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12-11-2023 - 21:07

D. B. Arthur

GRD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You would have been welcome on my train anytime DB!! No paperwork required!! Thanks for the kind words. It's a different worl
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12-02-2023 - 16:24

Railfan Jihad

2. Article: Family of a Man Who Died While ‘Surfing’ a San Francisco Train Comes Under Fire for Suing City

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09-10-2023 - 08:25

BOB2

3. Re: No one riding on the "Marrakesh Express" for a few hours... As they are selling tickets...

Crosby, Stills & Nash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Massive 6.9 earthquake Friday night > Massive destruction > 1000's dead Sad,but not atypical of earthqua
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09-03-2022 - 08:52

D. B. Arthur

4. Submitted For Your Approval - One-hundred-thirty-fifth Installment

Here's a photograph taken on March 12, 1997, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, by the conductor of NdeM Mixed Train 321 that ran from Durango to Tepehuanes. At his suggestion, we decided to do some "train surfi
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05-10-2022 - 11:12

D. B. Arthur

5. Submitted For Your Approval - Fifty-first Installment

The following is an excerpt from an article that was published in the October 25 and November 15, 1997, editions (Issues 576 and 577) of the now-defunct Rail Travel News. On March 12, 1997, a Wedn
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10-13-2021 - 20:34

Max Headroom

6. NYC Subway Surfer Killed by Train

From: https://people.com/human-interest/nyc-subway-surfer-dies-falling-off-train-tracks-hit-williamsburg-bridge/ A man has died in New York City while subway surfing near the Williamsburg Bridge
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03-27-2021 - 22:34

WebDigger

7. Train Surfing in Indonesia andf elsewhere

In reply to Commenter's "Re: 3rd World or only 2nd World Passenger Trains ?" post of 03-27-2021 - 12:37 (above) -- Train Surfing -- Definition: Train surfing (also known as train hopping or train
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01-20-2019 - 11:36

Headless Locklear

8. Re: Harold Lloyd, train surfing way before it was a thing.

Train surfing is very,very dangerous
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01-20-2019 - 07:54

Bruce Kelly

9. Re: Harold Lloyd, train surfing way before it was a thing.

Thanks, PDX, for digging up another visual gem. Despite whatever fictional circumstances may be involved, I think Hollywood's use of rail has been of some historic benefit, preserving action (and some
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01-19-2019 - 19:28

Pdxrailtransit

10. Harold Lloyd, train surfing way before it was a thing.

https://youtu.be/uDqtgoznzQw
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12-27-2018 - 22:25

HEATHER LOCKLEAR2

11. FROM

After my train surfing son had a bridge knock his block off, I joined that website to learn more about the railfan culture. True story.
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12-22-2018 - 18:35

Washington Irving

12. Heather Locklear's kid surfing the Carolinian gets head lopped off by a bridge

The body decides to ride another 128 miles. https://www.fayobserver.com/news/20181220/investigators-believe-man-decapitated-while-riding-atop-train A skull found earlier this month by railroad t
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08-22-2017 - 12:26

J

13. Re: Pioneer Zephyr Invades Alco Country

Hot Water Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- * * * Well, you got me to wondering if my memory was correct so I did a little surfing. I couldn't find anything specif
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05-12-2015 - 08:16

Taxpayer

14. Group Of Teen Subway Vandals Could Pose Serious Threat To Straphanger Safety

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09-02-2014 - 15:48

Tee Hee

15. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

WebDigger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A similar event happened in NJ. He was thinking with his little "Dinkey"
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09-02-2014 - 15:46

Fed up

16. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

WebDigger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A similar event happened in NJ. Somebody like that, if your the first to find him you make him disappear! Save lots of
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09-02-2014 - 15:20

WebDigger

17. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

A similar event happened in NJ. https://www.google.com/search?q=electrocuted+princeton+train&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=ssl&oq=electrocuted+princeton+train&gs_l=heirloom-serp.3...578
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09-02-2014 - 13:01

Taxpayer

18. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

LMAO!!! Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > P.Kepler Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Karma has a way of dealing with cheap and
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09-02-2014 - 12:59

LMAO!!!

19. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

P.Kepler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Karma has a way of dealing with cheap and stupid. > Don't try this at home IAAAAAAAAA!!!! DOUCH!! DOUCH!! OGMABABABA!!!!
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09-02-2014 - 10:32

P.Kepler

20. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

Karma has a way of dealing with cheap and stupid. Don't try this at home
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09-02-2014 - 08:54

Alfred Doten

21. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

That behavior had a following in the Bay Area before the end of the Key System. ARD
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09-01-2014 - 20:59

Howard

22. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

This is nothing new. https://picasaweb.google.com/100982681753224587809/PRCoParkinsonSet1?noredirect=1#5195586959299266754
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09-01-2014 - 20:44

Tony Czuleger

23. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

I have seen it happen in Davis Ca. on the Zepher east bound out of Davis Ca. A young man has latched onto the side of the train at the door way hanging onto the drip rail above the door and his feet o
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09-01-2014 - 20:35

P.Kepler

24. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

Traffic in this country (USA) operates on the RIGHT side of the road. This is a picture of a train that is going away from the camera and the "Rifer" is on the trailing end of the train. Still one o
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09-01-2014 - 18:39

Chris Walker

25. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

That sfweekly reporter is dumb. The driver obviously wouldn't move with a rider on the front coupler visible in the front windscreen. Duh, fool, the rider is on the trailing cabend. Chris in New
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09-01-2014 - 17:21

Jeffcon1

26. Re: "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/03/17/fearless-cyclist-hitches-a-ride-on-muni-in-most-dangerous-way-possible
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09-01-2014 - 15:40

Jack Williams

27. "Train Surfing" ---Can it happen here ??

Hi folks-- Check out this growing fad in Russia... Can it happen here in the U.S. ? http://news.msn.com/world/russian-train-surfers-extreme-sport-or-social-problem-1 Jack Sparks, NV
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12-20-2012 - 08:50

Boris Scratchenitchtzky

28. Those Crazy Rooskies

These guys are nuckin' futz! http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/12/deadly-fun-sport-russian-train-surfing/4205/ --Der Commizar
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11-14-2011 - 19:38

Espee99

29. Trainnews - volume 4 - issue 218

Tonight's edition is now available at Trainnews.org. Note - be sure to watch the train surfing videos from India.
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08-01-2011 - 20:30

BOB R

30. Re: Alaska Railroad Work Train photos posted

Good job! We just returned from two weeks in AK, attending to my wife's newly expanded clinic in Anchorage and taking the Anchorage Seward special one Saturday and the Anchorage to Spencer Whistle
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