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Getting on and getting off are not the same
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This photo from the early 1950s shows a freight train similar to the one Frank Jeler Jr. tried to hitch a free ride on. - photo by Richard Kindig / Nps.Gov
This excerpt from “Frogdancer”, Arma native Frank Jeler Jr.’s memoir, speaks to learning the hard way that hopping on a freight is a lot easier than hopping off. — J.T.K. One summer (1950-51), Paul Alexander and I hiked south of Arma to an older strip pit area to fish.