Gutter Punks Freight Trains

Often homeless by choice they tend to travel about the country hopping freight trains from city to city traveling south for the winter and northward for the summer.

Gutter punks freight trains.

This is usually because the greenest runaways are enraged with their life at home and the gutter punks have the most anti authority attitude on the street. But they do not go home. In previous summers community members have complained of the group s aggressive panhandling and claimed the animals the travelers kept as companions were not. Called gutter punks crusties travelers or rail riders they travel the country by hopping freight trains hitchhiking and taking buses often with musical instruments and dogs in tote.

The punks hitchhike or share a ride or hop freight trains. Said going at speeds he guesses to be around 15 miles per hour. Carrying on the diy punk culture of music art and fashion that first emerged in the 1970s contemporary gutter punks like zeke have also rekindled the train hopping tradition of north america. Some travelling kids jump on moving trains d.

Cities is in the thousands and they often congregate in major u s. Others cadge rides from greyhound lines taking advantage of free or reduced fares offered to runaways heading home. Two young lovers hop trains cross country from florida to portland or to get married in the 24 hour church of elvis. For safety he only gets on stationary trains.

It s a lifestyle and a network created on the go with groups bunking up in new squats as they arrive in new towns. Top 10 folk punk bands. The choice of crust punk. He stays away from freight train hopping because he had a near death experience with train.

Gutter punks are generally homeless and transient. He says the gutter punk scene is usually where the newest runaways find their street family. The number of gutter punks who travel to various u s. Gutter punk has negative connotations he said more like a junkie kid the trains.