Pages on this site containing general information on hoboes and trains:
- November 23, 2005 — Inspiration
- Snippets of wisdom gleaned from several of the books mentioned in the bibliography below
- November 23, 2005 — A Return to Britt — What a Mistake!
- by Captain Cloud, Grand Duke of Hoboes
- May 27, 2006 — Bibliography
- Probably the most complete listing of books, videos, movies and magazine and newspaper articles about hoboing that can be found anywhere, originally put together by Shoefly Jay
- June 12, 2006 — buZ blurr
- The man who gave us "Colossus of Roads" still has a few copies of his book available for sale and no library should be without one
Articles appearing on websites with information on hoboes:
- November 20, 1995 — Club Wired: Abdul Rahim
- by James Glave for Club Wired
- March 2, 1999 — Press Release
- from the Union Pacific Online
- October 31, 2001 — Railroaded
- by Silke Tudor for sfweekly.com
- November 23, 2005 — Photo Bill's search for Bozo Texino
- by Andrew Hultkrans for Stim
- November 23, 2005 — Riding the Cyber-Rails
- by Frederic Larson for 24 Hours in Cyberspace
College and University papers:
- December 14, 1997 — Train Tags
- by Sam Caplan for a University research paper
- November 23, 2005 — Riders of the Rails
- by Holly Dohrn for a College research paper
- November 23, 2005 — The Hobo Is Dead. Long Live the Hobo.
- by Alex Brand for a University research paper
- November 23, 2005 — A Study into Hobo Literature
- by Nial Anderson for a University research paper
- June 9, 2006 — The American Hobo
- by Colin Beesley for a University research paper
Magazine articles:
- August 1998 — Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
- by James R. Chiles for the Smithsonian
- November 1998 — Stealing Rides
- by Nelson Taylor for Bikini
- June 1999 — Damn Track
- by Steven Kotler for Maxim
- December 2000 — Trainhopping
- by Matthew Power for Blue: The Adventure Lifestyle
- February 9, 2003 — Hobo Chronicles
- by Eddy Joe Cotton for the San Francisco Chronicle magazine
- November 23, 2005 — On the Rail Again
- by Jan Hertoghs for the Belgian magazine Humo
- November 23, 2005 — The Art of Vandalism
- by Allen Abel for Saturday Night
- November 23, 2005 — interview with buZ blurr
- by Blake Donner for the Fifth Goal (a zine about Boxcar Art)
- November 23, 2005 — The Wanderers
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
- November 23, 2005 — Train Hopping the Fraser Canyon
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
- June 9, 2006 — Train Hopping Canada's West
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
- July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 1
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
- July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 2
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
- July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 3
- by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
Newspaper articles:
- April 19, 1994 — Ax attack in freight car kills hobo
- by Ellen Miller for the Denver Post
- January 14, 1996 — American Nomads
- by Ken Howe for the San Francisco Chronicle
- January 15, 1998 — Trainhopping
- by James Hibberd for the Austin American-Statesman
- February 5, 1998 — Train Gang
- by Dave Irwin for the Tucson Weekly
- June 14, 1998 — Hobo activities
- by Mark Hodson for the London Sunday Times
- August 31, 1998 — Hobos hope for peace with railroad
- by Matthew Schofield for the Kansas City (MO) Star
- January 14, 1999 — Loco Motives
- by Dave Irwin for the Phoenix New Times
- January 28, 1999 — Hobos hurt over serial-killer image
- by Martha Irvine for the Associated Press
- May 2, 2000 — Riding the Rails From K.C. to Texas
- by Rex for the San Francisco Examiner
- May 5, 2000 — Young Hoboes Take to the Tennessee Rails
- by John Yates for The Tennessean
- July 13, 2000 — Trainspotting
- by Katia Dunn for the Portland Mercury
- August 30, 2000 — St. Paul hosts the alternative hobo convention
- by Paul Demko for the Twin Cities' City Pages
- Spring 2001 — The Other Side of This Life
- by Patrick Marley for the Alternative Press Review
- Dec. 28, 2001 — Urban Explorers, Crawling and Climbing Into the Past
- by Carolyn Hughes Crowley for the Washington Post
- July 26, 2002 — The Hobohemians
- by Ben Ehrenreich for the LA Weekly
- December 6, 2002 — Beamsplitters
- by Joseph Gallivan for the Portland (OR) Tribune
- December 16, 2002 — Under the Bridge, a Man of Means by No Means
- by Charlie LeDuff for the New York Times
- January 6, 2003 — Art or vandalism, railcar graffiti roll across land
- by David Paulsen for the Wausau (WI) Daily Herald
- February 16, 2003 — Real hobos ride the rails as a way of life
- by Deb Saine for the Logansport (IN) Pharos-Tribune
- March 14, 2003 — Train hoppers' adventure ends in arrest
- by John Lynch for the Longview (TX) News-Journal
- March 18, 2003 — Living on the Edge
- by Patricia Cooper for the Charlottesville (VA) Cavalier Daily
- March 26, 2003 — Dude, Where's My Train? (a review of Sarah George's film "Catching Out")
- by Mike Connor for Metro Santa Cruz
- April 2, 2003 — Long Gone (a review of David Eberhardt and Jack Cahill's film "Long Gone")
- by Jeremy O'Kasick for the Twin Cities City Pages
- June 1, 2003 — Last Days on the Tracks (Roger "the Dodger" Bryant finally retires)
- by Lee Beach for the Klamath Falls, OR Herald & News
- June 19, 2003 — Rail culture: the language of freight-hoppers
- by James D. Graham for the Charlottesville (VA) Hook
- August 20, 2003 — Tramps found riding the rails
- by Jonathan Gneiser for the Marshfield News-Herald
- September 25, 2003 — Down the Track
- by K.J. Longley for the North Little Rock (AR) Times
- October 17, 2003 — buZ blurr exhibit is a sharp study in contrast
- by Sarah Rozeboom for the Northwest Arkansas Times
- March 14, 2004 — Scenery Junkies (a review of Lucius Shepard's book "Two Trains Running")
- by John Mark Eberhart for the Kansas City (MO) Star
- April 18, 2004 — Young hobos said to be seeking escape
- by Daniel Jackson for the Scripps Howard News Service
- August 4, 2004 — Jumping Someone Else's Train
- by Craig Metz for Metro Santa Cruz
- August 11, 2004 — The Real Grand Excursion
- by Mike Mosedale for the Twin Cities' City Pages
- October 24, 2004 — Life on the Open Rails
- by Bryon S. Houlgrave for the Charles City (IA) Press
- December 17, 2004 — The Wander Years
- by Leslie Dunn for the Monterey County (CA) Herald
- September 28, 2005 — Man of Many Marks
- by Johnny Ray Huston for the San Francisco Bay Guardian
- November 23, 2005 — Part of Americana? — the rail-riding hobos
- by Jason George for the Des Moines Register
- November 23, 2005 — Hopping Freight Trains in the Twilight of Hobo Tradition (a review of Sarah George's film "Catching Out")
- by Stephen Holden for the New York Times
- March 26, 2006 — Railway Renegades
- by Leonie Sherman for the San Francisco Chronicle
- May 4, 2006 — A Different Breed of Freighthoppers
- by Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell for the New York Times
- April 2, 2007 — Riding the Rails
- by Bonnie Henry for the Tucson Arizona Daily Star