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Train hopping in the 1920s

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Uploaded by on Jul 30, 2008

Grampa Lavery describes his adventures as a young man hopping freight and passenger trains across the country in the 1920s.

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  • quite amazing, my great grandfather uste to train hop in st. louis around the same time period !, i wonder if this guy knows him?

  • That would be very unlikely. We will never know.

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  • I remember when a lot of folks would hop trains during the depression and the dirty 30s.

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    no problem dude

  • great video

  • Back in a time when you couldn't afford a car so damn easily...beats the hell outta walking.

  • That must have been a lot of fun.

  • you say that but my he says he knew a kid who was almost killed running on the tops of trains when a tunnel was neer the car he was on. but anyways cool vid

  • this is relly amzing thanks for uploading it

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