ride the rods
hit the rods

Better men than me were out on the roads or riding the rods.

It wouldn't be the first time he'd ridden the rods.

How come you're riding the rods, kids like you?

Most people think I've been riding the rods.

"One year ago men could be seen riding the rods on freight trains across Canada.

Steven dies in an accident while "riding the rods".

I'm a hobo and I ride the rods.

During the "Dirty Thirties", he and others from the area rode the rods in search of work.

I'd sooner come back riding the rods.

Leaving the station house, he approaches the waiting train and automatically climbs under its carriage to ride the rods, habit being the force it is.

Who had almost starved to death riding the rods from Pluto to Oberon?

Riding the rods was very dangerous.

During the Depression, he rode the rods to Vancouver and worked there for several years at a number of manual occupations.

About riding the rods.

Rode the rods, too.

They rode in them, on them, and under them"riding the rods"their bodies inches from the murderous wheels.

Can't ride the rods," I told Brandy. "

Most of em probably got tired of eating potato soup or going flat hungry at home and went off riding the rods, looking for something better.

There could be four or more of these truss rods under the car floor running the length of the car, and hobos would "Ride the Rods."

Many of these men had been traveling across the country either under or on tops of rail freight cars, a very dangerous practice called " riding the rods ".

There one day, gone the next, riding the rods or the blind baggage or tucked away in a boxcar on the Great Northern's east- or westbound night freight.

Hobos usually travel by train "hopping" (riding in empty train freight railcars without paying for a ticket), or sometimes "riding the rods" (lying dangerously near the train wheels, underneath the cars).

He moved from town to town, a hobo who rode the rods in a passenger car and wearing a suit instead of in a boxcar wearing Oshkosh biballs, never staying in one place long enough to put down roots.

And by the time their twenty-four-hour tour was up, they'd be willin to swear before God and man that the next time they came riding the rods up New England way they'd give Derry a wide berth.

Armed with a repeating rifle, a repeating shotgun, a repeating pistol, and a few pocket-sized bombs, Roxana rides the rods of the crack Trenton Express in the effort to catch or kill the murderers of her father.

Although no strikes hit the rods while I was looking -- you're not supposed to be out among them, anyway, when a storm's right overhead -- that could have been for the best.

First, a large amount of steam still trapped above and within the core has to be knocked down first, or the water will be flashed to steam prior to it hitting the rods.

Within an hour of setting up, the "Lucky Rod" (Affectionately known as, due to the fact it always catches) had a run on it. We had already decided to take it in turns to hit the rods and it was my go first.