Patriot Rail Company LLC (Patriot Rail) on Aug. 22 announced that it has assumed ownership and operations of the Hobo Railroad and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, located in Lincoln, N.H., and ...

"I don't know — maybe it's everybody's urge to get free," Hobo Tom said. "It's the freedom of the road and getting out there and doing what you please." Hobo Tom, also know as Tom Curtis of Antwerp, ...

Feather River John lazily strummed his guitar in the back of a speeding Ford Ranchero, hat slung low to shield his eyes from the brilliant northern California sun. Beside him in the bed of the ...

"There's nothing nobler than to put up with a few inconveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedom." -- From "The Vanishing American Hobo" by Jack Kerouac Hobo poet James "Jimbow ...

He’s known for flying a reindeer-powered sleigh around the world on Christmas Eve, but here in New Hampshire, Santa Claus has been hitting the rails since the day after Thanksgiving Day. On Saturday, ...

He s rubbed shoulders with the likes of Boxcar Debbie, Florida Boy Blue, Pinky and, of course, Road Hog USA, who robbed a bank and gave the money to the homeless.

Chad Thompson said he’s picked up a few tricks to brewing hobo or cowboy coffee. While a small crowd steadily gathered by the railroad tracks at the end of 32nd Street, he manned a can of it over a ...

At least one of this year's queen candidates, a woman from Rockford, Ill., who goes by the name Sunrise, plans to swing through Independence on her way home from the hobo convention. The Independence ...

Colleen "Crash" Burke of St. Paul is the country's reigning hobo queen, crowned at Britt, Iowa's Hobo Days, an annual gathering that has been drawing active train riders, along with retired riders and ...

THEY found the Hardrock Kid under a tree in Ogden, Iowa back in 1977. He was on his way to the National Hobo Convention in Britt when he stopped for lunch and quietly passed away. In hobo vernacular: ...