riding the rails

But a serious challenge to the success of billions in investments is ensuring that customers feel they are safe riding the rails.

Jim Tully was a “road kid,” riding the rails, and washed up in Hollywood, where he worked, in various capacities, for Chaplin, of whom he wrote a short unauthorized biography.

But three days of riding the rails proved them mostly wrong.

Although there are historical examples of a homeless migration narrative — think of families moving in mass during the Dust Bowl or of men “riding the rails” during the Great Depression — today, there’s a lot of data that shows that the vast majority, typically about 60% to 70%, of King County’s homeless population say their last stable home was here, in King County.

There was a predictable pattern to riding the rails: People got on, changed into their train clothes, ate food they had packed and slept at basically the same time, in easy consensus.