photographs

below are pages containing photographs relating to hopping freights and boxcar art:

car numbers — Track down cars containing buZ blurr drawings

buZ blurr — Sketches from the "master" (73 groups of 10 photos)

buZ blurr (the early years) — Seldom seen drawings from the master's formative years (3 groups of 10 photos)

buZ blurr (Mail Art) — Mail Art created by buZ blurr from stencils he created from photographs (25 images)

Colossus of Roads — 10 images of the "Master" by Chris Crook

Drummond Mansfield — Classic drawings of hoboes show life as it was before scanners and cell phones

Toby Hardman — Black & white photographs of sketches left by hoboes and railroad workers on freight cars

Khaze — Beginning with his "Traveling Blues Exhibit", done in oil pastels, of blues greats from a set of cards that R. Crumb did in the 80's

Monikers — Several pages of tags I thought to be noteworthy (17 groups of 10 photos)

Boxcar art — Some of my favorite drawings (139 groups of 10 photos)

My Oldest "Herby" — A tag of his dated 9-20-69

Railfan corner — Photos of places and equipment long gone (5 groups of 10 photos)

Amtrak wreck — The "Cushions" take a tumble at Black Butte, CA on Dec. 7, 2000

Riding in Style — Photographs scanned from old Kodachrome slides showing what train travel was meant to look like (i.e. before Amtrak)

Over the Cascades — Photos taken during a winter trip from Klamath Falls to Eugene by "sidedoor pullman"

People — Folks I've met along the tracks over the years (3 groups of 10 photos)

1999 West Coast Hobo Gathering — Photos from the first gathering, courtesy of West Coast Virginia Slim

2000 West Coast Hobo Gathering — Memories of a very cool weekend

2001 West Coast Hobo Gathering — The best one yet

2001 West Coast Hobo Gathering Revisited — Two pages of photographs taken by Dammit Ray during the 2001 West Coast Hobo Gathering in Dunsmuir

2002 West Coast Hobo Gathering — The most "eventful" one yet

2002 West Coast Hobo Gathering (part deux) — Photos taken by No Nuts during the gathering at Black Butte

2003 West Coast Hobo Gathering — There couldn't have been any tramps riding trains anywhere else in the country this weekend — they all seemed to be in Dunsmuir

2004 West Coast Hobo Gathering — Something old, something new, something borrowed, something black

2004 West Coast Hobo Gathering - the jungle — Photographs of "ground zero" by Chris

Dunsmuir Railroad Days trophy — The 2nd place trophy that our "Marching Band" won in Dunsmuir

2005 West Coast Hobo Gathering — We don' need no stinkin' Parade...

2005 Black Butte Hobo Gathering — Photographs of the gathering taken by Alex

2006 West Coast Hobo Gathering — We came, we saw, we gathered...

Bridges I Have Known — Vantage points for scenic views and shelter while we pay our dues... (3 groups of 10 photos)

1984 National Hobo Convention — 13 photos that originally appeared in the Britt (IA) News-Tribune following the 1984 Convention

Riding in the Winter — Ahhh, Winter! No heat, no mosquitoes... what's not to like? 15 photos that I scanned from old prints showing scenes of Winter riding

The Formative Years — Photos from my early years of stumbling around freightyards, taken in the late 70's and early 80's (7 groups of 10 photos)

Black Butte in Winter — What I have to endure in order to get all of these silly photographs of "boxcar art" (4 groups of 10 photos)

A Ride Down the Hill — Photos from a ride down the hill into Dunsmuir

No Nuts' Birthday Party — Photos from this year's party at an "undisclosed location" in Northern California

Dunsmuir to Eugene Again — 20 photos from a "railfanning" trip I took with Short Track and Mr. Grinch from Dunsmuir to Eugene

Travelling — Photos from train trips taken by Juliette

Gallery 1 — 12 photos from the 70's showing early train trips

Gallery 2 — 12 photos from the 80's showing tramps

Gallery 3 — 12 photos from the 80's showing trains

Gallery 4 — 12 photos from the 90's showing trains, tramps, and scenics

Gallery 5 — 10 photos from the 70's and 80's taken on various train trips

Gallery 6 — 10 photos from the 70's and 80's taken on various train trips

Gallery 7 — 6 photos from the 70's taken on a train trip from Oroville to Klamath Falls, then back to Dunsmuir

Gallery 8 — 6 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Oakland to West Colton

Gallery 9 — 4 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Roseville to Oakland

Gallery 10 — 6 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Oakland to LA

Gallery 11 — 8 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Denver to Oakland

Gallery 12 — 4 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Roseville to LA

Gallery 13 — 8 photos from the 80's taken on a train trip from Roseville to LA

Gallery 14 — postcards from "Cardboard" on a trip from Oroville to Britt in 1991

Black & White — 5 photos from old black & white negatives taken on various train trips

Winter ride - 1996 — 6 photos from a winter ride in 1996

Vinegar Valley Express — Another visit to my favorite "rusted-motorcar-sitting-in-the-woods"

Hopping Freights — Previously-posted photos from some favorite train trips