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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...