So I rode the rails out of the city with a buck and change on me.
After three months riding the rails, they considered themselves rather jaded travelers.
During the Depression, more than a million desperate people rode the rails in search of work.
He said, "I don't ride the rails because the young people, they kill tramps now, you know."
Bridge too is a runaway, having abandoned his own wealthy family to ride the rails.
I was tired of riding the rails all the time.
He became a hobo in order to return home, riding the rails back across Canada.
He soon went back on the road, eventually riding the rails to California.
Statistics show that riding the rails is safer than travel by road.
They say you need to ride the rails for a while to understand the travelling blues.