Steam Train Maury, who spent his life as Maurice W. Graham until a train whistle’s timeless lament compelled him to hop a freight to freedom and, much later, fame as the first and only g rand ...

For more than half a century, Springfield’s rail yards were a crossroads for hoboes — transient workers who traveled on freight trains in search of work, adventure, or simply a ...

This blog about end-of-life issues enables us to track here other things that come to an end, such as technology items and lifestyles. In today’s Spokesman-Review, I wrote about the end of the train ...

TOLEDO -- Maury Graham -- an activist who helped many people in our area over the years -- passed away Saturday evening. People knew him as "Steam Train." We're told he suffered a stroke a couple of ...

SARTELL, Minn. — It began with a poem and a toast. "Gentlemen — if I can call hobos gentlemen," Tom Staller said. "We are here today on the banks of the Mississippi ... to honor a historic tradition, ...

The news spread quickly through the hobo community and beyond that longtime hobo favorite Steam Train Maury Graham passed away Saturday at age 89. Steam Train had suffered a stroke in recent weeks and ...

A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you’re inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side.

A CSX freight train crawls through Orlando’s Church Street Station, and 19-year-old John Snyder eyes it like an addict who has just spotted a free fix. Everyone around the train is standing still ...