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Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars My dad did that for real for a couple years during the depression. He was 1 of many thousands of men riding the rails, going anywhere that there were rumors of work to be had. They weren't hobos, though. A hobo isn't looking for work. He's just a bum. These men wanted work. Dad ended his wanderings as a farm hand in Idaho where he met my mother, then joined the navy a few months before Pearl Harbor.
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I used to ride the freight trains. Here I am at 70 mph on a Canada Pacific fast freight near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. There were no open box cars so we were riding in the third engine. The engineers were in the first engine. The open box car is much preferable, too noisy riding on that big engine.
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I had a good friend who chose that lifestyle, hitchhiked, hop trains, etc, he died, last yr, 58, it was a hard life.
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For a short while back in the late '90s I worked with about three or four train hopper "hobo" buddies. Their ages ranged from late 20s to early 40s. They said they had to stop because security was too intense over the Hispanic serial killer, Angel Maturino Reséndiz, who traveled around the country via hopping on trains and killing people.
They all pretty much lived to get wasted by whatever means was available and riding the rails. Said they worked whenever they needed some cash money.
Once the serial killer was caught they went right back to riding the rails and getting high.
They'd come back home from time to time but just couldn't stand staying in one place for very long.
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"Boxcar Bertha" -- David Carradine, Barbara Hershey.
Thank you , I remembered those two in that movie ,but could not remember the title
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Not a movie....
Was a Buddy Ebsen ( or was it Roscoe p Coltrane?) on Andy Griffith as a hobo?
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Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars Great Movie!!! Borgnine was a railroad guard, a mean Sunofa. Marvin was bound to ride Shack’s (Borgnine’s) train, and become “Emporer”. One of Marvin’s best (says a lot) and Borgnine was always good. 7mm That was a great movie.
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Wasn't Red Skelton a hobo?
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Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars Great Movie!!! Borgnine was a railroad guard, a mean Sunofa. Marvin was bound to ride Shack’s (Borgnine’s) train, and become “Emporer”. One of Marvin’s best (says a lot) and Borgnine was always good. 7mm That was a great movie. yes it was.Remembered seeing it as a teenager in the 70's loved it ,bought the DVD last year ,after not seeing it for decades ,still love it
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Wasn't Red Skelton a hobo? One of his characters, Freddie the Freeloader, was a bum but Skelton himself wasn't. He was a hard worker. HIs father died when he was quite young. He had to quit school and worked at many jobs. He got turned toward entertainment when he was young. He got some breaks by meeting the right people by accident.
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Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars This was a great movie.
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Portland, Seattle, LA, New York, Minneapolis.
They call them documentaries
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🦫 ya, those are Hobosexuals, aka the pAnsyfa bois, or gurls ... same human excrement .... and don't forget Sinphagsicko..... all of Caliphagnia for that matter
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Don't ask me about my military service or heroic acts...most of it is untrue.
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The Journey of Natty Gann.
I watched Emperor of The North 2 weeks ago.
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Here I am going for a stroll at 60 mph on a boxcar in central Tennessee, April 1977. I tell you guys, there is nothing like it, to be sitting in the open door of a boxcar in the middle of Kansas at midnight, train doing 70 mph, your legs swaying in the breeze, your buddy handing you a pint of Jack Daniels, looking out at the wheat fields shining in the moonlight, the stars shining brightly in the big sky, the clackety clack as the steel wheels roll over the rails. It is a wonderful thing to do.
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Emperor of the North Pole with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine 1973loved that movie ,..set in the 30's riding Rail Road Box cars Great Movie!!! Borgnine was a railroad guard, a mean Sunofa. Marvin was bound to ride Shack’s (Borgnine’s) train, and become “Emporer”. One of Marvin’s best (says a lot) and Borgnine was always good. 7mm That was a great movie. yes it was.Remembered seeing it as a teenager in the 70's loved it ,bought the DVD last year ,after not seeing it for decades ,still love it Same here. I have to look and see if I can find it somewhere to stream. 2 of my favorite actors.
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Emperor Of The North... Not North Pole
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Another vote for Emperor of the North (Pole), I believe it's been released under both names. My father took me to see it when it first came out, I'm sure he didn't tell Mom what it was about. He's 88 and has a great memory, remembers the hobos coming by looking for food before WW2.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=american+experience+hobo+johnson&oq=americ&aqs=chrome.1.69i59l2j69i60l3.4446j0j16&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1b3f1097,vid:t1JIa5r5nkE,st:0
If that doesn't work, American Experience Hobo Matters
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Another vote for Emperor of the North (Pole), I believe it's been released under both names. My father took me to see it when it first came out, I'm sure he didn't tell Mom what it was about. He's 88 and has a great memory, remembers the hobos coming by looking for food before WW2. Another vote for Emperor of the North (Pole), I believe it's been released under both names. My father took me to see it when it first came out, I'm sure he didn't tell Mom what it was about. He's 88 and has a great memory, remembers the hobos coming by looking for food before WW2. Wrong... They ain't at the north pole moron...
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