nice, i try to get into their other songs but daddy is the only one i like. piggyback is the worst. there's actually worse cars to ride but piggy is the worst one i've rode interstate. i've done it a few times and always say never again. see also coal. i don't learn......
Piggyback sucks but nowadays they got those plastic skirts or wings that make it so you can ride without being seen and it's less windy and rainy. I haven't ridden in a coal car but the coal trains I've ridden have a bunch of DPUs which is chill. I don't know if it's possible for you to get buried and unable to get out, but you do gotta be careful riding a loaded gondola. A kid in Salt Lake got cut in half by a load of rebar that shifted while moving a couple years back. It impaled him and pinned him to the wall, and the cops found him, still alive, conscious and talking, but medics couldn't save him because his body split in two and he bled out when they moved the rebar. Fucking awful.
You got any skate clips on trains? I'm hijacking this thread.
- Daewon gapping into a boxcar @2:44
- I know Rodney has some tricks into those boxcars too in Round Three.
- Apparently Scott Bourne was riding trains:
- Arizona photographer Brad Westcott is the fucking man! Never met him but we traded some mail once. Sick photos, they all make his life look like the best. I saw his zine written up in Thrasher a year or two back. Found this interview towards the bottom, scroll down hella:
http://www.streetcanoe.com/features/- This was the fun stuff I brought on a trip to Portland once.
- Once I did a kickflip in a gondola going over the continental divide in Colorado, but I was by myself so no one believed me. I did however get a clip of my friend doing a barefoot pop shove in a rolling boxcar this August, clip's gonna get used somewhere.
- Of course there's all sorts of clips with dudes skating ditches with freight going by in the background, and Brooklyn Spot in Portland (R.I.P)
@0:47
- I want to see someone wallride a train like Fred Gall wallrode that bus: