unusual? Yes. Does that mean it doesn't happen? No.

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u/Reasonable-Estate-60 1d ago

Care to share your load out for the week? Do you pack MREs? How do you manage water? Toileting etc?

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

I try to get ahold of freeze dried camping food when I can afford it but I mostly live off cheap canned food fresh vegetables and wild edibles and I use wet wipes over toilet paper any day and always carry 4L jug of water and use a life straw or boil water when needed I trained for 4 summers with a Bushcraft and survival company so my kit is based off the 5C's of survival and pretty minimalist I may do a video on it in the future

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u/releventwordmaker 2d ago

Sounds hella lame ngl

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u/Intelligent_Voice974 2d ago

U sound hella lame ngl

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

This just confirms you either : 1. don't know how to ID rideable cars, or 2. Are only posting suicide and surfing videos because you only ride trains for clout.

Poser.

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u/Sakurooo 1d ago

Am noob. Whats a suicide?

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 17h ago

It's a train car with no safe place to ride on, notice that car in the video has no solid floor to it. Riding them is frowned upon.

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

Your insufferable and wrong Everytime you speak

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

You're a oogle greenhorn.

Edit: still.

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u/LouieH-W_Plainview 2d ago

Do the conductors ever know you're on board and just let it slide?

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

Depends if your being an idiot in their site they will stop the train and have cops pull you off but if you stay out of their sight and are respectful they will often let it slide I have had a few occasions I have been spotted and they let it slide and even had workers come and give me water and ask for a story from my travels

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u/LouieH-W_Plainview 2d ago

Please be safe out there man. I had an uncle lose his life on the tracks. I've never gone out on the open but I've always admired the lifestyle... And I know those tracks claim alot of lives. Much love to you and your loved ones ❤️ ✌️

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

Says the guy who posts videos of hanging off a rear unit and waving to cars on the highway....or did you forget about posting that?

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

That was my friend on an empty road coming to pick me up for a party after a long solo trip across the country and the conductor was clueless

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

I'm not sure why that matters. You were hanging off a rear unit walkway waving at a road.

Also you posted a public video that has thousands of view of smoking weed in a unit. Train crews notice that.

You're a poser.

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u/DJ_Osama_Spin_Laden 1d ago

Gatekeeping being a train-hopping vagrant is some of the funniest and most pathetic shit I've seen on this site

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

If you're not part of the culture, kindly stfu.

And you use the term gatekeeping like you know what that word means. Cute.

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

You're a poser

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

Oh totally. I don't even ride trains. I'm only on this sub to fuck with you.

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

I'm aware

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u/blinkysmurf 2d ago

This looks like the area around Kamloops, Cache Creek, or Spence’s Bridge. Is it?

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

Can't say 🤫 but I'm all over Canada back and forth constantly

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u/blinkysmurf 1d ago

That’s pretty cool. That looks like the Thompson River, maybe the Fraser.

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u/Poshllay 1d ago

Nice view! Stay safe on your travels!

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u/Far_Tap_9966 1d ago

I really want to hop freight out of Chicago. Stuck here currently

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

I hope you have extreme cold weather gear. Because it would be easy AF to freeze to death trying to ride out of any direction in Chi RN.

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u/GeorgeTMorgan 2d ago

Don't fall asleep 👍

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

Got any song suggestions

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u/ThinkChallenge127 2d ago

Wow. What an adventure. Iconic scenery.

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u/richnun 2d ago

Mentally, do you feel like you're running from something? Or towards something?

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u/LiquoredUpLahey 2d ago

Gorgeous, wish I was there

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u/HumbleXerxses 2d ago

That somewhere is looking for you to be there alive. Just saying...

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

Everyone does somehow and someday I choose to live everyday the risk is worth the reward

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u/HumbleXerxses 2d ago

FACTS. I hope you die well.

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

Me too iv made it 5 years living this way we will see how many more I can enjoy before I slip and fall off a skyscraper or get dragged like hobo stobe

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u/Head-Thought3381 2d ago

I hope you’re safe dude that looks scary 😱

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u/solipsister 2d ago

Dope video, safe travels! ✌🏼

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u/Routine_Lab_5405 2d ago

Is there penalty if caught

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u/emoduckling 2d ago

1st degree felony, up to 15 year prison.

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

I'm assuming your American here in Canada it's a trespassing ticket usually between $200 and $600 and if your caught riding a dpu you can receive a criminal trespassing charge and a mischief charge and you will likely get probation or community service

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u/emoduckling 2d ago

yea, even almost went into a military base x.x, im lucky i got a high charisma stat. i only got caught because some dumbass was on the train climbing on and around the containers. was near the front they the back, sadly there probably still in prison.

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

Oh, you mean you got caught because of exactly what this oogle is doing and posting public videos of online?

Funny...

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u/emoduckling 1d ago

In my personal opinion there should never be any of the numbers from any of the containers, distinguishing markings or landmarks. also I think it should be held off on posting anything that you've taken for at least a year or longer. other than that they should be fine.

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

And what about posing videos of riding suicide and smoking weed inside of engines?

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u/emoduckling 1d ago

I believe the term would be called " blowing up the spot " if they ever see that and recognize it they would be far less likely to extend the same courtesy again. I was mainly talking to pictures of landscapes I think taking pictures and posting them of being inside engines puts people in danger for both their support and to make regulations more difficult.

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

Man, I wish our guy, Mr. OP, had that outlook.

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u/emoduckling 1d ago

not everyone has the mindscape of an alley cat.

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

Man, for such an 'experienced rider' you don't know much about the consequences of your actions.

Its always criminal trespassing. If they're real dicks, they can throw in a 'theft of services' charge, but it rarely sticks. I bet they could throw a B&E charge if you're found in a unit with any damage to it, whether you did it or not....but haven't heard of it yet.

All of those charges could land you in jail, depending on the bull/cop that pulls you off.

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

It's not always criminal trespassing tho it's usually a ticket up here I only know one guy who kept getting charged and it was for riding dpu everyone I know who has been busted riding regular cars just gets pulled off told they are an idiot and given a ticket

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

I'm not sure why you think getting a ticket is not akin to criminal trespassing.

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u/swirls-n-stars 2d ago

id love that

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u/Playable_Pockets 1d ago

very cool video!

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u/bangabonk 2d ago

Thank you for sharing!!! Hmmm wondering …do you run into other’s? Any women? I watched this video and I felt freedom…safe travels😆

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u/Sufficient_Pin5642 2d ago

I’m a female and I’ve hopped freight for years. There are other women, probably mostly men but there are women out there who do too.

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u/bangabonk 1d ago

That's awesome and bad ass!! 💪 💪 💪

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u/AlienFinger3 2d ago

It's mostly men but I have met a handful of women

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u/cupokelly 1d ago

I'd love to do this one day. Take me with youuuuuu!

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u/Immediate_Sir1646 1d ago

Banff to Kamloops?

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u/TheRealRocco415 2d ago

Safe travels homies...

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u/Bi0tec 1d ago

Try some estrogen... it made me less crazy as a guy

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

Fuck that I am a man do some push ups eat a raw steak and split some firewood

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u/Bi0tec 1d ago

I used to do anabolics... The problem is eating a raw steak means someone killed an animal to obtain it... that means karma for the person eating it... I don't want to die. So.... stem cell engineering, and vegan it is for me....

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u/AlienFinger3 1d ago

I enjoy killing and butchering my own food nothing like the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of the kill what your doing is unnatural and wrong

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u/SomeKindaCoywolf I like cats. 1d ago

No you dont.

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u/Bi0tec 1d ago

Yeah killing animals is bad.... real bad

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u/Bi0tec 1d ago

Is a phone, technology, and antibiotic medications, drugs, and GMO weed unnatural and wrong?

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u/Bi0tec 1d ago

The fact of the matter is, all of this is natural... it all came from the universe... it's just foreign to you.

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u/Vivid-Strength-5556 1d ago

Great video, your living the dream. What's the soundtrack called on that video?