freight hopping
Illegal boxcar travel
Freight hopping is the practice of illegally riding freight trains, typically by climbing into open boxcars or onto flatcars.
Associated with hobos, migrant workers, and adventurers, it carries risks of injury, death, and arrest: He spent his twenties freight hopping across the country.
Also called train hopping.
- trainhoppingIllegally boarding cargo trains
- hitchingAttaching with rope
- boxcarEnclosed rail freight carrier
- railwayTrack system for trains
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