HOBO SHOESTRING INTERVIEW! 2 Trains Passing; Champaign, Illinois Railroad Yard & Train Switching CN
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2021
- Hobo Shoestring, America's most famous train hopper and train hopping expert! 2 trains passing as a fast Canadian National freight train passes a fast Amtrak train at the train yard in Champaign, Illinois. Train hopping and train riding questions answered here just before a CN train passed an Amtrak train. We had been watching trains in Galesburg, Illinois after leaving the hobo convention in Iowa. We stopped near the freight yard here to see the trains and stretch our legs a little. We knew the Amtrak train was coming and I was excited to see it. What were the odds that it would pass just as a freight train was passing? Well, that's what happened and I only got to see the tops of a few of the passenger cars. Lolz! I had a few more questions for Shoestring but I didn't get to ask them so maybe we will have a part 2 in the future. I know that I said the wrong city in the video when I said where we were but at least I got the state right! Illinois is a lot like Indiana to me which is a good thing since I really like Indiana. The farms make me feel at home. Make sure you check out my Iowa videos. Not only did I film the King and Queen Hobo contest but I also filmed the Iowa Traction Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. I have a few of those videos up and I am working on more of them. Railroad switching on the Iowa Traction Railway will be posted soon. I also filmed another street running video and this time it is in Ohio so look for that one soon also. Subscribe and get the notifications son.
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Hobo Shoestring wearing a crown 👑 of glory in the sky 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I was born in the late 1930s in an E. Tennessee mining camp. As the 1940s rolled around I can remember how prevalent hobo's were. In the early 1960s I lived beside a track near the Spokane River and those trains were loaded with hobo's. Your interview with the hobo was excellent. Thanks for your enjoyable videos.
Shoestring has an interesting life. Hats off to him!
Dudes hand got ran over by a train and he still rides. Absolute legend and tough as nails.
Jaw Tooth. Must really say that I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate you taking your time and all your traveling to make sure that we get to enjoy some really great videos. This video with Shoestring and the video of the election of the hobo king and queen. Was a interesting different aspect of railroading, showing a more humanity way of railroading. Also want to say that I really enjoyed your train video of the Lima, Ohio trip , that is where I live. May God’s blessing be on you and on your family.
I love when the fellow said,
" but wait, there's more." But nobody says it like you Jaw Tooth
Wish good old stobe was still around :( would love to hear in interview with him!
KFC FOREVER!!
Great interview, and loved shoestring saying "wait there's more" put a smile on my face, keeper coming Jawtooth, great video son.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brian makes a lot of people smile.
@@FabianDiazTrainsTrucksNCars You are so right.
So incredibly sad. Hobo Shoestring should have lived forever. The gentlest soul who ever walked the earth. No one lived a larger life than he did.
Happy dinner time to you great train wanderers and thank's for the memories!Great googly moogly, just look at all those Navy beans!!!! That remind's me of one of my favorite poems that I heard in my early pilgrim days,Hmm let me see I think it goes like this, First Marine found the bean,the second Marine cooked the bean, the third Marine ate the bean and blew a hole in the submarine! Truer pilgrim poetry and Wisdom I have never heard.
Even Shoestring respects Jaw Tooth's Traindar! If there is a one in the vicinity, JT knows it!!
Great interview!
😂👍
Back in the late 60's when I was in high school I had a friend who lived right next to the Rock Island tracks in Morris Illinois. I have so many great memories of walking the track for miles and climbing signal towers while the trains went under 😬. It was neat a set of switches and a siding where trains would stop to let another go by and lots of time the engineer would let us on the engine and check it out!! Can't imagine that happening nowadays. Those were sure good memories! Thank you for all your great videos and God bless 👍
We’re they the baby blue engines?
That’s a great story! Now kids just look at their phones all day……. SMH
@@jeffreygosselin1143 Typed the boomer on their cell phone. 😂
Long Live STOBE in the hearts and minds of all ✌🇺🇸👍
That was interesting! The interview, then the open boxcar! Good catch, Jaw tooth!
This new subscriber loves all things trains!
This opened my eyes to a whole new community of nomads.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Awesome, thank you! I hope you got to see both of my hobo videos where they elected the King and Queen
Long lives STOBE in the hearts and minds of all
Two (2) Stars of RUclips meet-up for an Interesting Q & A in Central Illinois. You’re both Great! 👍
Guys who like trains talk. And guys who like to watch trains watch. zthis was fantastic 👍👍👍😎🇺🇸
I would love to have a signed photo of the two legends……Shoestring and Jaw Tooth. I bet there are a lot of us out there that would.$$$ Thanks
Less than 2 hours away from my hometown Chicago. Awesome interview. His life is an awesome journey!!
I am glad this interview occurred as Hobo Shoestring passed on or about March 27,2024. Thank you Jar Tooth.
Jaw Tooth comes to Champaign, my hometown! Love it!
Awesome Interview JT with Shoestring You asked some really good questions. Awesome video as always
You guys look like you were having fun.
It's a good thing that you are taking time out to hang out with Shoestring.
History in the making.
Take care to you both and safe travels. 😎👍👌
I see your calling (mission) one day, is to interview many of our nationwide hobo heros ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A trackside meeting of the minds at a location a friend referred to as Shampoo Banana IL. You had that look like lets join Shoestring on his next adventure. That hopper train may have been headed to Lehigh IL near Kankakee where there's a huge quarry the kids and dogs equally happy to see each other on first day back at school. Here's to crossing America at "See" Level
Great chat with Shoestring. Jumping on at least once is on my bucket list. Those BLE hoppers are from my end of the yard. Wish business was better so they’d send them home.
Excellent interview with Shoestring! He's certainly seen a lot in 30 years riding the rails. Loved Chessie and friend's greeting of the girls coming home from school, too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Shoestring seems to be good Ole Joe! I watch his and your You Tubes. Keep Em coming!!!!
Thanks! Will do!
Anybody know if Shoelace has his own channel?
@@kevinmiller6380 Yes-Shoestring Hobo. You tube channel
@@kevinmiller6380 here is a link to his channel, go subscribe to him.
ruclips.net/user/TheHoboShoestring
@@JawTooth what does it mean to ride over a Hump?
I used to hang out by train yard as a kid and one time i met some kid train hoppers that were super young 11-15 maybe . That was a cool memory Circa 1987. I would love hear all the people interactions Shoestring has had over the years. A lot of people with a story to them
I like hearing hobo stories. It's a way of life for them. My dad originally was one when he met my mom. Thanks Mr JT for doing this video , it's educational.
My two favorite you tubers Jaw Tooth and Shoestring. Jaw Tooth you should do a video with Shoestring hopping trains together across the beautiful U.S.A. I believe it would go viral.
Maybe one day! I have thought about it
@@JawTooth Hey Alright I got a comment from the famous Jaw Tooth. That just brighten up my day. Love your videos.
@@WorshiptheFatherandStayclean Thanks Skeeter and have a great day and great weekend!
It's nice seeing you two hang out for a while. Good stuff!
Hey, thanks!
It is automatic thumbs up when Jartooth and Shoestring videos show up. Thanks.
I appreciate that!
So glad to watch this video again. Thanks JT.
Good interview! Truthfully, didn't realize anyone "rode the rails" anymore. More info than we probably needed regarding potty needs! Enjoyed Shoestring saying your line. Sorry to miss seeing Amtrack. We have to cross a BNSF main line anytime we leave home. In 17 years of living in North Idaho we have only seen Amtrak once because it was running hours late. It usually goes thru our area during the night both ways.
I was hoping you’d get Shoestring to say “Go ahead and start that video again son.” 😃
Next time!
That was pretty darn good! I loved the questions you asked of Shoe. Amazing answers, too! fyi: You should hear these diesels with earbuds on! WOW!
Thanks for the idea!
Been watching for a while and really enjoy the places in OH and KY where I have seen those tracks myself. Keep up the great work and stay healthy.
I just posted a video from a street running train in Franklin, Ohio
Thanks for this video. How I first found out about Shoestring is when I did a search for hobo and champaign. One of his videos from a couple years ago came up where he was waiting for a train out behind where the Salvation Army is.
Cool!
That Amtrak was either the City of Orleans, or the Illini/Saluki Local Illinois Service between Chicago and Carbondale.
This was GREAT to see the two of you together. I had my own questions that I would have also asked him. But JT, you asked some really good questions in your interview with HS and thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video Jawtooth. Two of my favorites, you and Shoestring. Hope to meet you both some day. You two need to do a few more videos together. You make a great team
We will! I will be going to Tennessee this year after my trip to Missouri
@@JawTooth Yes!!!!! Will be looking forward to it 🙂🙂🙂
Great interview with Shoestring!, I saw where he lost two of his fingers, I hate that for him, but he seems to be doing really well! I wish him the best and I love his videos! Thank you for Jaw Tooth for sharing this!!
Thanks for watching! He still plays his music on the keyboards also
@@JawTooth Wow!, he is way cool!!
Very interesting interview. Great questions! It’s so good to see you two together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@JawTooth have you and Mark considered some form of collaboration on merchandise?
As entrepreneurs of RUclips videos it would be nice to see you guys collaborate on your successes and develop an opportunity for more revenue. The two of you also have very different video styles that are interesting to viewers and a lil thinking outside the box might be a worthy endeavor. Maybe add some drone video as well. I like how you add the maps but the drone footage might enhance things a bit.
Check out some of Dirt Perfect and Let’s Dig18 as a reference to video enhancements with their content.
Interesting interview. What a life choice - travel in an unusual manner and see all of North America and Mexico :) And a gret catch on the second train - the UP engine with an access door still open :)
Thanks jaw tooth I like your videos. Hobo shoesting will be missed.
Two legends of railroading!!
Yes and I hope to film with him soon. He is getting better
That fella gets around! I just saw him on Gonagin channel.
Have a GREAT weekend Jawtooth!!
Yes, I was just watching that video. That was pretty good
Thanks Jaw Tooth, I've learned a lot about trains just recently from you and Shoestring!
Great to see my two favorite train guys on the same video
That was a really cool vid meeting Shoestring!!
Champaign, Ill isn't to far from Quincy, Ill. One of the cities of the old CB&Q line!
Q. Does a bear dump in the woods ??? A. Nobody knows but Hobo shoestring does !!! The man the legend- Hobo shoestring -so many questions -so little time ! A CN interlude is always welcome addition to the video library -Amtrack you can get anytime !! Nice mixup Jawtooth .
Regards
This is a really nice video Jaw! I very appreciate both of you :) All your stuff is great. Another thumb up For sure ;)
Thanks again!
Great seeing the two of you together! Trains forever :)
Thank you very much!
Really awesome video!!! 😁👌👍
Thank you so much 😀
@@JawTooth your welcome
I enjoyed your interview with Shoestring.... lot of fun to listen to. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
finally, the question of the washroom has been answered!! !!!! thank you!
Pretty sweet footage. For a second or 2 had me thinkin ,Clint Eastwood was making a guest appearance. When Shoestring said "wait,there's more".📽🎬 brilliant
Looked like the City of New Orleans sneaking by. Was on it back in June. Great video, by the way. Always like following both you and Shoe.
Mr. Shoestring is cool. Like the Steve McQueen of the rails. Thank you Mr. Tooth.
Thanks Joel!
Great Interview Jaw Tooth. Keep them coming.
Nothing better then Jawtooth and Shoestring Q&A and trains 🚂🚂🚂. Thanks Jawtooth. 🚂🚂
Glad you like them!
Cool interview! Never thought about train potty business, but if you gotta go.... you gotta go lol!
Nice of you to give Shoestring your famous line, Jaw Tooth.
My 2 favorite people in one video 📸 how can it get any better 👌😳🌞
there we have two legends...these guys are great love their videos
Thanks!
A couple RR classics!
Another great, and enlightening, vid, JT. One cool thing I noticed about the CN powered ore car drag was that most of the cars were B&LE .. empties of course because I could tell by lack of spring compression, but great to see B&LE still alive and well. I don't believe they have any of their own power units anymore, and I do know the Union Railroad drags their ore cars around the Pittsburgh area regularly. Great meet, and questionnaire with Shoestring. Thanks for another great vid, JT.
All Love Kind Sir. Great videos. I'm Carolina so I love the "sayins". He's the Karl Childers of trainhoppers.
Jaw Tooth, you conducted the interview like a professional appointed by a producer. I like you, Hobo Shoestring, and Wide World Of Trains. Plus, this show treated us viewers to at lest two freight trains. Railfans are just my kind of people.
Cool thanks! Railfans are usually really nice ppl
@@JawTooth You are welcome. I am in the city of New York, which the Borough of Brooklyn. That is the reason I am far away from the freight railroad. Also, I have been praying for Wide World Of Trains because I regret that he caught coronavirus. Fortunately, I do not have that pestilence. I did receive two doses of the Moderna vaccine. I wish you, your loving ones (the family), including the doggies and all the other railfans the blest of health. Thank you for writing to me.
That's funny. Interview stopped abruptly and both you guys jumped up like a kids in a candy store.
Poor Shoe didn't hear and asked which direction 👍
We had a train to catch! On video
His hearing isn't as good as mine. I was yelling to him in Galesburg and he couldn't hear me
Those were good questions.
Very cool interview 👍🏻 love trains! The dogs are always a plus 😎
EXCELLENT INTERVIEW "JT".. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN A NEWS REPORTER .. NO BS OR LIES WITH YOUR REPORT .. JUST THE FACTS ... GREAT DAY
You have the best train videos on RUclips. I like that you add commentary to your videos. You seem like a pretty cool dude. And Shoestring is also a pretty cool dude. 👍
Birds of a feather! Yep I been known to hop a train or two in my youth.
I've been watching you, Shoestring, Stobe (RIP) brave Dave and others for a long long time now, however, it still has me in awe at the length of your freight trains.
In the UK, several of those trains would jam up our entire network.
Thoughts are with all of our cousins across the pond on this 20th anniversary of September 11th (RIP).
👍😎👍🇬🇧MDS
Great video! It's so cool to see ya'll's adventures on this trip! Thanks for sharing them!
Thanks for watching!
New subscriber thanks to the hobo convention and JTs friendship with Shoestring. Good questions, good answers 👍🇺🇸🇨🇦
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching my videos!
Awesome Jaw Tooth! You and Mr. Shoestring rock!
Thanks! You too!
The folks at Britt should use an applause meter for the judging. After going over the video it appears that you had more applause volume than Bazz.
It lasted longer too but I've also heard that doesn't matter when they want someone specific like Bazz.
He's younger and seems more full of life
This is beautiful. Thxs Jawtooth
Wow - US schools start back early after the Summer break, in England it is the fist few days of September. But there again those in the public sector don't usually finish until the third week of July. Scotland take their holidays earlier though. Just another snippet of information that I get to pick up watching your videos.
Different areas of the US have different school starting and ending dates. For example, in my part of New Jersey, school begins during the second week of September and ends in the middle of June.
@@Eternal_Tech Wow, that is a long summer break!
Wisconsin passed a law back in the late 90's that prevented schools from starting before Labor Day without a waiver. Tourist businesses needed the high school kids until after Labor Day when tourism season ends.
Awesome video. Two legends together!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cool train.
Very nice.Good little interview and a couple of nice trains.
Thanks!
Getting ready to spill the beans!
Great interview thanks. Chris from England.
Nice interview with Hobo Shoestring! Too bad the northbound Canadian National freight train blocked the view of the Amtrak train. I am guessing that the Amtrak train was the City of New Orleans. The Amtrak train looked like it had some intercity passenger cars in it rather than just coaches which would be in the consist of an intrastate train running between Chicago to Champaign and/or Carbondale, Illinois.
Great and interesting video Mr. Jaw Tooth! Thank you very much!! 😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
My pleasure!
That longest trip from NY to CA he must have went right by where I live, I was gonna ask you to ask him if he ever went by my area
I will make a followup video interview because I know there will be other good questions
@@JawTooth Great Idea!
Mr. Shoestring's adventures are like that Johnny Cash song "I been everywhere man"
I could eat one of them bag of beans. It might take me a while, but fresh beans from scratch is incredible. I’d get’er done. It’s hard to imagine they could taste that much better than from a can, but they are! I like them simple, or doctored up with smoked meats, onions, garlic, and seasonings. They’re all good!
Excellent videos as always, keep up the good work. Thanks
Thanks, will do!
That Canadian National and Union Pacific lashup was a great catch! Too bad The Chief went by where you couldn't see it! I wouldn't try that hobo gig, myself!
GREAT INTERVIEW, GUYS. IT IS GREAT TO SEE YOU GUYS TOGETHER....👍✅😎
Good interview. If there was a couple questions that was really wanted to know keep them coming thanks
More to come! I will make a part 2
We love the double team. You guys need to go on a road trip!
It's nice to see hobos and foamers getting along.
JawTooth isn't a 'foamer'. He's married. LoL
@@pgronemeier the married ones can be just as bad....
@@rearspeaker6364 ..I don't think you got what I was 'implying'. Which is good. LOL
@@pgronemeier oh well, it was a 50-50 shot.........
Hey Brian...another cool and interesting Video with Hobo Shoestring. As far as the boxcar with the spilled sacks of Navy Beans...likely it was broken into I suspect.
The life of a Hobo has got to be lonely and tough. It's surely not for the weak. Sorry you missed the Amtrak train but, can promise you with great certainty if you come to St. Louis, Mo. you'll see plenty of them as well as UP and BNSF freight. The Kirkwood Station is a great spot for catching trains. Great video as always and looking forward to the next one! Safe travels!
Cool video Jawtooth. Interviewing Shoestring. And filming some trains. 👍👍👍❤️
Yes, thank you
Ya need to write that book shoestring!!! 😁