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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2006, the most decorated hobo in United States history died. Before you (mistakenly) connect the word hobo to the state of being homeless, consider the origins of the word: migrant workers who ...