Bummper - American slang meaning of one who was a hobo, tramp, vagrant, or beggar, a person who lived by sponging off of other people. Bumpers - Couplings between freight cars upon which hobos sometimes ride if there are no empties on the train.
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Nowadays a tramp would be more commonly called a homeless person. Vagrant is, at least in British English, someone homeless - especially a beggar.
Called “bulls,” these unofficially deputized men are hired by various railroad companies to protect trains from the shady characters of the farthest outreaches of the vast American West. These are not law-abiding citizens. Nor are they well-trained, like the Pinkerton agents.
Fare evasion or fare dodging is the act of travelling on public transport without paying by deliberately not buying a required ticket to travel (having had the chance to do so).
The frog, also known as the common crossing (or V-rail in Australian terminology), is the crossing point of two rails. This can be assembled out of several appropriately cut and bent pieces of rail or can be a single casting of manganese steel.
cowcatcher (plural cowcatchers) (rail transport, principally US) The V-shaped device on the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle) shaped so as to push objects on the tracks out of the way, to prevent major damage to the train.
Graham. Maurice W. Graham (June 3, 1917 – November 18, 2006), also known as Steam Train Maury, was the five-time holder of the title King of the Hobos, and was later known as Patriarch of the Hobos.