[tkgally]

Here’s a video that happened to come up on my YouTube feed today. It’s by someone doing what I’ve always thought of as the quintessential hobo activity: hopping a freight train. Beautiful scenery.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlPWF8LFXS0

[watmough]

Beware, this is kind of a deep rabbithole.

I suggest to look up his trip up from Mexico, following the migrant route. For a different view of the same trip, his travelling companion (automous something) has his own channel.

RanOutOnARail isn't really a hobo though ... I think he's a software engineer in Texas somewhere.

Hobo Shoestring has an interesting channel also, albeit with a home base. You'll learn a lot about trains, and hobos' most hated adversaries, the 'homebums'. :D

And of course, there's a 10x hobo, in stobe-the-hobo (RIP), well worth watching all his videos.

[ljf]

Stobe's videos got me through lockdown. Was so sad to hear he had died. Stunning videos, huge character, and so much soul in the journeys he went on.

[tumdum_]

You might find this channel interesting: https://youtube.com/@shiey

[iammjm]

And you might find this channel interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday

[asdfqwertzxcv]

Love Shiey and he also goes on quite a few trips with this guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iPVSFr42KUFf8DKsmnvSw) who is very well educated and more philosophical and artistic than Shiey. Like them both a lot, but they're different flavors of the same genre.

[ljf]

Can't beat Stobe the Hobo's videos, though sadly jumping trains killed him in the end:

https://youtube.com/@hobostobearchive6909