Same here!! Looks like Stobe has a lot to thank Brave Dave for, even tho Stobe's probably been doing this waaay longer and Dave's just doing it as a hobby! :-D
Was there any song he couldnt play on the piano. The world lost a great human when Jim died. I can not agree any more with him about are lousy bus system in this country, i really dont understand it. Wish i could have met him, maybe the next trip around. God bless all you nomads free spirit beautiful people. Be careful, safe and happy.
Dear Stobe. A solution to the Indy beer issue is to place the beers of your choosing in the coolers in the frozen isles beneath some basic commodities that no one really buys (frozen spinach). Continue to wonder town for 40-70 minutes then come back to the store and purchase your newly chilled beer.
My first freight hop was from Mansfield, Ohio to Indianapolis back in 1996 and Stobe's experience there was like a trip down memory lane for me. I visited that same crappy Grey Hound Station and even slept out in almost that same location next to the chainlink fence near the tracks and stadium. RIP Stobe!
At 4:00 that "metal thing" is actually build up of the brake pads. When the brakes aren't released all the way, they create friction against the wheels on the cars and eventually fall off! Its basically a melted brake pad off the car! R.I.P Stobe!!!!
Only found these vids a few days or so ago. An inspirational and talented young man. Really shit he is no longer here. Rest well Jim you're legacy lives on.
Strip away the glass, the concrete, the car, the locking door, the perceived fear, and let Stobe help us to conclude that the average human is decent, friendly and helpful, especially a human with any concept of adventure and risk.
@@EdiDrums its easy to judge people by the cover.. its hard to actually take time and get to know how someone really is despite appearance and stereotypes. Hobe humbles me.
he saw the whole country on a freight train. veteran. college graduate. he left a really impressive body of work for us to enjoy. wish there were more. RIP.
@@hookshot55 There has to be more, he often said he had dozens of unreleased stuff sitting ready to put out. Additionally he did a whole east coast trip before his passing. I still hold out hope we can see it someday.
Man I miss this guy. At least he went out traveling. Sad it was ironically by his sworn enemies, AmKrap. Such a rad dude, rad pianist, rad mind, rad heart, with balls like a rad rhino. RIP Mr. Attack.
What a gentle soul.I just found these videos.I can't stop watching them...God Bless the family..What fond memories they have of their son... Thank you....
Wow, Great videos- He talks and shows us things like if we're all his buddies traveling side by side with him- Makes us want to continue the journey and see more- It's great how he tries to make the best out of every situation and how he shares the do's and don'ts with his audience- Sad we lost this peaceful drifter. RIP Stobe-
The darkest hours of the night will forever remind me of this legend. I hope his friends and family know how much he is loved still. Still watch him reguraly in 2020. RIP One Kenobie 🍻
@@navarone52 no, he would of kicked his butt off the property, like every other responsible rail worker. They don’t like these clowns trespassing all over through their rail yards, and how stobe died..., is exactly why they don’t want people trespassing on their trains and rail yards. You people encouraging this nonsense, it’s pathetic and ridiculous. But go ahead, encourage all you want, getting your jollies from someone endangering their lives, well done!
Everything about Honey Brown beer - the name, the logo, the font, the colour scheme - makes it seem cosy and delicious. I've never tried it, though, and I doubt they sell it in the UK. Stobie, meanwhile, has a talent for making any drink seem succulent though. Steel Reserve... Coors... and even Icehouse wouldn't melt in his mouth - although the frozen ravioli had to.
Stobe got me hooked on Fat tire beer when he drank it in anther episode. Now I seek out nothing but higher quality beer always. I've also been non stop looking for Honey Brown beer but can't find it anywhere here in Long Island at any of the craft stores
Honey Brown is delicious....it leaves a residue on your lips well after you've finished the beer that you only notice if you lick your lips....so good...
Just came across Stobe the Hobo videos a few days ago an watched them all. I wish I had came across him sooner. Makes me want to meet a few folks an ride across the U.S.A. RIP Stone he is hunkered down for good 👍.
OMG I love this! You are my hero....I live out west and I've always wanted to ride a freight train, but I've never had the balls....YET! You have inspired me to up my adventure game!
"Have a good rest of your life!" that farewell brought tears to my eye, fly high Stobe-canobe. Hope you catch that perfect gondola or grainer, with buckets of chicken and kegs of cold brew.
Thank you for blessing us with a new episode! That abrupt weather change was really interesting. I think those vending machines give you the price if you punch in the letter number combo of the item. We have a bunch of those on my college campus and that's how they usually work.
The thing that makes me upset. Stobe the Hobo, should have just gotten a job working for a rail line. He knew all the terminology, he loved trains or he could have done something creative, related to the train industry or something related. I do not know the guy. But after watching a dozen videos. It is too bad such a talented guy, on the piano and such an interesting person is gone. RIP Stobe. "In the dark of the night."
Stobe would have been a great employee three days of the month and gone the other twenty-eight. He was simply one of those guys who has to keep moving.
even though he has passed on from this earthly plane, he lives on through these videos. i've been watching for a while each day these past few years, and he feels like a friend of mine. crazy that all these years after he left us, i can still live vicariously through him via these excellent documents of his life that he so carefully prepared. rest easy, buddy!
Nothing has changed for me. I still feel a sense of commonality with Jim. Something about the lonesome travels and enjoyment in content, simple adventures
there is a hobo trick if there is no cold beer in the store, just grab a pack and put it in a ice cream freeze in the shop, walk around for a while pretending to shop, then go get the cold beer and pay for it.
yeah i think you might be right! they cut out a damaged section of track and clamp a fixture to hold the two cut sections together, then essentially pool-weld the gap with molten metal... the excess that overflows or seeps out of the fixture hardens quickly and gets knocked off and sometimes looks like that thing they found
Good job Jim, love seeing the beers and prices + the architecture around the states since im from another country. Maybe people dump those turkeys ? Surly not. Anyway nice work :)
Is stobe's channel blowing up? idk i just started watching like 2days ago and thease videos are awsome. Who else is new? over 3k views in like 10 hours. pretty nice! Thanks for thease awsome videos stobe and for risking trespassing tickets for us!
Omg. More Collective Soul.! That's So Cool.! I really wish I could have heard him play more on the piano. There are only a select few who have truely been Collective Soul fans right from their beginnings.! Awesome.
Man, when I wanna just sit back and chill, I watch HOBE! Sound track is a Plus! Wish there was more... so I restart his vlogs from the beginning! Nice to see he is getting more and more subs!
love the vids im a trucker and have traveled 32 out of 48 but all east coast and ur way is the better way to travel. now im dedicated to va and nc and go hoem every night if u get put this way u should ride the great 611 i was chasing it on my motorcycle sunday out of roanoke syay safe out their n drink a beer for me
In Indianapolis the flit to Cincinnati or or Louisville is at the Indianapolis Amtrak /Greyhound bus station. The line to Cincinnati is CSX all the way but however the line to Louisville is the Louisville & Indiana railroad.
Stobe ; I just watch your Xmas special with your mom at the end . Reminded me of my mom when I was younger . I'd roll into town worn out on a road trip on my Harley , she'd always have a hug , hot meal and a warm bed for me . God bless mothers , they love ya no matter what .
Very brave and experienced dude. Police state made simple human activities illegal in US. Countries south of the border still enjoining free hopping on cargo trains without harassment.
Yep, as a long time (former) Illinois resident I can tell you 'Indiana is different'. It's challenging to explain it, you have to see the Hosier state in action to really appreciate it. Backwards, that's the best way to describe it. So it doesn't surprise me that there would be a store in Indiana with a ton of beer on sale & none of it cold. Things like that...Indiana.
If I have ever regretted being Canadian it is now because I have no right to tease to a coastie for wearing a USMC shirt. That said my only military experience is being in the Canadian Rangers, a bunch that is similarly mocked here in the Great White North. All teasing aside, Much love Mr. Stobe. It's nice to see you on the rails again and I sure am grateful for the time and effort you put into these videos that let us tag along with you on your journeys. Thinking of you as I trying Martini Bianco for the for time. 1L is $10.50 CAD and 15% and is the reason for this rambling comment lol. Wishing you peace, happiness and true freedom on your quest to the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
At 4:00 they are asking what the piece of steel is. That is actually material build up from the metal coming off the wheels during braking over several years. This was more prevalent when they were using cast iron brake shoes. You would find these piles stuck on the bottoms of railcars right above the wheels. Once they get too heavy they fall off.
Yo Jimmy, it was cool to see you made it through St. Louis. east STL is the getto but many years back it was a thriving city, my father grew up there and i lived there til I was about 6 years old until we moved for obvious reasons. I was hoping that you would have made your way around the city some there are a lot of great things to see here and plenty of cold beer of all kinds. Yes Indy kinda sucks too, oh well great video keep em comin, safe travels my man, Peace Out.
So many of Stobe's videos have ads and Stobe's family had better be getting any money this makes!!! I would be pissed to learn some schmuck or A hole was stealing it! Cheers
Really enjoying your channel Jim!. Good videos, very interesting. I live in Utah and enjoyed the video of when you were here, and yes it does suck trying to get liquor here! Haha. Thanks for the great videos!
That piece of metal at 4;02 is some grinding dist that built up on the rail grinding car (machine).When they have a rail grinding train to clean up the edges and ball of the rail..Those things fall off the guards that keeps the sparks from starting fires along the tracks.
theres a bus about 2 miles from the yard to downtown on that main drag its kinda rad that theres a walmart and nothing but stores all within 500 ft of any part of the yard
the avon yard is 500 ft from the shopping/food strip and the bus is a few mile east on IN-36. you were in prime territory and didn't know it. but yeah, no cold beer ruins it.
These videos are one of the few non- bullshit things that keep me going. I have been looking for a job and its a bitch, takes money to outfit my hobo dream initially anyway. I'll get out there or die trying. I will rubber tramp and require my affairs be paid down enough to proceed. Recently discovered this lifestyle and am all for it. I do not want bad credit or any of that nonsense, I too want a place to come back to, rat-hole albeit that it is... I am through with loading my future-self with debt, I need some GD adventure!!! You help a lot of people Jim!!!
That building is called an interlocking tower and would have been used to watch over the diamonds as a safety measure. Odds are that the tower you saw was still in use, but only for storing signaling equipment, however they often have cameras around them. Stay safe, and have fun.
I recently found your channel and binge-watched everything on it. You make great content Stobe! The vids are very entertaining and you make a great host. Keep it up man!
The line to Cincinnati was right in town right by the main station where Stobe video-ed those freight cars on the viaduct...It was in a dense city urban zone so Stobe bailed and took the bus because he saw it was too difficult a tactical maneuver...If you look on this link the branch Stobe was looking for was the switch that goes SouthEast over Interstate 70: www.google.com/maps/@39.764082,-86.150443,1107m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
my moms best friend went to high school with Dick Yuengling of yuenggling family beer fame here in Pottsville Pa. Americas oldest brewery and the yuengling family still live here. R.I.P. Stobe , Jim . Have a cold one with the angel's now !
Still finding some of Jim's videos I haven't seen yet. Indy my home town. They used to have state run liquor stores that sold cold beer but they were closed on Sundays of course and they wouldn't sell even warm beer in the grocery stores on Sundays. The bars though were a good place to buy cold beer 7 days a week. Most would sell you cases or 12 packs for just a couple bucks more than the stores as a carry out. In my wayward youth I used to get around town hotel shuttle and rental car company shuttle hopping using the convention center or the airport as a hub since the bus system sucked. The Indy airport though is on the far westside of town and one could get stranded there overnight if you tried to catch a shuttle out of there too late. RIP Stobe.
I've butt welded every rail,joint and defect between Armstrong Ontario Canada to Winnipeg Manitiba on the Allanwater and Reddit subs and I would have been lucky for you to have rode across my seemless and smooth welds.
I cant stop watching these vids...
That's where i'm at man, Started with Brave Dave, made my way here, Loving this content
Same , cant stand Brave Dave but his video did lead me to Stobe. I'm stuck here now , can't leave haha
Same here!! Looks like Stobe has a lot to thank Brave Dave for, even tho Stobe's probably been doing this waaay longer and Dave's just doing it as a hobby! :-D
I did the exact same thing. Only watched brave Daves trainhopping series.
check out hobo mud and hobo shoestring !!!!! :)
Was there any song he couldnt play on the piano. The world lost a great human when Jim died. I can not agree any more with him about are lousy bus system in this country, i really dont understand it. Wish i could have met him, maybe the next trip around. God bless all you nomads free spirit beautiful people. Be careful, safe and happy.
He definitely could play that piano I didn't know half those songs could even be played on a piano he definitely was a talented man
I would have given so much to have spent a day chatting with Stobe
Love from Jefferson Texas
Dear Stobe. A solution to the Indy beer issue is to place the beers of your choosing in the coolers in the frozen isles beneath some basic commodities that no one really buys (frozen spinach). Continue to wonder town for 40-70 minutes then come back to the store and purchase your newly chilled beer.
Great idea
very clever
This might be the most helpful tip I have ever heard on youtube!
He could have have even left for like an hour or so and did other things and came back and there's no way anyone touched it lol
My first freight hop was from Mansfield, Ohio to Indianapolis back in 1996 and Stobe's experience there was like a trip down memory lane for me. I visited that same crappy Grey Hound Station and even slept out in almost that same location next to the chainlink fence near the tracks and stadium. RIP Stobe!
At 4:00 that "metal thing" is actually build up of the brake pads. When the brakes aren't released all the way, they create friction against the wheels on the cars and eventually fall off! Its basically a melted brake pad off the car! R.I.P Stobe!!!!
Only found these vids a few days or so ago. An inspirational and talented young man. Really shit he is no longer here. Rest well Jim you're legacy lives on.
That James was a pretty decent guy, You always seem to meet such nice and friendly people along your travels.
thaghost909 yeah I have good luck
Strip away the glass, the concrete, the car, the locking door, the perceived fear, and let Stobe help us to conclude that the average human is decent, friendly and helpful, especially a human with any concept of adventure and risk.
@@EdiDrums its easy to judge people by the cover.. its hard to actually take time and get to know how someone really is despite appearance and stereotypes. Hobe humbles me.
This channel has grown so much since he passed.. Thanks so much for keeping it going. RIP Stobe! We miss you so much!
he saw the whole country on a freight train. veteran. college graduate. he left a really impressive body of work for us to enjoy. wish there were more. RIP.
@@hookshot55 There has to be more, he often said he had dozens of unreleased stuff sitting ready to put out. Additionally he did a whole east coast trip before his passing. I still hold out hope we can see it someday.
@@tvd1188You won’t see it, he said he had about a years worth of content.
Jim Stobe. The legend!
"Downright barbaric" Lolololololol Ever so charming Stobe..RIP mate
"that's preposterous"
Man I miss this guy. At least he went out traveling. Sad it was ironically by his sworn enemies, AmKrap. Such a rad dude, rad pianist, rad mind, rad heart, with balls like a rad rhino. RIP Mr. Attack.
Nailed it, really sucks that he basically needed a ‘job’ and to ‘conform’ but his TH-cam ends up successful with 50k subscribers now.
What a nice kid that escorted you around.
Yea that kid was cool af. Always wondered if he ever found and watched this episode which Stobe included him in.
He commented on the previous Stobe video when Stobe was still here, wonder if he’s heard. Lmfao love how Stobe just slept by that tree.
I always thought it was a bit harsh comparing young james to jack black, james seems quite a likeable chap 🙂
What a gentle soul.I just found these videos.I can't stop watching them...God Bless the family..What fond memories they have of their son... Thank you....
Wow,
Great videos- He talks and shows us things like if we're all his buddies traveling side by side with him- Makes us want to continue the journey and see more- It's great how he tries to make the best out of every situation and how he shares the do's and don'ts with his audience- Sad we lost this peaceful drifter.
RIP Stobe-
"Have a good rest of your life" jesus. RIP Stobe. Wish i found ya sooner.
The darkest hours of the night will forever remind me of this legend.
I hope his friends and family know how much he is loved still.
Still watch him reguraly in 2020.
RIP One Kenobie 🍻
That phrase often pops into my head when I'm working nightshifts.. RIP Stobe
So bummed he’s gone, as a former rail worker in the upper Midwest I could have directed Stobe which way to go.
No he would of directed you. ;)
Your a lier dude!!!!!
Jeff Heckelsmiller You’re just assuming that bud. There’s no need for that kind of toxicity.
@@navarone52 no, he would of kicked his butt off the property, like every other responsible rail worker. They don’t like these clowns trespassing all over through their rail yards, and how stobe died..., is exactly why they don’t want people trespassing on their trains and rail yards.
You people encouraging this nonsense, it’s pathetic and ridiculous.
But go ahead, encourage all you want, getting your jollies from someone endangering their lives, well done!
@@Iwilldestroyyoo My comment was in jest but thanks for the dissertation, Karen.
Everything about Honey Brown beer - the name, the logo, the font, the colour scheme - makes it seem cosy and delicious. I've never tried it, though, and I doubt they sell it in the UK. Stobie, meanwhile, has a talent for making any drink seem succulent though. Steel Reserve... Coors... and even Icehouse wouldn't melt in his mouth - although the frozen ravioli had to.
😆😂🤣 So, so true bro!!!
Awesome comment. RIP stobe...
Stobe got me hooked on Fat tire beer when he drank it in anther episode. Now I seek out nothing but higher quality beer always. I've also been non stop looking for Honey Brown beer but can't find it anywhere here in Long Island at any of the craft stores
Honey Brown is delicious....it leaves a residue on your lips well after you've finished the beer that you only notice if you lick your lips....so good...
@@CaptainSkidmark74 yeah it's ok but a little too much caramel for me..
I have been using Jim’s videos to fall asleep nightly for the past two years.
I hope the young Jack Black is doing okay.
It would have been an honour to meet up with Stobe but like many of us, we discovered him too late.
Just came across Stobe the Hobo videos a few days ago an watched them all. I wish I had came across him sooner. Makes me want to meet a few folks an ride across the U.S.A. RIP Stone he is hunkered down for good 👍.
I'm down.... We could start a new branch of KFC or start a new train gang all together. I'm in CINCY
SURE DO MISS THIS GUY.
R.I.P. STOBE
OMG I love this! You are my hero....I live out west and I've always wanted to ride a freight train, but I've never had the balls....YET! You have inspired me to up my adventure game!
Any day I ride with you I watch you video
How about you ride with me in my truck ?
She was booked on VEgas
i like to book her
Indeed. Surely I drove far into stobes vids . I also seek my adventures.
RIP Jim Stobe!
How did he pass away?
So terribly wrong and sad. I enjoyed his video's. When did this happen?
jason9022 proof?
"Have a good rest of your life!" that farewell brought tears to my eye, fly high Stobe-canobe. Hope you catch that perfect gondola or grainer, with buckets of chicken and kegs of cold brew.
He is playing Tim of your life by Green Day at the begining
@@Ironman829 you are right, I had not noticed. His music is haunting!
love sitting back in a dark room with stobie on my tv. much love brother, stay safe and God bless.
Thank you for blessing us with a new episode! That abrupt weather change was really interesting.
I think those vending machines give you the price if you punch in the letter number combo of the item. We have a bunch of those on my college campus and that's how they usually work.
Darian Marshall he died
The thing that makes me upset. Stobe the Hobo, should have just gotten a job working for a rail line. He knew all the terminology, he loved trains or he could have done something creative, related to the train industry or something related. I do not know the guy. But after watching a dozen videos. It is too bad such a talented guy, on the piano and such an interesting person is gone. RIP Stobe. "In the dark of the night."
Paul's CCNA how did he die?
He got smoked by a Amtrak on a bridge with no where to run
You don't get it. That's ok. To be expected. Some of us have no desire to be " employed." See The Big Lebowski. Lol.
He was doing what he loved to do. Gotta respect that. It took a lot of bravery to say fuck the norm.
Stobe would have been a great employee three days of the month and gone the other twenty-eight. He was simply one of those guys who has to keep moving.
So prophetic stobe talking about his big, bulky army bag and how much he hates it
If you find a vending machine with no prices, just enter the letter/number of what you want, and the price will display on the screen
i love you (no hobo)
Do you even Rift Lol
even though he has passed on from this earthly plane, he lives on through these videos. i've been watching for a while each day these past few years, and he feels like a friend of mine. crazy that all these years after he left us, i can still live vicariously through him via these excellent documents of his life that he so carefully prepared. rest easy, buddy!
Nothing has changed for me. I still feel a sense of commonality with Jim. Something about the lonesome travels and enjoyment in content, simple adventures
there is a hobo trick if there is no cold beer in the store, just grab a pack and put it in a ice cream freeze in the shop, walk around for a while pretending to shop, then go get the cold beer and pay for it.
the thing is we like watchin beer & drinking trains
This man was a legend 💙🙏🏻 sad I never met him and just recently found his channel
Would u have banged him ?
@@daveyboy_ weird question weirdo. Get help!
I believe that metal thing is remains of thermite welding!
yeah i think you might be right! they cut out a damaged section of track and clamp a fixture to hold the two cut sections together, then essentially pool-weld the gap with molten metal... the excess that overflows or seeps out of the fixture hardens quickly and gets knocked off and sometimes looks like that thing they found
Your videos were awesome. Your piano playing was amazing. And you drank beers like it was your job. RIP Stobe. Greatly missed.
Stobie on the 4 way diamond .... That shack is a lookout for the diamond... RIP Jim....
I see your subscriber base going up, now 4.9K :)
Stobe finally discovered the embarrassment of a public transit system that IndyGo is
Good job Jim, love seeing the beers and prices + the architecture around the states since im from another country. Maybe people dump those turkeys ? Surly not. Anyway nice work :)
Is stobe's channel blowing up? idk i just started watching like 2days ago and thease videos are awsome. Who else is new? over 3k views in like 10 hours. pretty nice! Thanks for thease awsome videos stobe and for risking trespassing tickets for us!
Omg. More Collective Soul.! That's So Cool.! I really wish I could have heard him play more on the piano. There are only a select few who have truely been Collective Soul fans right from their beginnings.! Awesome.
Man, when I wanna just sit back and chill, I watch HOBE! Sound track is a Plus!
Wish there was more... so I restart his vlogs from the beginning! Nice to see he is getting more and more subs!
Stobe, you are awesome! Love watching your vids and livin the life through you!
love the vids im a trucker and have traveled 32 out of 48 but all east coast and ur way is the better way to travel. now im dedicated to va and nc and go hoem every night if u get put this way u should ride the great 611 i was chasing it on my motorcycle sunday out of roanoke syay safe out their n drink a beer for me
You seem fun haha
I love stobes interaction with mini jack black. I wish I had met the man. RIP big bro
In Indianapolis the flit to Cincinnati or or Louisville is at the Indianapolis Amtrak /Greyhound bus station. The line to Cincinnati is CSX all the way but however the line to Louisville is the Louisville & Indiana railroad.
Welcome to Hendricks county, no buses, no taxi, no beer on Sundays.
Mike Pence mike pence.
Stobe ; I just watch your Xmas special with your mom at the end . Reminded me of my mom when I was younger . I'd roll into town worn out on a road trip on my Harley , she'd always have a hug , hot meal and a warm bed for me . God bless mothers , they love ya no matter what .
Robert Rosicki i agreee they are a good asset to have
Harleys are stupid
RIP James "Stobe" Stobie October 23, 1984-November 8, 2017. You will be missed.
Feels like Christmas everytime I see there's an upload. I could watch hours of this stuff Jim- i've watched your vids over and over many times
Very brave and experienced dude. Police state made simple human activities illegal in US. Countries south of the border still enjoining free hopping on cargo trains without harassment.
Ben Mak agreed. america needs reset
Yo Stobe been binge watching all your videos, keep up the good content man ❤
Wooohoo Stobe you're awesome!! Me and my Fiancé love watching your videos together!
NeptuneBoy Enl and what do you do while watching them. shall I put some Al green on for you?
@@hobestobe ahahaha mhmmm you better
So good as always Stobe. Safe travels man.
A new stobe video Holy shit
Stobe the hobo u got a good hobby I like ur videos
Yep, as a long time (former) Illinois resident I can tell you 'Indiana is different'. It's challenging to explain it, you have to see the
Hosier state in action to really appreciate it. Backwards, that's the best way to describe it. So it doesn't surprise me that there would be a store in Indiana with a ton of beer on sale & none of it cold. Things like that...Indiana.
If I have ever regretted being Canadian it is now because I have no right to tease to a coastie for wearing a USMC shirt. That said my only military experience is being in the Canadian Rangers, a bunch that is similarly mocked here in the Great White North. All teasing aside, Much love Mr. Stobe. It's nice to see you on the rails again and I sure am grateful for the time and effort you put into these videos that let us tag along with you on your journeys. Thinking of you as I trying Martini Bianco for the for time. 1L is $10.50 CAD and 15% and is the reason for this rambling comment lol. Wishing you peace, happiness and true freedom on your quest to the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
smallpaul is small ramble on. hey I think I will use ramblin man in a new episode
At 4:00 they are asking what the piece of steel is. That is actually material build up from the metal coming off the wheels during braking over several years. This was more prevalent when they were using cast iron brake shoes. You would find these piles stuck on the bottoms of railcars right above the wheels. Once they get too heavy they fall off.
That tower is where the front of EBD to Indy would double back.
good point agreed
Yo Jimmy, it was cool to see you made it through St. Louis. east STL is the getto but many years back it was a thriving city, my father grew up there and i lived there til I was about 6 years old until we moved for obvious reasons. I was hoping that you would have made your way around the city some there are a lot of great things to see here and plenty of cold beer of all kinds. Yes Indy kinda sucks too, oh well great video keep em comin, safe travels my man, Peace Out.
I'm learning so much about the USA from your movies. Love your work. RIP Stobe the Hobo.
R.I.P. Stobe! thanks for opening my eyes.
Missing you, Stobe....
So many of Stobe's videos have ads and Stobe's family had better be getting any money this makes!!! I would be pissed to learn some schmuck or A hole was stealing it! Cheers
Really enjoying your channel Jim!. Good videos, very interesting. I live in Utah and enjoyed the video of when you were here, and yes it does suck trying to get liquor here! Haha. Thanks for the great videos!
Ron Padgett only 3 stores in all salt lake city
I know man, It's ridiculous. You can buy beer in the grocery stores, but it's only 3.2 % lol.... so sad. Lol!
That piece of metal at 4;02 is some grinding dist that built up on the rail grinding car (machine).When they have a rail grinding train to clean up the edges and ball of the rail..Those things fall off the guards that keeps the sparks from starting fires along the tracks.
Hey Stobe have you thought about checking out the Great Lakes region? I'd love to see what you think about South Bend/the lower peninsula of Michigan.
99 cent icehouse tallcans! those were the days. miss ya stobe...
Dude I want to be just like you when I get older... off the grid and good booze... trains, hick hikeing... so cool..
theres a bus about 2 miles from the yard to downtown on that main drag its kinda rad that theres a walmart and nothing but stores all within 500 ft of any part of the yard
Dasha Duff never getting off again there
the avon yard is 500 ft from the shopping/food strip and the bus is a few mile east on IN-36. you were in prime territory and didn't know it. but yeah, no cold beer ruins it.
man the music in your vids is awesome... time of your life in a minor scale on piano blew my mind
thanks a ton. all the variations of that one really fell into place easily for some reason
I smile every time I re - watch this episode !
opening tune "I hope yo have the time of your life".
Are you 'avin a laugh? Is he 'avin a laugh? good ear son
@@hobestobe
I know you'll never read this bro but I love you homie. I pray we can hang out once I get there, my dude.
kinda like wandering through a Hopper painting,
Can't look away man! Compelling channel- can't wait for the next episode!
rottenrobbie7 sickkkk glad u like
These videos are one of the few non- bullshit things that keep me going. I have been looking for a job and its a bitch, takes money to outfit my hobo dream initially anyway. I'll get out there or die trying.
I will rubber tramp and require my affairs be paid down enough to proceed.
Recently discovered this lifestyle and am all for it. I do not want bad credit or any of that nonsense, I too want a place to come back to, rat-hole albeit that it is... I am through with loading my future-self with debt, I need some GD adventure!!!
You help a lot of people Jim!!!
pau a appreciate the nice words
That building is called an interlocking tower and would have been used to watch over the diamonds as a safety measure. Odds are that the tower you saw was still in use, but only for storing signaling equipment, however they often have cameras around them. Stay safe, and have fun.
anoymous joe good info thanks
Sad when he said goodbye to James.
I recently found your channel and binge-watched everything on it. You make great content Stobe! The vids are very entertaining and you make a great host. Keep it up man!
That chunk of slag he had in Brians hand was more than likely from a rail grinder.
Looks like grinding slag to me...
New patreon here. Your videos are awesome! I enjoy the piano accompaniment a lot as well.
Story_Telling thanks for signing up. new stobe music channel soon
Let me know if you ever come back through Spokane or Rathdrum!
yea learning so much about america and how trains operate across this great land. RIP brother and free beer.
Awesome videos man. Keep up the good work.
I've wanted to hop freights since I was a kid, I'm 36 now. Thanks for the vlog
This burger king got robbed twice in one night ahahahaha
The line to Cincinnati was right in town right by the main station where Stobe video-ed those freight cars on the viaduct...It was in a dense city urban zone so Stobe bailed and took the bus because he saw it was too difficult a tactical maneuver...If you look on this link the branch Stobe was looking for was the switch that goes SouthEast over Interstate 70: www.google.com/maps/@39.764082,-86.150443,1107m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Still watching Stobe's videos occasionally. :(
At 1:07 that building is an old interlocking tower.
Thank God ur back!!!
i would like to see ya u work your way through and do your magic in the North Platte terminal ..whatever that thing is!!
R Neu I should do that one. we will see
my moms best friend went to high school with Dick Yuengling of yuenggling family beer fame here in Pottsville Pa. Americas oldest brewery and the yuengling family still live here. R.I.P. Stobe , Jim . Have a cold one with the angel's now !
Still finding some of Jim's videos I haven't seen yet. Indy my home town. They used to have state run liquor stores that sold cold beer but they were closed on Sundays of course and they wouldn't sell even warm beer in the grocery stores on Sundays. The bars though were a good place to buy cold beer 7 days a week. Most would sell you cases or 12 packs for just a couple bucks more than the stores as a carry out. In my wayward youth I used to get around town hotel shuttle and rental car company shuttle hopping using the convention center or the airport as a hub since the bus system sucked. The Indy airport though is on the far westside of town and one could get stranded there overnight if you tried to catch a shuttle out of there too late. RIP Stobe.
Thanks so much for this man, much love.
I've butt welded every rail,joint and defect between Armstrong Ontario Canada to Winnipeg Manitiba on the Allanwater and Reddit subs and I would have been lucky for you to have rode across my seemless and smooth welds.
You should head to Pittsburgh one of these days! many things to see and do!
Corey R its not really a stop so its a bit inconvenient