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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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There is a secret map passed down from hobo to hobo. You can’t buy it in stores or download it online but if you’re lucky enough to get a copy you can travel anywhere in America by freight train. They call it The Crew Change Guide and it is a sacred document for those who still ride in boxcars like the hobos looking for work in the great depression. This state by state guide has grown from one man’s obsession into a network of everything you need to get from Aliceville, Alabama to Wendover, Wyoming - all for “low or no dollars”.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode two of rule breakers at BBC World Service Sundance Institute |
0:07.2 | Collaboration where we invite filmmakers to create audio documentary bad people doing things their own ways. I am Shirin Neshat taking |
0:15.7 | you on another journey and we're going on our train ride with the mysterious train dock who has |
0:22.0 | spent a lifetime creating an alternative map of America |
0:26.1 | known as the Cruel Change Guide. |
0:28.8 | It's never been published and is only available to those who need it. Here's Ray Cantrovitz with veteran on the tracks. |
0:37.0 | Mozart K 491. Ah yes, Helford Brendan playing piano. one of my all-time favorites. |
0:45.0 | I acquired the album by taking out the trash, if I remember correctly. |
0:49.0 | I was working at a record store, and I would put certain albums in bags and take them out with the garbage. |
0:55.3 | Some people feel above taking out the trash. |
0:57.3 | I found it was a great way to build up my record collection. |
1:00.9 | This is Train Doc and he's a hobo icon. |
1:05.0 | Most people consider themselves better than trash. |
1:08.0 | I pick up trash everywhere I go and I've come to associate myself with that litter. |
1:12.0 | He shakes his head when I call him that, but for people who hop on freight trains, |
1:16.7 | he's a household name, and getting your hands on his secret, unpublished guide |
1:21.9 | is a tradition passed down from Hobo to Hobo. |
1:25.0 | My name's Ray Cantruitz and this is veteran on the tracks. |
1:30.0 | The story of Train Dock, the man who mapped every freight train in America. |
1:37.0 | Hobos were a folk tale I was told when I was a kid, |
1:40.0 | an old American tradition of migrants jumping aboard freight trains and traveling for thousands of miles looking for work. |
1:47.0 | Train dock is nothing like those stories. He's a professor of the Rails. |
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