[Railroad tracks in War, West Virginia.]

[NW Railroad car in War, West Virginia.]

Hoppin' Trains And Ridin' The Rails

"When I was a young boy, me and some of my brothers, cousins and friends used to jump on train cars and ride them. We would hide in the cars and jump out before we'd get caught. Sometimes we would ride to the next stop and then get on another car that was coming back home."

"We would have been in a lot of trouble if we had been caught. We didn't let our parents know that we were doing that. They would have been pretty mad about that."

Told by: Frank Cyphers, 1999



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