Gutter Punks Freight 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.

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. The punks hitchhike or share a ride or hop freight trains. Others cadge rides from greyhound lines taking advantage of free or reduced fares offered to runaways heading home. He says the gutter punk scene is usually where the newest runaways find their street family.

Traveling on freight trains presents many dangers starting with actually getting on the train. He stays away from freight train hopping because he had a near death experience with train. 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. 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.

Two young lovers hop trains cross country from florida to portland or to get married in the 24 hour church of elvis. Top 10 folk punk bands. The number of gutter punks who travel to various u s. Many travel by alternative means of transportation such as illegally riding freight trains freighthopping or hitchhiking.

In previous summers community members have complained of the group s aggressive panhandling and claimed the animals the travelers kept as companions were not. Folk punk gutter punks top 10 lass mejores bandas de folk punk 10 profane sass 9 jesse stewart 8 blackbird raum 7 defiance ohio 6 mischief brew 5 insomniac. Gutter punk has negative connotations he said more like a junkie kid the trains. 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.

The choice of crust punk. Said going at speeds he guesses to be around 15 miles per hour. Some travelling kids jump on moving trains d. Gutter punks are generally homeless and transient.